March 2008: SW Associates and the America-Georgia Business Council Present the Georgian Way! -- the new National Tourism Strategy for Georgia May 2008: SW Associates advises on feasibility of the International Hospitality Training and Trade Zone (ihottz), Ras al Khaimah, United Arab Emirates June 2008: SW Associates President Scott Wayne joins MacArthur Foundation-sponsored team on advisory tour of Yunnan Province, China September 2008: SW Associates helps complete the five year Albania Enterprise Development and Market Export Services Project October 2008: SW Associates helps launch the Lebanon Business Linkages Initiative tourism program and Lebanon Tourism Development Blog. October 2008: Publishes a "Letter from Washington, DC" for the Republika newspaper, the major daily in Montenegro. November 2008: Scott Wayne meets with media and industry leaders at the World Travel Market, London and reports on latest economic impacts on the industry. November 2008: SW Associates conducts a 15 country emerging market survey of tourism education and training institutions for the establishment of regional hospitality education centers December 2008: SW Associates conducts a survey of the major incoming tour operators in the Republic of Georgia December 2008: Scott Wayne presents an overview of international tourism and strategy implementation in the Republic of Georgia to the annual conference of the America-Georgia Business Council. January 2009: An "Expert Opinion" by Scott Wayne for the USAID Business Climate, Legal and Institutional Reform website is published at http://www.bizclir.com/ Febuary 2009: Begins providing technical support on tourism development to the USAID Kosovo Private Enterprise Project. Helps organize the first ever Wine Tour of Kosovo. March 2009: Begins working with the World Bank in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on helping to determine new directions for Tanzanian tourism. April 2009: Helps launch the first ever Kosovo Travel Day Fair and a program called "Stay the Weekend -- Experience Kosovo." May 2009: Semester at George Washington University ends along with the Accelerated Masters Degree Program course on tourism planning that Scott has been teaching with the great assistance of Lauren Bohatka. Summer 2009: More on Kosovo, Lebanon, Rwanda, Tanzania, China and...a busy summer. |
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