Originated for the International Congress of Official Traffic Associations, the World Tourism Organization is a United Nations agency that deals with tourism related issues. As of 2005, its membership included more than 350 affiliate members, 145 countries, and 7 territories and representing educational institutions, private sector, and tourists associations. The UNWTO is located in Madrid, Spain.

Launched in 1995, Air Highways Magazine emerged as a result of the publishing of a series of travel maps displaying diverse models of transportation. Thousands of copies of the magazine were distributed by the company's customers Avis Rent A Car and Best Western Hotels to their clients in North America. This resulted in the assignment by Canada's Government to create a supermap of air routes, as travelers were interested in how to get to various destinations in fast and convenient manner.

The most famous American hotels have gained their reputation and renown by hosting some important events and celebrities and providing top quality services. Many hotels have entered into the consciousness by popular culture and are also frequented by celebrities. To these belong such famous hotels as the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Chateau Mountain in California and the Plaza Hotel and the Hotel Chelsea and many more hotels.

Created in 1987 as a Risk Purchasing Group by the management professionals and resort hotel owners, the Association of Hotels and Resorts is a non-profit insurance association, specializing in insurance programs designed specifically to face the challenges and cover risks unique to historic and luxury resorts, spas and independent destinations. It was established as a response to rates increase and insurance availability reduction by the constricted insurance market.

Formed in Chicago in 1936 by a group of 14 airlines, the ATA - better known as the Air Transport Association -- was the first and remains today the only organization of the largest US airlines. It is headquartered in Washington, DC. Since its foundation the company has been an important player in all major government decisions concerning aviation, including airline deregulation, the establishment of the Civil Aeronautics Board and creation of the air traffic control system.

Launched in 1995, Air Highways Magazine emerged as a result of the publishing of a series of travel maps displaying diverse models of transportation. Thousands of copies of the magazine were distributed by the company's customers Avis Rent A Car and Best Western Hotels to their clients in North America. This resulted in the assignment by Canada's Government to create a supermap of air routes, as travelers were interested in how to get to various destinations in fast and convenient manner.

TINET is the US national tourism office for policy issues and research established in the early 1980s. As part of the US Department of Commerce, it is responsible for developing, collecting and reporting on the statistical and market research on the international travel to promote planning in private and public sectors. Since 1985, TINET has been working with CIC Research to manage one of the research programs presented by the former - the Survey of International Air Travelers.

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is the forum for facilitating economic growth, trade, investment and co-operation in the Asia Pacific region. It is the world's only intergovernmental grouping that operates on the basis of open dialogue, non-binding commitments and respect for the views of all members, as well as operator of its own tourism information network. The organization's 21 members account for about 47% of world trade, 56% of world GDP, and 40% of the world population.

Created in 1996 with the aim of promoting the international discussion about major information technologies in the travel and tourism industry, the International Federation for Information Technologies and Travel and Tourism, commonly referred to as IFITT, is the leading global community for the development, discussion and exchange of knowledge about use and impact of new ICTs in the travel and tourism industry. One of the most important parts of IFITT is the IFITT workshop.

Dedicated to internationally dedicated business activities, the Chambers of Commerce Network, also known as WCN, is your key to being a prosperous business in the 21st century. It provides a platform from the chamber's best business exchange and fosters a comprehensive business information exchange on a wide range of issues such as services products, markets, resources, and technology.

The Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM), was established by the Treaty of Chaguaramas in August 1973, with the first signatories being Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, Jamaica and Barbados. The organization replaced the Caribbean Free Trade Association that has been established to provide economic links among the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean, following the collapse of the West Indies Federation in May 1962.

One of the wealthiest nations in the world, Canada is a member of Group of Eight and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Like with other world's leading nations, Canadian economics is dominated by the service industry dedicated to employing a high percentage of Canadians. The country differs from other developed nations in the significance of its primary sector, with oil and lodging industries recognized as the most important in Canada.

With more than 1,400 members across Canada and from other countries, the Canada Economics Association, frequently referred to as CEA, is the organization of academic economists of Canada. It was established to advance economic knowledge through the issuing of publications, encouragement of study and research, and promotion of discussion of economy-related issues. The organization doesn't commit its members to assume partisan position on any issue of practical politics.

Designed to promote trade liberalization between the USA and five Central American countries, such as Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica, the Central America Free Trade Agreement was approved by the United States Senate in June 2005. It was modeled after the North American Free Trade Agreement and is believed to be a stepping-stone to the Free Trade Area in the Americas encompassing 34 economies. Demonstrating the power of the Catholic Church and its impact on everything, US Bishops raised an eyebrow concerning the CAFTA initiative.

The Dominican Republic - Central American Free Trade Agreement is a free trade agreement which encompassed originally the Central American countries of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica and the United States and was known as CAFTA. When the Dominican Republic joined negotiations in 2004, the agreement changed its name to DR-CAFTA.

Since the 1990s, Russian economics has been subject to many transformations, including the dismantling of centrally planned economy regarded as a hallmark of the Soviet Union, and its replacement by the economy which operates on the basis of private property and market forces. This process of economic transition was initiated by some of the former communist states of Central Europe a few years before Russia, which provided insight into effects of such transition.

The Eurasian Economic Community, commonly referred to as EURASEC or EAEC, was formed in October 2000, when Russia, Belarus, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan signed the treaty. However, it wasn't until May 2001 that the organization was officially established. EURASEC membership is composed of nations which are members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, while the relations between these organizations are ambiguous.

Created in December 1994, the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa is a preferential trading area that encompasses 20 member states stretching from Zimbabwe to Libya. Nine of the organization's member states formed a free trade area in 2000, while Burundi and Rwanda joined COMESA in 2004 and Libya and Comoros in 2006. The Treaty establishing the organization was signed in November 1993 and ratified in December 1994.

The United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference, also known as Breton Woods Conference, was a meeting of 730 delegates from 45 Allied Nations, held in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire from July 1 - 22, 1944. Established at the Bretton Woods Conference were two international bodies for regulation of the international financial and monetary order following the end of World War II, namely the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Designed and carried out in 1944, the Bretton Woods system established basic rules for financial and commercial relations between the major industrial states of the world. It was the first example of the fully negotiated monetary order with the aim of governing monetary relations among world's independent nations. The Bretton Wood system's chief feature was an obligation for all countries to adopt monetary policy maintaining exchange rate of its currency within a fixed value.

One of the world's biggest and most influential countries, the United States boasts the largest and one of the most technologically advanced national economics, with a GDP of $12.4 trillion as of 2005. In this free market oriented, capitalistic economy, private enterprises and corporations comprise the majority of microeconomic decisions, as the government takes a minimal if any role in the domestic economy. Due to this, the US economics impacts on business firms means they face less regulation as compared to those in many other countries.

The oldest and the most influential organization in the field of economics, the American Economic Association, commonly referred to as AEA, was established in 1885 at a conference in New York by a group of people interested in economics. The Organization was incorporated in 1923 by Richard Ely, the first secretary of AEA. The current president of the Association is Daniel McFadden of the University of California at Berkeley.

The American Agricultural Economics Association is a non-profit professional agricultural association and organization whose members are interested in agricultural economics - the application of economic tools for the analysis of issues in the areas of food, agriculture, natural resources and rural communities. Throughout its history, the organization has strived to keep its members informed on the latest agricultural economies policy issues and research developments.

The Economic Community of Central African States, commonly known by its acronym ECCAS, is a non-profit organization established with the vision of promoting regional economic co-operation in Central Africa and with its respective Central African States. Today as ever, ECCAS works towards achieving collective autonomy, maintaining economic stability through intensive co-operation and raising standard of living of its member states.

Established with the aim to promote cultural, social and economic development of African states, the African Economic Community is a body that works towards achieving the following objective: to create free trade areas, single market, customs unions, common currency and a central bank establishing thus economic and monetary union. Form the pillars of AEC are a number of trade blocks, including ECOWAS, ECCAS, SADC, AMU and COMESA.