Promoting Tourism in Post-tsunami Samoa
The SWAP Limousine helped twelve lucky winners to ride in style down to Rock da Boat on Friday 20th.
This was the first “outing” by the limousine and was a great success. Our thanks to Corey and Etu from Majik FM, Y-Not and V-Bar for making it all happen.
The SWAP Foundation is pleased to generate online exposure and action for Samoa and looks forward to using the “SWAP Limo” for many more adventures in the future. Pictures and story are available online at Samoa Limousines Hall of Fame
MCIT (The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology) has invited the SWAP team to attend the e-Government conference being held at the Tanoa Tusitala Hotel this week. The event is put on by Commonwealth Center for e-Government and sponsored by SPC (http://www.spc.int) in Fiji. There’s nothing online yet about it but we’ll update this post as things come to hand.
International Facebook connections map. Beautiful colours and a serious message that the world is now "Connected", with a capital "C"!
Debbie and I (Dennis) were invited to give the Minister of Communications and his team a presentation this week.
In it we explained what SWAP is all about . . . essentially Voluntourism based around Internet Marketing.
You are sure to enjoy it!
The SWAP team is off to Savaii this morning to check out the beach resort at Falealupo.
With sunsets like this one, Falealupo beach is very likely to be a major part of the Go! Go! Go! SAMOA and SAMOA DAY promotion. It is the last place in the world to see the sun each day.
The team will be checking out the tourist sights and friends along the way. They will be reporting back with their experiences in a day or so.
SWAP Foundation granted SLC land.The Samoa Land Corporation has granted the SWAP Foundation 5 acres for their headquarters in Tafa’igata.
General Manager of SLC, Peseta Malouamaua Afoa Arasi Tiotio says that 5 acres in Tafa’igata has been allocated for the SWAP Foundation effective 9 May, 2011.
Dennis A. Smith, CEO of the SWAP Foundation, says that his team is “totally stoked” to now be able to start building their headquarters and upscale their operations.
“Securing land suitable for our requirements has been a real challenge”, he says. “We have previously been renting in Lotopa and Satapuala but we’ve been actively looking for a more secure longer term option for our base for a while”. [Read more...]
The SWAP Foundation is pleased to announce that the proposed Go! Go! Go! SAMOA & SAMOA DAY promotions have been approved by the Prime Minister and Samoa Cabinet and are now “all go!”
The SWAP Foundation will issue a MEDIA RELEASE on Monday 2nd May 2011 with more details suitable for publication. (UPDATE: Media Release delayed awaiting written confirmation of Cabinet approval.) [Read more...]
OK, well we’ve arrived … Dunno so much about the culture shock but wasn’t expecting the depth of third world conditions.
Left Christchurch in 6 degrees and arrived to 30 degrees…ouch! Especially when you are still in trousers and sneakers. Plus when we arrived Air NZ managed to lose Rosie’s suitcase, seems the check-in chick in Christchurch figured it was quicker to hit ‘reprint’ for baggage tags for the people behind us, so needless to say the impossible happened (Air New Zealand’s words) and our bags had the same baggage tag numbers as the people behind us! [Read more...]
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