Boosting The Morale and The Economy of America

It appears that the local Travel Bureaus are the best organization to provide this information. After all, they are in daily contact with the local travel industry and have the personal, equipment, data and working place to provide all this information.

This is the reason that after September 11th I approached the Travel Bureau of Hawaii and after Hurricane Katrina I approached the Travel Bureau of New Orleans with my ideas. I assumed that indeed they are the best party to announce the needs of their communities.

Unfortunately, I was very disappointed with both of them. I felt that they were totally useless and will never bring victory to their communities. As a matter of fact, it is my opinion that they are part of the problem that is leading America on a loosing path. I believe that if we are planning to win and beat future crises we should bypass those organizations all together!

I say this with sadness because they do have the physical infrastructure to perform the tusk of announcing the specific needs. Bypassing them means that we will need to invest extra money in space, equipment and collect data that they should be able to do faster and cheaper.

However, the fact is that they do not operate at the standards that I believe are essential in order to beat crises. First, they do not have the desire to win the way I have. Their measure for success is very low and at a level in which I would consider to be a failure.

It appears that they are more performance oriented rather than a result oriented. I mean by this that their goals are regarding budget that they can raise, number of commercial that they could produce, type of magazines they can advertise in, time slot that they could appear on T.V, celebrities they are associated with, etc.

Yet, ask them what is the number of minimum visitors they need in order to prevent layoffs and they would have no idea what are you talking about. Those are not issues they are concerned about.

My plans are to recruit directors with prestige and leadership and then give the Travel Bureau ultimatum: "Get up your act together or we will bypass you all together". I would like to determent this issue by mid 2008.

And if we have to bypass them then we will need to raise more funds. Ultimately, our success in real time depends on people on location that have the ability and the will to provide accurate information in real time and who understand our "game play" and goals.