by Walter
14. October 2009 18:27
Tel Aviv, the second largest city in Israel
is its economic hub and financial center. The city has often been
described as a ‘flourishing technological center’ for Tel Aviv has a
booming high-tech industry which is an important and influential center
for research and development. The city and its satellite towns of
Herzliya and Petah Tikya are home to countless domestic startups as
well as local and international venture capitalist firms and it is
estimated that Israel has more publicly traded companies on the Nasdaq
stock market than any other country outside North America. Further it
is believed that these Israeli start-ups attract more venture capital
funding than any country outside North America so much so that the city
of Tel Aviv is often described as ‘Silicon Wadi.’ Tel Aviv’s high tech
industry today contributes greatly to the country’s export sector and
technologies developed here can be found in the products of various
multi-national companies in the spheres of computers, information
systems, medicine, optics, consumer goods and software.
Aside from being a technological hot spot, Tel Aviv
is also an important financial center of the Middle East and the city
is home to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) which is Israel’s only
stock exchange. The TASE which has a listing of more than 600 publicly
traded companies is located on a street called Ahad Ha’am which is
situated within the environs of Tel Aviv’s ‘White City’. Tel Aviv’s
White City was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 and it
consists of a cluster of nearly 4000 Bauhaus or International Style
buildings which were built in Tel Aviv in the 1930’s by German Jewish
architects who immigrated to Tel Aviv in an effort to escape the Nazis.
In addition to finance and technology, Tel Aviv also has several other
industries like chemical processing, textiles and food manufacturing.
Moreover Tel Aviv is also located in close proximity to the city of
Ramat Gan which hosts the world’s largest diamond exchange and
functions as a Mecca for the global gem dealing community.
All this varied and bustling economic activity has firmly established
Tel Aviv as an important center on the global business traveler’s map
and this lively city receives a constant flow of business travelers
all year long who access the city via its excellent Ben-Guiron
International Airport. To meet the needs of these business travelers,
Tel Aviv is equipped a wide variety of business hotels like the David
Intercontinental, The Tel Aviv Hilton and The Sheraton City Tower
Tel Aviv is also known to be one of the most ‘connected’ cities of the
Middle East and consequently most four star and five star hotels in the
city are equipped with business lounges that offer several business
essential services like free Wi-Fi, faxing and printing services,
typing and basic translating services which are invaluable for the
business traveler. Additionally Tel Aviv is also equipped with several
free Wi-Fi hotspots which can be found at city parks, restaurants,
shopping centers, gas stations and outlets of coffee shop chains like
Arcaffè, Aroma, Coffee-To-Go and Ilan's.
However it’s not all work and no play in Tel Aviv as the city is
renowned for its pulsating nightlife which is concentrated on its many
lively bars and restaurants that line its beach front. Additionally the
city is also equipped with theaters, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the
Tel Aviv Opera House and the Israeli Philharmonic Orchestra all of
which provide a welcome diversion for business travelers looking for a
chance to unwind and relax after a day of hard negotiations.
If you need to travel to Tel Aviv on business,
your journey from the US will almost always involve a long haul flight
with a possible layover in Europe. The only way you can hope to cope
with the resultant jet lag and the fatigue from such a journey is to travel in the business class cabin of a carrier that provides a connection to Tel Aviv. Business class tickets from the US to Tel Aviv can cost anywhere upwards of $3000 and if you need to travel to Tel Aviv often, these prohibitive costs can eat into your company’s annual travel budget quite rapidly.
However you can easily manage to procure cheap business class tickets for all your business class travel to Tel Aviv
by availing of the highly cost effective and efficient services of a
business class travel specialist, like the New York City based travel management company, Fare Buzz. Fare Buzz is a leading supplier of cheap business class flights. Through its contracts with over sixty domestic and international airlines it is able to procure cheap business class airfares to nearly every global destination. You can actually expect to have savings of nearly 70% when you book your company’s business class travel
through Fare Buzz instead of regular channels. Moreover the travel desk
at Fare Buzz is manned by knowledgeable and experienced personnel who
are on hand seven days a week to help you with all the travel planning
necessary for your journey to high- tech hotspot of Tel Aviv. Do call
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