Despite its successes, WHL Consulting believes that it will not be possible to continue its mission as a sustainable development organisation without addressing the key business constraint of access to finance by small businesses. So they came up with their own innovative financing tool: the Tourism Development Bank.

The effect is stunning. For armchair explorers it’s about as close to a live visual experience of a place as one can get. Immersive spherical panoramic photography, sometimes called VR (virtual reality) photography, practically puts the viewer in the place of the photographer, the latter having taken multiple digital photos of a place, covering it…