Program Consortium

Chemonics

Since 1975, Chemonics has managed more than 950 projects worldwide, including 145 in the Middle East. We are currently implementing 12 projects in the region, including three in Jordan. Our management systems support efficient integration of subcontractors and produce quality, timely results within budget. Our tourism expertise spans the world, and includes more than 40 projects implemented to date. Working in Jordan for 16 years, we have managed 10 tourism projects, including the successful Jordan Tourism Development (JTD) and JTD Petra (JTDPR). This experience enables us to quickly mobilize JTD II, building on key successes and lessons learned to cement Jordan as a world-class tourism destination.

Better Business

A woman-owned Jordanian firm with expertise in change management, organizational reform, tourism awareness, leadership training, and customer service development. Among its clients are Jordanian ministries and governmental organizations (such as MOPIC), the private sector (such as Pepsi and the Ahli Bank) and NGOs. Under JTD, Better Business led team building exercises and was instrumental in the Madaba Tourism Awareness Program and the DoA Strategy Launch. For USAID/Jordan AMIR, the firm assisted with the MoTA Strategy Launch and the Jordan Tourism Board Capacity Building and Strategy Launch.

International Business Legal Associates (IBLaw)

IBLAW is Jordan’s leading firm in tourism legislative and policy reform, privatization, public-private partnerships, large real estate development schemes, and regional and infrastructure legal and institutional arrangements. It offers services in legislative drafting, commercial and corporate advisory, and privatization and finance. IBLaw has provided legal support to the tourism law and bylaws; it also supported legal reforms creating ASEZA and is the legal firm of the ADC, an entity with many similarities to the proposed Tourism Development Corporation.

Solimar

This tourism development firm has worked with more than 350 businesses in 17 countries. In Jordan, Solimar helped develop the National Tourism Strategy by assisting public and private sector stakeholders develop a value chain approach to enhance tourism’s competitiveness. Solimar also worked in central Jordan to enhance the visitor experience and to create a model for heritage site management, as well as designing a model to develop, interpret, and manage a wide variety of heritage, religious, and archaeological sites.

Aid to Artisans (ATA)

This nonprofit organization is specialized in working with craftspeople to develop and refine their products. ATA assists them in becoming entrepreneurs through business skills and sales training and new market development. They are experienced in finding buyers for products, and in introducing designs for export markets. Every year ATA sponsors artists from around the world to travel to the International Folk Art Market. At the 2007 market held in New Mexico, 110 artists from 40 countries and six continents exhibited. Nearly 20,000 people attended and artists’ sales increased by 31 percent over 2006, to $1.7 million, and average sales per booth were $15,000. ATA knows Jordan’s handicraft sector well given that its president was the founding director of the Jordan Design and Trade Center. ATA also worked on the Artisan Development project with USAID, the Noor al Hussein Foundation, and Save the Children.

Cultural Site Research Management (CSRM)

With two decades of Jordan experience CSRM is arguably the most knowledgeable firm on the Petra Archaeological Park (PAP). They are intimately familiar with the challenges and opportunities facing the park and are working to address the needs of the surrounding community. CSRM’s principals led the development of Petra’s operating plan, conducted capacity assessment, and under JTD, the Petra visitor services plan and the Petra interpretation plan. Expert on Nabatean archaeology, CSRM is working with the DoA to develop new Nabatean sites and link them to Petra as part of a Nabatean trade route experience. CSRM brings extensive park management experience from the U.S. and around the world. Its key strengths are managing tourist flows, providing tourist services, creating experiences in and surrounding sites, and engaging gateway communities to sites. CSRM also brings access to U.S. experts on museum curation and conservation.