BEN KEENE'S BLOG

Tribewanted recognised as one of the UKs smartest small businesses

Tags: Tribe / Fiji
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 21 Feb 2010
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Tribewanted” has been chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’.

The Smarta 100 is the ultimate business accolade, recognizing the UK’s smartest small businesses. Smarta.com has uncovered remarkable companies who …

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Flying to Fiji in 2010 from UK, US, Aus, Nz

Tags: Fiji / Global
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 18 Feb 2010
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2010 is a good year for getting a better priced ticket to Fiji from most parts of the world. It’s especially good value right now if you are flying from Australia.

*Round the World tickets stopping in Fiji *

There are a number of options that include a …

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Wanted: International Tribe Managers

Tags: Tribe / Fiji / Global
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 09 Feb 2010
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We’re looking for a handful of tribal enthusiasts to help bring new members to Vorovoro over the coming months. So, if you have some spare time and you’re a natural sharer of stories, a spreader of adventures, a persuader of hesitants, and answerer of numerous questions then read on about …

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enter the geo-tourists...

Tags: Tribe / Local / Global
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 04 Feb 2010
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Jonathan Tourtellot is a classic product of this infamous society I’m sitting in: wise, whimsical and, despite a head cold, full of wonder for the world – he is the stereotypical adventurous professor leading an ambassadorial training session deep inside the arteries of natgeoHQ, Washington DC.

And the subject …

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tripbods, awards and orangutans: my world travel market top ten

Tags: Global
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 12 Nov 2009
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See the world under one roof! The biggest global travel market gathered for its 30th – and hopefully – the end of one the toughest years for the industry.

I carefully handpicked the people I was keen to catch up with and talks I was going to attend. The …

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Responsible and fairly traded tourism at Tribewanted

Tags: Tribe / Fiji / Partners
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 28 Oct 2009
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Fair trade is an attempt to slow down economic activity to match the pace of culture; it is commerce with a conscience. For those of us who travel, it doesn’t take long to realize that the resilience of culture will wear thin and eventually break when it is made to …

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Geotourism winners announced

Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 13 Sep 2009

Brilliant competition which I was fortunate to be part of announced its winners this week from over 600 entries

http://geotourism.changemakers.com/

congrats to Pepy Cambodia, Nature Air and the innovative Wikiloc

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Cahill family to lead Vorovoro in year four

Tags: Press / Team / Fiji
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 13 Sep 2009
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Congratulations to Jimmy, Jenny and their three children, Lucas, Bethany and Oliver from Indiana, USA, for beating strong competition to be appointed to run Vorovoro during the fourth year.

Jimmy will be Project Director and Jenny on-island Tribe Manager, working alongside the full-time Fijian team. They will return to …

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Tribewanted celebrates its three year island anniversary as the project continues

Tags: Tribe / Press / Fiji
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 03 Sep 2009
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  • 1000 ‘tribe members’ have spent an average of two weeks on Vorovoro Island
  • $2,000,000fj (£630,000) has been injected into the local economy through the project as agreement with landowners extended for further five years
  • The celebration included traditional Fijian meke …
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party time poetry

Tags: Tribe
Ben Keene By bengazi, Vorovoro, Fiji Posted 02 Sep 2009
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sunrise with orange eyes across our village creationthe kriss-cross of tribal traffic tread sands of celebration

earth oven fires the chosen beasts and rooted cropslashes of smoked lightcarved by giant leafy drops

bamboo boys walk on waterto base sound of hollow shella hymn before a beachskims on the …

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