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Bill Hinchberger
Journalist, consultant and media entrepreneur (Paris, France)

Bill Hinchberger is a freelance writer and the principal of Hinchberger Consulting, with offices in France and Brazil. He is also the founding editor of BrazilMax.com, an award-winning online travel guide to South America’s largest country, and the host of BrazilMax Radio, an online radio program. Previously he worked as a foreign correspondent for The Financial Times and Business Week, as a contributing editor for Institutional Investor, and as director of communications and external relations for the World Water Council. He served four years as president of the São Paulo Foreign Correspondents Association and has contributed to a broad range of publications, including ARTnews, Metropolis, National Wildlife, Science, The Lancet and The Nation. Hinchberger Consulting offers services to meet the communications and editorial needs of international organizations, NGOs and companies. These include conference reporting, production of case studies of success, media strategy development and training. In 2009 assignments took Hinchberger beyond Brazil and France to Argentina, Belgium, India, Sweden, Switzerland and Turkey. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and an M.A. in Latin American Studies, both from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a participant in National Geographic's Destination Stewardship Survey and a member of the editorial board of Mercado Ético (Ethical Markets), a multimedia project about sustainable development in Brazil.

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Tourism Development on the Online Travel Guide BrazilMax.com

Published 28th March 2010 - 2 comments - 3399 views -

BrazilMax.com is an award-winning online travel guide to Latin America’s largest country. I am the founding editor. Over the years, in addition to more conventional tips, we have tried to feature projects and initiatives that contribute to grassroots development. Here are some of those we have appeared so far.

Prainha do Canto Verde, Ceará: Community Tourism in a Fishing Village

Rubber Tapping Amazon Tour

Pirarucu: Saving the Giant Fish in Mamirauá

Favela Tours in Rio de Janeiro

Daspu: Streetwalker Fashion from Rio de Janeiro

The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST)

Denny Moore: A Fighting Chance for Indian Languages

Amazon Explorer: Interview with Sydney Possuelo

Sustainable Community Luthier Workshop in Manaus

Hyacinth Macaw Project: Saving Endangered Birds in the Pantanal

Brazilian Sex Workers Don’t Mourn, They Organize (including around HIV/AIDS)

Goiás Velho: Sustainability through Tourism

Curitiba, Brazil: Urban Renewal, Municipal Revitalization

Curitiba: Jaime Lerner’s Urban Acupuncture

Estrada Real (King’s Road): Historic Cities of Minas Gerais

Bento Gonçalves: Living Museum of Italian Immigration in Brazil

If you represent, or know about, a good community tourism project or tourism development initiative in Brazil that you think we should check out, please let us know by leaving a comment here or contact us directly via BrazilMax.com itself.

 

 


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