Small Business Development

Helping Small Businesses Succeed

Solimar understands that entrepreneurial, small tourism businesses represent the greatest opportunity to stimulate economic development in tourism destinations. We also understand from our first hand experience the fact that small business owners lack the resources and business training to be competitive in today's marketplace.

Tourism businesses regardless of size should strive to be operated in an efficient, sustainable, and profitable manner. In order to achieve this, the business must incorporate the values of sustainable tourism and sensible business practices.

Solimar has identified several key areas in which small businesses have been known to experience difficulty. We believe that by evaluating these simple elements of the small business practice and subsequently developing a plan of action that we will be able to provide the operation with added opportunities for success.

The major components of Solimar's small business development training include;

• Business planning
• Operations and business processes
• Client communication
• Marketing strategy and creative materials
• Accounting/bookkeeping
• Human resources management
• Organizational structure