The Kansas City-Seville connection: welcoming international visitors to America's heartland

Business America, Jan 25, 1993 by David L. Edgell, Sr., Henry G. Riegner

On the business side, industrial and financial leaders conducted an international roundtable which included business interests, education, culture, and tourism experts from these two countries and the Sister Cities. In a first-time video teleconference, Seville Mayor Alejandro Rojas-Marcos and Kansas City Mayor Emanuel Cleaver exchanged ideas on the successes of Kansas City's participation at Expo '92 and how to capitalize on the recognition the city gained from its presence in Seville, and the future objectives to be anticipated in coming missions.

What then is the special wisdom of the friendship and leadership of Seville and Kansas City? It is, quite simply, that planning and perseverance are the keys two civic communities can trade together and work together as friends and colleagues, then their larger jurisdictions in Andalusia and Missouri and Greater Kansas City can work together within t he framework of two nations: in industry and trade, especially in the cheerful window on the world of travel and tourism. For the user of these social and economic goods, the wonder of trade in tourism is that this magnificent business is also fun!