The Strength of the WTCA

 

Networking

All the AWTC members are part of a global family with many common objectives. Learning from and helping one another has been a common theme among WTCA members since the beginning, and it is one of the WTCA’s biggest strengths.

Reciprocity

In the WTCA, every local member of a WTC is automatically a member of all WTCs. This greatly helps the local membership marketing efforts of each WTC, and it vastly increases the amount of services that WTCs can offer their members. Reciprocity links all other WTCA members for support in providing services to their local members. The WTCA reinforces this policy by the issuance of a global WTC membership card. No other organization in the world which is devoted to international trade can offer businesses a home base in almost 300 cities located in 90 countries. 

Reciprocity includes:

• Group Trade Missions, with the cooperation of other WTCs, include such services as: locating partners, agents/distributors, setting up business meetings, government meetings, protocol, meeting the visiting delegation at the airport, helping with hotel discounts, etc.. 

• Matchmaking - WTCs use each other to sell their client's products and services. They match visitors from other WTCs with their own membership.

• Posting trade opportunities on individual web sites and publicizing them in local papers.

• Hosting exchanges of students, business visitors etc.

• Offering trade information on both local marketplaces and WTC members. 
  

Individual Consulting

When AWTC members need individual assistance, it is readily available from staff at the WTCA headquarters, from appropriate committee chairs or from regional coordinators appointed to provide on-site advice in their respective territories. This assistance can be reflected on AWTC members to enhance their businesses. 

Training

All AWTC members are eligible to participate in periodic WTC Development Seminars and in frequent workshops and similar orientation programs that take place over the year. This type of training creates competitiveness and enhances performance of AWTC members. 

Global Programs

WTCA On-Line

WTCA On-Line http://www.wtca.org, the powerful website of the World Trade Centers Association, offers an effortless and affordable way to give your company immediate global marketing exposure to over 300 World Trade Centers and 750,000 affiliated business members in close to 100 countries worldwide.

“My WTCA On-Line” allows WTC members to create free of charge their own personalized view with a full range of information and e-commerce services including: news, stock quotes, package tracking, international company information and worldwide weather.

With WTCAOn-Line’s World Search, WTC members will be able to search for content across the entire WTCA organization, including all databases within WTCA On-Line and information located within our international network of over 175 local World Trade Center websites, through a single point on WTCA On-Line's homepage. Bundled with WTCA World Search is a free, automatic translation service that removes language barriers across international WTC Web sites. Search for information and translate results in these languages: To and From English: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish and these additional language pairs: Russian to English, German to French, French to German. 
AWTC offers this service at its facility where a member can come and access the WTC online unlimited time during the day.

Members can use WTCA Online @ our offices any time during the day.

WTC Business Tourism

WTC Business Tourism http://www.wtcbt.com offers online travel services and offline business strategies in partnership with the World Trade Centers Association. Under the brand name TourismNOW, WTCBT offers convenient discount travel services and synergistic business tools for all business travelers around the globe. 

WTC Corps

WTC Corps http://www.wtc-corps.org helps nations in need of improved medical and educational facilities as well as international business training. The WTCA is a major partnering resource for WTC Corps. With its extensive resources, the WTCA and its member WTCs provide much of the trade related information and assistance crucial to insuring the success of newly developed markets and businesses.

WTC Mart

WTC Mart http://www.wtcmart.com, fosters international trade via the Internet by presenting small and medium-sized companies the opportunity to trade globally through a cost-efficient and convenient means. WTCA OnLine users may access WTC Mart product catalogs via a searchgate at WTCA OnLine Catalog.

World Trade Center University

World Trade Center University http://www.wtcu.org , the WTCA's Internet based educational arm, can provide access to a broad range of course work that is accredited for degrees from leading U.S. colleges and universities.