20 - Sunday, February 25, 1990 - North Shore News CAPILANO COLLEGE and the North Shore Tourism Committee will sponsor a tourism-business related seminar on March 7, from a 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Lonsdale Quay Hotel. The event is designed for small! and medium sized North Shore Ae businesses, non-tourism industry | people, municipal government rep- a resentatives and the general public. Topics to be covered by the guest speakers include business packaging, information services and cultural and heritage services on the North Shore. aoe THE KNOWLEDGE Network will televise the National Film Board- | produced documentary Super | Companies on Feb. 26 at 9 p.m. and again on Feb. 28 at 10 p.m. | The Super Companies of this r . hour-long show are multi-national | companies that treat the world as | one market. They take raw mate- rials from one place, process them | in another, and sell them elsewhere. “They do not work to improve conditions in their host countries 4 but seek out the cheapest materials, the lowest taxes, the best deals. They exist to make money for their shareholders and the are : highest profits possible,’’ said an a : NFB press release. wat TOURISM VANCOUVER says the city is on a roll in attracting : more visitors at a time when other - major Canadian destinations are : down in tourist traffic. : . Executive director Tom Walker ‘ said the ‘Discover the Spec- , “tacular’’ off-season promotion a . aimed at the Seattle market has ms nearly doubled the number of 7 room nights booked in the same October to January period of a % : year ago. : wae TRAVEL AGENTS International (TAD, a leading franchiser of re. : : eet 2 FOR PROFESSIONAL REAL ESTATE ‘g . + SERVICES CALL Pa BUS: 985-8231 ff oo: cane AES: 964-SALE Sa | (7253) _BUSIMSSS BRIEFS Tetail travel agencies, has now opened up an office in West Van- couver, located at 2423 Marine Drive. This agency now joins a family of over 350 TA) agencies across North America. It reflects a fran- chise concept unique in the travel industry. “The major reason we joined the TAI franchise are the excellent support services and outstanding reputation for professional stand- ards in the travel industry,’’ said Terri Calligaro, owner of the West Vancouver agency. weak A EUROPEAN leading expert in the field of public finances, Dr. Norbert Andel, will give a free lec- ture about the effects the Value Added Tax has had in Europe on March 8 at 8 p.m. at the Goethe Institute in Vancouver. ’ Andel is a professor of econom- ics at the University of Frankfurt and an adviser to the German Ministries of Labor. The lecture is expected to be of interest to both advocates and op- ponents of the Goods and Services Tax. nae A TWO-DAY workshop on inter- national countertrading of goods and services will be held at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre from March 12 to 13. 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