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THERE is one country that will stand apart from all others in the international tourism market over the coming decade.

On his way back down south for another vintage David Pike turns his mind to the weighty topic of the emergence of regionality in WA's wine growing centres.

FEDERAL Government pressures and proposed new access laws could bring a multi-billion dollar boost to WA's renewable energy industry.

FIFTY-SEVEN financial institutions currently provide approximately 720 different debt finance products for small business, according to research group Cannex.

CONSIDER It Done Personal Concierge Service – the name of this Subiaco business says it all.

THE loan products available to small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) have changed substantially over the past few years.

THE next serve of snapper you buy may never have been in the ocean.

AS January 2003 recedes we approach the Gallop Government's half-way mark.

MORE than 25 different species are farmed in aquaculture enterprises in WA, according to the WA Fishing Industry Council.

COMPANIES often spend thousands of dollars registering a domain name but many remain unaware that it can be lost overnight through simple administrative errors.

ONE of the big movers in the IT sector this year will be the mass adoption of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, according to technology analyst groups.

THE University of WA has adopted the Callista Student Management system to replace technology developed in-house.

WA telecommunications management company Stratatel Limited has signed two new MobileFleet clients.

AMNET Limited has signed a licence agreement with RMIT University to conduct the RMIT English Worldwide course at Amnet's Chongqing HaiLan University in China.

IT may have recently been hailed as a benchmark for community broadcasting, but WA's nearly four year old Channel 31 is fighting for its life.

The Australian economy is constantly changing, with new industries emerging to replace the old. Mark Beyer looks at the forces driving change and identifies sectors with high growth prospects.

WESTERN Australian artists are being invited to apply for industry development funds to produce short animation works.

THE decision to name Professor Fiona Stanley as Australian of the Year is a very important one for WA.

A LOOK at the history of Perth's top architectural sector reveals a past full of expansion and cannibalistic mergers.

A RECENTLY formed WA company is making significant strides in its quest to find a treatment to arrest Alzheimer's disease. UWA research offshoot Alzhyme Pty Ltd has a patent pending on its research and has secured investment to further its research.

A PERTH company is developing a treatment that may provide a breakthrough for sufferers of tinnitus.

COOL Energy is running hot. The company, which was formed three months ago, is enjoying the fruits of LNG research breakthroughs by Curtin University Professor Robert Amin.

Dr Tan said the best scientific results were achieved when there was cross fertilisation.

WHILE a sense of gloom pervades the local advertising industry, the news from the marketing industry is much more positive.

FORMER Marketforce advertising general manager Paul Yole has joined Gatecrasher as an account director and strategic planner.

TWO Western Australian companies have been taken to court for misleading advertising, one by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the other by the

THE Town of Victoria Park has thought outside the circle in its efforts to find a manager for the Swan Portland site.

THERE was limited but steady growth for Perth's architectural firms last year as the five largest names continued to dominate the top end of the market.

WA'S poor performance in the latest Cooperative Research Centres (CRC) program funding is a reflection of the State's inability to compete for Commonwealth funding, according to academics spoken to by WA Business News. The CRC is the nation's major coll

PROVIDING seed funding, encouraging better collaboration between universities and industry, and promoting WA as a R&D hub are vital if WA is to make it into the big league.

There's nothing like immersing yourself in a culture to discover the wonders of its culinary traditions, and an upcoming visit to Italy is bound to appeal, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.