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Here are the three resources we've prepared for today:

• Messi: 20 years of career since his professional debut with Barça

• A Hilton report reveals global travel trends for 2025

• Axios Latino, bilingual newsletter from Axios and Noticias Telemundo

Messi: 20 years of career since his professional debut with Barça

On October 16, 2004, 20 years ago, Leo Messi made his professional debut as a player for Barça.

We have compiled in On the Net Today some of the special content pieces that allow us to review his spectacular career as a footballer during these two decades:

On the FC Barcelona website, you can relive all his goals wearing the Barcelona shirt, season by season (requires free registration), as well as other videos about his career: 

• Leo Messi's Best Videos – FC Barcelona

• Leo Messi, FC Barcelona's historic record breaker – FC Barcelona

The Athletic / The New York Times:

• Lionel Messi: The evolution of the greatest footballer of all time

The video about Argentina's triumph in the Qatar World Cup, on FIFA's website

• Argentina: A Nation’s Story

And this is Leo Messi's official website, available in Spanish, English, and Catalan: messi.com 

A Hilton report reveals global travel trends for 2025

The international hotel chain Hilton has published its annual travel trends report, "Hilton Trends Report 2025: The Vacation Maximized", which reveals that "as the post-pandemic leisure travel boom normalizes", travelers "seek to combine their desire to relax and recharge with high-impact adventures and experiences to maximize their time and financial investment".

“Our 2025 Trends Report uncovers what has been simmering for years – the intersection of work and play; of relaxation and adventure; of being alone but together. Travelers don’t just want to choose their own adventure – they want to maximize every moment of their time away,” according to Hilton CEO Chris Nassetta.

Report findings were uncovered after extensive global research, involving 13,000 travelers across 13 countries, including Brazil, feedback from over 4,100 Hilton team members and in-depth interviews with dozens of Hilton travel experts.

These are the emerging trends detected and explained in the report:

• Adventure-Seeking “Go Getaways” Take on Restorative Sleep Retreats and “Hurkle-Durkling” 

• "Time travel" (revisiting childhood destinations with children) and "slow travel" (immersing oneself in a destination like a local) accelerate

• Combination of "high-tech travel" with digital detox

• Pet travel gains prominence

• The "frolleagues" phenomenon emerges (combination of friends who are also work colleagues and travel together)

• Increase in Alpha generation travelers (travel with children) and MeMooners (people traveling solo)

• Travelers who are culinary explorers and who reduce alcohol consumption

• Travels for inner discovery and related to sports

Link: 

• Hilton Trends Report 2025: The Vacation Maximized

Axios Latino, bilingual newsletter from Axios and Noticias Telemundo

Among Axios' wide range of newsletters is Axios Latino, the only bulletin offered by this digital media that is published in both English and Spanish.

It's a newsletter produced in collaboration with Noticias Telemundo, the news team of the Hispanic channel Telemundo in the United States. The Spanish version of the newsletter is offered on the Noticias Telemundo website.

Axios Latino is published and sent twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and covers stories that directly affect the Latino community in the United States.

Links:

• Axios Latino – Subscription

• Most recent edition (in English)

• From the English edition, there's a link to the corresponding Spanish version. Here's the one from October 15, 2024

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