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Culture Travel Opportunities @ VoxWorld.Coop Outlets: World

Homeshores Direct, a Virtual Festival 365 of World Cultures - New Ideas, New Ways©

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As we proceed with the official opening of VoxWorld.Coop Outlets, our primary interest is to open a new channel worldwide for Community-branded Culture products and services via electronic, mobile and physical showcasing in Culture Commerce within a Social Marketplace setting, as dedicated to Virtual Communities, with virtual meeting place at: www.voxworld-coop.ning.com. In specifically promoting connectivity through Culture Travel, we wish to further the aims of the Sustainable Tourism initiatives from GSTC & ST-EP (refer below) - and from which every country and community can benefit greatly, indeed potentially every town and every village too. While our particular focus is on helping to create many thousands of Jobs at Home within participating Communities, we aim to achieve this with New Ideas, New Ways in addition of a Social Purchasing dimension to that of existing tourism service provider offers and, uniquely, through opening of VoxWorld.Coop's Culture Showcases in a Hospitality Centres Exchange around the world.

We seek to address the needs of people wherever people meet- whether in the homeplace, the workplace or other meeting places of Communities worldwide - through use of a unique VoxLabs virtual eBusiness model featuring enterprise, digital and social dimensions www.labs.voxworld.coop. We achieve this through using three versions of our Culture Showcase Exchange model - online, offline and mobile; reflecting the pace of life today and the varying places where we meet. In doing so we seek to engage people too in meeting their radically different education, innovation and microfinance needs in their Social Marketplace. We collectively aim to meet people in their homeshores, hospitality and hospital/ clinic locations (as we begin with Care, simply caring for people around us); at their cooperatives, telecentre/ colleges and diversity employer corporations; or through their diaspora orgs, social causes and social movements. We help Communities to earn, learn, shop and save; where products and services can be customised and servitised to meet their global Community requirements. We bring together the elements of social purchasing, culture showcasing and create online opportunities to work at home.

  

How is all this achieved - through Travel-Culture?

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And we can do all this today, through promotion of Sustainable Tourism for any community, culture or country or region - helping promote them through VoxWorld.Coop "Culture Travel" Showcase-ing in Internet linked Cafes, Hotels, Community Colleges, Universities & Airports in Developed Countries, with constant Culture Travel Offers from Developing Countries - while in exchange simultaneously Showcase-ing the products and services (through migrants, diaspora, frequent flyers, business travellers, conference attendees etc) of Developed Countries that are in demand in Developing Countries, led by mobile consumer electronics. Where Sustainable Travel is our focal point within global Tourism sector, the world's biggest industry - addressing both its leisure and business travel dimensions.

Why Culture Travel? Its the Startpoint for so many opportunities for Communities. Culture Travel brings foreign exchange currencies into many of the poorest countries on earth - where perhaps Remittances never reach. Income is disbursed across hospitality, attractions, leisure, entertainment, retail, transport and cultural activities, It generates rare jobs in rural areas, improves countless lives, and is spread out among MSME's, micro and small to medium sized enterprises, in particular. That money is then circulated locally among those communities on food, drink, traded-services, etc - with possibilities for further learning and advancement at both an individual and community level, as well as in both supporting manufacturing/ services opportunities and in generating further export traded-services earnings that can follow. It opens dialogue with the world. It builds relationships, on which opportunities for community advancement can be constructed.

It is accepted by very many people that, with the Great Crash of 2008, the World has awoken to and is now increasingly aware of the value and meaning of most things they consume, and that includes travel. With that people understand that EcoTourism or Sustainable Tourism are the way-to-go; preserving as custodians of our culture what we most value, so we can pass it on to our children as a virtual nest egg. Where with culture, one is never be really lost in the world - knowing that where there is a will, there is then is always a way. Leading social activists recognise today that learning and earning can still and indeed should be 'fun' for Developing Nations - how better to achieve this than through the 'enjoyment and achievement' embedded for travellers and local community alike in Sustainable Tourism. Culture Travel educates people, opens their eyes, and generates a greater understanding and thus appreciation of each other; while protecting what we hold dear to our hearts. For those who embrace Culture Travel in one vision, one where everyone participates, then great rewards beckon. What the world enjoys, it wants more of - so success and progress begets more success and progress....good word spreads rapidly....that people are welcome......and happy travellers tell your story better, with more passion and conviction, than any travel agent can ever hope to do.

Tourism and Poverty Alleviation:

In achieving this ambition, VoxWorld.Coop wishes, firstly, to promote the 37 voluntary Standards as set by Tourism Industry at GSTC, the Global Sustainable Tourism Criteria - as set up in 2008 by Rainforest Alliance with several UN Orgs and over 40 Contributing Tourism Partners, under following sub-headings:

1. Demonstrate effective sustainable management.

2. Maximize social and economic benefits to the local community and minimize negative impacts.

3. Maximize benefits to cultural heritage and minimize negative impacts.

4. Maximize benefits to the environment and minimize negative impacts.

1. Conserving resources

2. Reducing pollution

3. Conserving biodiversity, ecosystems, and landscapes

And, secondly, we wish to promote the 7-step Mechanisms set out in UNWTO's ST-EP, Sustainable Tourism-Eliminating Poverty, which are:

1. Employment of the poor in tourism enterprises

2. Supply of goods and services to tourism enterprises by the poor or by enterprises employing the poor

3. Direct sales of goods and services to visitors by the poor (informal economy)

4. Establishment and running of tourism enterprises by the poor - e.g. micro, small and medium sized enterprises (MSMEs), or community based enterprises (formal economy)

5. Tax or levy on tourism income or profits with proceeds benefiting the poor

6. Voluntary giving/support by tourism enterprises and tourists:

7. Investment in infrastructure stimulated by tourism also benefiting the poor in the locality, directly or through support to other sectors

  

To proceed to implementation now, you need to next select at least one of the three parallel Product Platform options available for community customisation & servitisation, as illustrated through Community Co-op Money Transfer Card & Voucher below:

1. Custom Laces & Accessories platform.
2. Custom Wallet & VoucherCard platform.
3. Custom M.C.E. Reader & USB/ Thumb drive Library platform.

The Social Marketplace is very much about Services today, and tomorrow it will be all about Servitisation - given growth of Knowledge & Innovation Economies everywhere; and about what imaginative services are attached to your particular servitised product offering. While this is challenging no doubt for all of us, it can be achieved by one word - your Culture! It is your Culture that differentiates you and your people from everyone else - in your music, songs, dance, heritage etc. And VoxFranchise® prefers to think of your culture as being part of a homeshores direct, virtual Festival 365 of World Cultures©. Your Smart Wallet & Card(s) can then be envisaged as the gift wrapping as per the attached "Co-op Money Transfer Voucher-card" and wallet shown below, all available through Vox Franchise® today.

How the Community VoxFranchise® Hub & Smartshop-based Outlets networks are best achieved are described below - together with the Triple Servitised Product Platforms

Custom Showcase - example	SOCIAL PURCHASING & E-COMM Self-Funding, Unit No. 2 With Master Franchise Centre E-COMM Social Purchasing services can be accessed through the following steps @ VoxFranchise® Self-Funding Unit: Open online, offline or mobile E-COMM Hub© franchise. Adopt global Tradecard or Purchasing Cards facility at E-COMM Outlets© Open local Merchant or Payment Accounts facility at E-COMM Hub© or E-COMM Traders© Avail of OTM, Escrow & Outsourced Treasury Management services at E-COMM Outlets©. Leverage Money Transfers for local E-COMM Hub©, Community Development with microfinance services. Open E-COMM website, e-commerce, storefront and CAT. Adopt Social Purchasing franchise formats featuring VoxLabs® BarterCat Redemption Vouchers© with up to 40% added value for buyers, with 20% revenue sharing for global community and 5% levy for local E-COMM Hub©
Custom Laces & Accessories platform - example	CAUSES-THEMED LACES & ACCESSORIES SERVITISATION With Art Clubs Over duration of Causes-themed 'VoxLaces & Statement Accessories' Culture Programme Rollout & Workplan the following services will be available for provision on an outsourced basis to Communities: ITSC VoxFranchise® Hubs & Smartshops Causes Orgs integration Caring-Across-Cultures leader Outlets locations Community Brand Showcase culture content dotCoop co-promotion worldwide   Festival of World Cultures Expo 365 Customised VoxLaces & Accessories platform CVNO Instant-impact, Brand-power & Mega-value vouchers Vox O&O Servitisation units for digital factories Tacit Interactive Jobs with SmartLabs
Custom Wallet & Vouchercard platform - example	DIASPORA-THEMED WALLET & VOUCHER-CARD SERVITISATION With Carrier Clubs Over duration of Diaspora-themed 'VoxWallet & Redeemable Voucher-cards' Culture Programme Rollout & Workplan the following services, covering range of 21 x cards, will be available for provision on an outsourced basis to Communities: ITSC VoxFranchise® Hubs & Smartshops Diaspora Orgs integration Caring-Across-Cultures leader Outlets locations Community Brand Showcase culture content dotCoop co-promotion worldwide Festival of World Cultures Expo 365 Customised VoxWallet & Vouchercards platform CVNO Instant-impact, Brand-power & Mega-value vouchers Vox O&O Servitisation units for digital factories  Tacit Interactive Jobs with SmartLabs Remittance Prices Worldwide (Source: World Bank) Learn to be Money Smart -a Curriculum (Source: FDIC), US only
Amazon Kindle eBook Reader on MCE platform - example	MOVEMENTS-THEMED M.C.E. & USB-LIBRARIES SERVITISATION With Culture Clubs Over duration of Movements-themed 'VoxMobile Consumer Electronics & USB-Libraries' Culture Programme Rollout & Workplan the following services, covering Culture product category sources, will be available for provision on an outsourced basis to Communities:    ITSC VoxFranchise® Hubs & Smartshops Movements Orgs integration Caring-Across-Cultures leader Outlets locations Community Brand Showcase culture content dotCoop co-promotion worldwide Festival of World Cultures Expo 365 Customised Mobile Consumer Electronics & USB Libraries platform CVNO Instant-impact, Brand-power & Mega-value vouchers Vox O&O Servitisation units for digital factories Tacit Interactive Jobs with SmartLabs