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2025 Travel: Luxury Resorts Prioritize Privacy and Being Worth the Expense

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The high-end market is responding to three plagues in travel: overpriced, overcrowded and overheated, as in global warming, said Jack Ezon, who runs the bespoke travel agency Embark Beyond , based in New York. For those hoping to avoid soaring temperatures, openings in cooler climates also offer seclusion.

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Travel 2025: ‘Friend-Finding Tours,’ Private Islands and a Mixed Bag of Prices

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Jump to: Credit… Miriam Martincic A recent Booking.com global survey of 31,000 travelers found that 71 percent of respondents want to leave the places they visit better than when they arrived. For those hoping to avoid soaring temperatures, openings in cooler climates also offer seclusion. Now, they want to justify the expense.

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This Rice University Professor Developed Cancer-Detection Technology

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Richards-Kortum is a professor of bioengineering at Rice University , in Houston, and codirector of the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies , which is developing affordable medical equipment for underresourced hospitals. Maria Oden , also a bioengineering professor, founded the Rice360 Institute for Global Health Technologies.

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