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Project:Exposure Set to Make Big Splash at WTM

Project:Exposure, the SME development and web 2.0 destination marketing program of WHL Consulting will be spending much of next week in meetings with a range of potential sponsors from all around the world. To date meetings have been lined up with over 25 organizations at the World Travel Market, which takes place in London from [...]

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Fiji Eco-tourism Association partners with the South Pacific Tourism Organization, bringing market access tools to SMEs in Fiji

The Fiji Eco-tourism Association and the South Pacific Tourism Organization have partnered to bring small and medium enterprises (SMEs) a three-phase project involving a workshop specifically for the needs of SMEs to explain the concept of the next phase – an SME audit. The third and final phase involves the implementation of the results and [...]

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Business Edge and SME Toolkit Trainers have been Equipped with Tourism and Hotel Management Skills in Mozambique

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, today concluded a training around its Tourism and Hotel Management component of the Business Edge Solution to deepen support for entrepreneurs in Mozambique.

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SMEs Supporting the Tourism Development Bank

Entrepreneurs in Minas Gerais, Brazil go on camera to show their support for the Tourism Development Bank as an innovative new payment mechanism for SME accommodation owners.

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Tourism Development Bank Launches as Solution to Finance Obstacles Faced by Small Businesses

Since 2008, WHL Consulting (a WHL Group company) has made it its specialised mission to provide services that, among other other things, really boost global market access for accommodation and tour providers.

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WHL Consulting Announces Collaboration with E+Co, Working with Invisible Schoolhouse

WHL Consulting has started work on Invisible Schoolhouse, an innovative educational program, as part of a wider collaboration between WHL Consulting and E+Co.

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America’s Oil Stricken Gulf Coast – Still Open for Business

The Gulf Oil Spill has threatened a pristine stretch of US coastline – endangering one of America’s great family road trips

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North America Branch of WHL Group Recruiting Sales Executive

The WHL Group is the largest local-travel company in the world, a global network of companies that help travelers find unique ways to experience a destination through local tourism professionals.

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South Africa tourism development with a long term view

This article was originally published on Make Travel Fair. The world’s biggest sporting event will kick off in Johannesburg, South Africa on 11 June 2010. The FIFA World Cup will attract international travellers from all around the globe to the Rainbow Nation. The boom in tourism will be huge over this period but numbers will inevitably [...]

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GSD Working in Armenia

GSD is working with CAPS a USAID Project to help IT companies and tourism companies come together to be better partners. At a meeting of the Union of Incoming Tour Operators of Armenia the team showed them how to use a CMS system, with this example. There were 6 representatives and the talk was to focus on IT solutions and [...]

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