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- TOP LEVEL VISIT DEMONSTRATES IFC'S COMMITMENT TO PNG - A visit to Papua New Guinea by IFC's Director for East Asia and Pacific, Dick Ranken, during the quarter reinforced the Corporation’s commitment to the Pacific region and in particular, the region’s largest and most populous nation.
- GENERAL MANAGER'S REVIEW - Rob Simms (Acting General Manager)
- WORLDHOTEL-LINK RENEWES COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - Four years have now passed since IFC launched Worldhotellink.com with a membership of just seven small hotels in the dusty Cambodian town of Siem Reap. Today, this unique information and booking engine provides travellers around the globe with instant access to nearly 18 hundred tourist enterprises in more than 250 destinations.
- PNG WORKSHOP EMPOWERS WOMEN IN THE FISHERIES SECTOR - In Papua New Guinea, an IFC sponsored workshop has shown 14 women how to plan, start and operate a seafood business. The number of workshop attendees may have been small, but it is expected that the skills learnt will eventually benefit hundreds perhaps thousands of women to succeed in what is currently a male dominated industry.\
- IFC WORKS TO BOOST SKILLS AND INVESTMENT IN PNG'S TOURISM SECTOR - Following the success of last year’s Tourism Project Development Workshop in the Papua New Guinea Highlands, which was aimed at providing participants with the knowledge and practical skills to enable them to prepare and evaluate viable tourism projects, IFC conducted a second workshop in March in the town of Kokopo on the island of New Britain.
