Mpumalanga, South Africa, has a lot to offer the world of travel and tourism. It is filled with sites and scenery one won’t encounter anywhere else in the world. The attention tourists give to the province – and the consequent need for local accommodation and tour providers – has put locals involved in the industry in a position to design and implement sustainable business strategies that help protect the area they serve.
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WHL Consulting Launches Tourism Development Bank as Solution to Finance Obstacles Faced by Small Businesses
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.
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WHL Consulting and 360 Cities Collaborate on Bringing Panoramic Photography to Project:Exposure
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…
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Traveling Mexico’s Mountainside like a Local
Ever since the swine flu fright and the recent economic downturn experienced throughout the world, there has been a drastic drop in tourism to Mexico. But this doesn’t stop everyone. Mexico is still optimistic and thriving with the continuation of its beautiful colors, traditions and cultures.
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Innovative Online Market-Access Program Promises New Opportunities to Tourism in Ouro Preto, Brazil
Brazil is already gearing up for two major international events: the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games. The country’s tourism infrastructure is however not keeping pace. Redressing some of these market concerns is an innovative program, called Project:Exposure, sponsored by the Multilateral Investments Fund (MIF), a fund administrated by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
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WHL Consulting Continues its Work in World Heritage Sites with a Focus on Tequila
As the world continues to see greater numbers of travellers, locally owned and small travel products are often not able to keep up the pace with Internet advances. Today tourists often prefer to search and book online and this phenomenon is cutting out small operators who do not have the skills or the soft infrastructure…
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