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How a couple saved $45,000 to join Great Resignation and take mini-retirement
Just about a calendar year back, Claire Zhu and Peter Ovendorf quit their finance positions and gave up their apartment in Charlotte, North Carolina. They have not let dust on their suitcases settle at any time considering the fact that. They’ve bopped in all places from Egypt and Jordan to Thailand and the Czech Republic. “From the outdoors wanting in, it would seem like this was these types of a crazy, rash final decision,” Zhu, 27, tells Fortune. “But actually, it was very thought out mainly because we’re equally fairly threat averse.” Their terrific journey commenced in 2020 when Zhu started out to recognize finance wasn’t for her. “It was…
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Aman Resorts to join Ritz-Carlton, Four Seasons in getting into luxury cruising
Add Aman to the list of high-end resort companies getting into the cruise business. The Russian-owned hospitality brand is joining forces with a branch of Saudi Arabia’s investment fund to launch an all-suite, yacht-like luxury cruise vessel by 2026, according to the shipyard that will build the ship. Italy’s T. Mariotti shipyard on Friday announced that a joint venture between Aman and the Saudi investment entity known as Cruise Saudi had signed a contract with the shipyard for the construction of the as-yet-unnamed vessel. For more cruise news, guides and tips, sign up for TPG’s cruise newsletter. T. Mariotti offered few details of what the ship would be like other…