accountability · Build Operate Transfer · Business · Circular Economy · Commerce · destination management · Energy Savings Plan · entrepreneurs · Historic District · Historic Towns · intercity transit · Logistics · Mobility · Partnerships · pay-per-use · Resilience · responsibility · shared economy · Tradition · travel plan

Collaborations and Partnerships in the Pay-per-Use Economy

Consumers, Manufacturers and Businesses in the Servitization Economy
Consumers increasingly prefer usership to ownership by utilizing pay-per-use and other on-demand services, as scalable and resilient value-driven outcomes such as pay-per-mile become available.
The Traditional make, use and dispose economy is supplanted by a circular one in which resources have a longer useful life, with product and materials recovery at the end of service life. End to end providers will be replaced by multiple product and service offerors with unique expertise in the provision of customer-centric rather than asset-centric services.

Build Operate Transfer · Business · Cogeneration · Conservation · destination management · Efficiency · Energy Savings Plan · entrepreneurs · Historic District · Historic Towns · renewable energy · Resilience · Sustainable Communities · water quality

Energy and Water Project Funding

Innovative Solutions for Business and Commercial Districts n Historic Towns and Neighborhoods
Small and Medium-sized Commercial Buildings account for 95 percent of building stock and consume half the energy in a sector of the economy responsible for 20 percent of the total energy consumption. Owners of smaller buildings are often unaware of the amount of energy wasted and the opportunity for savings that building automation systems provide. This sector hasn’t BAS for the following reasons: the high cost of tailoring software and acquiring hardware components is beyond the reach of most small- and medium-sized properties; the owner is not always the tenant that pays the utility bill, hence limited incentive to invest in the building’s energy efficiency.

Business · Cultural Heritage · cultural itineraries · destination management · entrepreneurs · Friends and Family Travel · Historic District · Historic Towns · intercity transit · Lakes · Maritime Heritage · museums · ships · Tradition · travel plan

Destination Vermont

Agriculture and Industry Heritage Museums Historic Sites Small Towns and Downtowns
Agriculture and Food Heritage experience Vermont’s thriving food and arts scene, local cuisine from artisan chefs, creative food companies, and passionate farmers thriving alongside artists sharing their arts and crafts.
Museums tell the story of Vermont’s heritage, arts and crafts.

Business · destination management · entrepreneurs · Historic Towns · intercity transit · museums · Rivers · Travel

Wichita Kansas

a trading post and industrial hub a regional center of culture media and trade
Wichita lies on the Arkansas River in south-central Kansas, 157 mi (253 km) north of Oklahoma City, 181 mi (291 km) southwest of Kansas City, and 439 mi (707 km) east-southeast of Denver. The Arkansas follows a winding course, south-southeast through Wichita, roughly bisecting the city.
A Trading Post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s, it became a destination for cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname Cowtown.

Business · destination management · Efficiency · entrepreneurs · Geography · Historic Towns · intercity transit · renewable energy · Rivers · travel plan

Gillette Wyoming

Gillette is centrally located in an area involved with the development of vast quantities of American coal, oil and gas Over the last decade, the population has increased 48 percent. Founded in 1891 with the coming of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad, it was named for Edward Gillette, who worked as a surveyor for the company

America · Business · Cultural Heritage · cultural itineraries · destination management · entrepreneurs · Historic Towns · museums · Sustainable Communities · Travel

Community Museums Transit Stations and Libraries

A facility small museum, train station, bus depot, library, civic center or other similar public or private building is the point of reference to carry out the above referenced training as well as to act as info point, meeting place and event location for local residents as well as visitors from other communities acting as the point of reference in the local area for cultural and other itineraries

Business · Conservation · Cultural Heritage · destination management · Efficiency · entrepreneurs · Geography · Historic Towns · intercity transit · Logistics · microtransit · Mobility · museums · Rivers · Sustainable Communities · water quality · waterways

Geography Community and Climate Change

Increased urbanization and mass migrations over the last century are key to understanding human factors in climate change; these are best understood by a careful reading of history and geography in your community. Regions of the Earth that are successfully addressing environmental problems should assist other communities, regardless of their location, set an example and provide knowledge and expertise.

America · Build Operate Transfer · Business · Commerce · Conservation · Cultural Heritage · cultural itineraries · destination management · entrepreneurs · Friends and Family Travel · Historic District · Historic Towns · hub and spoke transport · intercity transit · Logistics · museums · Sustainable Communities · travel plan

The Aberdeen South Dakota Commercial Historic District

Railroad Town Hub City and Main Street Commercial Development

Since its founding in 1881, Aberdeen has been the dominant regional commercial center for northeast South Dakota and the Aberdeen Commercial Historic District is the commercial core of this regional hub.

Main Street is a homogeneous collection of brick buildings built between 1884 and 1983, with special emphasis on the 1908-29 period. The district conveys a strong feeling of architectural cohesiveness with design elements such as corbelling and geometric brick and concrete patterns as distinguishing features that reinforce the feeling of time and place.

Build Operate Transfer · Business · Commerce · Conservation · Cultural Heritage · destination management · Efficiency · entrepreneurs · Historic Towns · hub and spoke transport · intercity transit · Maritime Heritage · microtransit · Mobility · museums · Rivers · Sustainable Communities · Travel · travel plan

Tourism and Environment Projects in Historic Towns

Managing and Marketing Tourism and Environment Projects

The Successful Implementation of Projects in one or more local areas rests on a clear plan to develop and implement a commercial strategy as well as the identification and application of the capital and human resources required.

A Commercial Strategy with Economies of Scale and Revenue Based Funding 

America · Business · Commerce · Conservation · Cultural Heritage · destination management · Efficiency · entrepreneurs · food and wine itineraries · Historic Towns · intercity transit · museums · Sustainable Communities · Travel · travel plan · water quality

Industry and Commerce Itineraries

From Farming and Manufacturing to Services and Sustainability

Travel Destinations where History is Still Being Made

Itineraries designed for American families and friends from abroad interested in experiencing the past, present and future of industrial and commercial development in key regions of the United States.