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My Remarkable Trip to Biblical Armenia - Kevin J. Wright, President – World Religious Travel Association (WRTA) 

“Remarkable,” “memorable,” and “enriching” are just a few words to describe my recent two-week trip to Armenia.  Although the primary purpose of my visit was business, in the end – I also became a tourist and religious traveler of Armenia.

What brought me to Armenia? In short, as the president of the World Religious Travel Association, I came to discover whether Armenia is the next great “untapped” destination of the 300 million traveler Religious Market. What is my answer now? It is a resounding yes. Only Armenia can offer faith-based travelers a religious history that begins with the first book of the Bible (Genesis), serves as the first country to adopt the Christian faith, and can claim being evangelized by two of Jesus’ apostles Bartholomew and Thaddeus. No other biblical or faith-based destination can boast such facts and highlights.  more

Interview of Dr. Francis J. Skrobiszewski
to ArmInfo news agency

What needs to be done to fulfill the potential of human capital in Armenia?
From what I’ve seen, Armenians have a high degree of capability and intellectual capital. To stimulate it, several things can be done. Overall, when you have a market economy, entrepreneurs and innovators begin to see the opportunity to capitalize on their creativity. They begin to see what happens in the Silicon Valley and similar places, and they say “we can do that as well as they do”. One of the critical things is having access to the information about the market. The initiative to construct a broadband network in Armenia on a broader basis contributes to that goal. Having this kind of network, you can spread your creativity better, and more Armenian entrepreneurs will be able to see the opportunities to apply their potential. The other though relates to how do you grow that potential, and what do you do with it? That’s another thing, and that’s why “capital” is so critically important, particularly “professionally-deployed” venture capital. A Venture Capital fund brings more than just money, more

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The cluster concept is fundamental. Most industries include various categories of stakeholders. These stakeholders typically include: government as a regulator of commercial practices; educational institutions to prepare members of the workforce; business development services to offer consulting and other management services, and the core industry itself delivering products or services to customers… The cluster process, then, is mainly engaged in coordinating all such stakeholders in pursuit of mutually supportive objectives, most commonly in marketing and image building, improving industry-wide quality, training the workforce, and/or enacting more favorable legislation. more

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