An organization that stands outside politics across national boundaries, in service to those who develop and facilitate international trade. With its unique global mission and membership, the WTCA has been a world leader in creating innovative service for international business.
-- WTCA mission statement
While the New York one has gained some notoriety
as of late, "World Trade Center" is
in fact an international brand for what the
World Trade Center Association (WTCA)
terms "business shopping centers".
The usual tenants are export-oriented companies and
government agencies, who get (usually) a very central location,
access to the WTCA's databases and reciprocal facilities, hosting for services like
Internet access, translation and (especially in the developing world) even things like electricity
and physical security.
As of April 2002 there are over 300 WTCs scattered around the world in
almost 100 countries, a snapshot of which follows:
Abu Dhabi,
Abuja,
Aden,
Algiers,
Almere,
Amman,
Amsterdam,
Anchorage,
Ankara,
Antwerp,
Arnhem Nijmegen,
Aruba,
Athens,
Atlanta,
Baghdad,
Bahrain,
Baja California Greater Tijuana,
Baltimore,
Bangalore,
Bangkok,
Barcelona,
Barranquilla,
Basel,
Basel Af,
Beijing,
Beijing China,
Beirut,
Belfast,
Belgrade,
Berlin,
Bogota,
Bordeaux,
Boston,
Bratislava,
Bremen,
Brescia East Lombardy,
Bridgeport,
Brisbane,
Brno,
Brussels,
Bucharest,
Bucharest Victoria,
Budapest,
Buenos Aires,
Cairo,
Calcutta,
Cali,
Cardiff,
Charleston,
Chengdu Af,
Chicago,
Chongqing Af,
Cleveland,
Club Hong Kong AF,
Cochin,
Coimbra,
Colombo,
Curacao,
Curitiba,
Cyprus,
DaeGu,
Dallas Ft Worth,
Damascus,
Delhi Gurgaon,
Denver,
Detroit Windsor,
Doha,
Dresden,
Dubai,
Dublin,
Dusseldorf,
Edinburgh,
Edmonton,
Eindhoven,
Ekaterinburg,
El Paso Juarez,
Fort Lauderdale,
Frankfurt,
Frankfurt Oder,
Gaza,
Gdynia,
Geneva,
Genoa,
Ghent Af,
Glasgow,
Gothenburg,
Great Plains,
Greenville Spartanburg,
Grenoble,
Guadalajara,
Guangzhou Af,
Guarulhos,
Guayaquil,
Haikou,
Halifax,
Hamburg,
Hangzhou,
Hannover,
Havana,
Heerlen,
Helsinki,
Hengdian,
Hong Kong,
Honolulu,
Houston,
Hudson Valley,
Iasi,
Inchon,
Indianapolis,
Istanbul,
Jacksonville,
Jakarta,
Johannesburg,
Jonkoping,
Kansas City,
Kaohsiung,
Karachi,
Katowice,
Kiel,
Kolkata,
Kuala Lumpur,
Kuwait,
KwangJu,
Lagos,
Las Vegas,
Lausanne,
Le Havre,
Leeuwarden,
Leipzig,
Lexington,
Lille,
Lima,
Lisbon,
Ljubljana,
London,
Long Beach,
Los Angeles,
Lugano,
Luxembourg,
Lyon,
Macau,
Madrid,
Makkah,
Malaga,
Mallorca,
Malpensa Airport,
Malta,
Managua,
Manaus,
Manila,
Marseille,
Martinique,
Masan,
McAllen,
Medellin,
Melbourne,
Memphis,
Messina,
Metz,
Mexico City,
Miami,
Milan,
Milton Keynes,
Milwaukee,
Minsk,
Mississippi Jackson,
Missoula,
Monaco,
Monterrey,
Montevideo,
Montpellier,
Montreal,
Moscow,
Mumbai,
Munich,
Muscat,
Nanjing Af,
Nantes,
Naples,
Nassau Bahamas,
New Delhi Af,
New Orleans,
New York,
Niagara,
Nice Sophia Antipolis,
Norfolk,
Novosibirsk,
Odessa,
Okinawa,
Orange County Irvine,
Orlando,
Osaka,
Osaka AF,
Oslo,
Ottawa,
Oxnard,
Palm Beach,
Palm Springs,
Panama,
Paris,
Pearl River Delta,
Penang,
Pernambuco,
Philadelphia,
Phnom Penh,
Pittsburgh,
Podgorica,
Pointe a Pitre,
Port Said,
Portland,
Poznan,
Prague,
Providence,
Puebla,
Pusan,
PyongYang,
Quito,
Raleigh Durham,
Ribeirao Preto,
Riga,
Rijeka,
Rio de Janeiro,
Riyadh,
Rome,
Rostock,
Rotterdam,
Ruhr Valley,
Sacramento,
Salzburg,
San Antonio,
San Diego,
San Francisco,
San Jose,
San Juan,
San Marino,
San Salvador,
Santander,
Santiago,
Santo Domingo AF,
Sao Paulo,
Sapporo,
Sarajevo,
Schenectady,
Schiphol Airport,
Seattle,
Seoul,
Sevilla,
Shanghai,
Sharjah,
Shenyang,
Shenzhen,
Singapore,
Skopje,
Sofia,
Sofia Af,
Southampton,
Split,
St Louis,
St Paul,
St Petersburg,
Stockholm,
Strasbourg,
Stuttgart,
Surabaya,
Sydney,
Tabasco,
Tacoma,
TaeJon,
Taichung,
Taipei,
Tallinn,
Tambore,
Tampa Bay,
Tashkent AF,
Tel Aviv,
Tenerife,
The Hague,
Thessaloniki,
Tokyo,
Tokyo AF,
Toronto,
Trieste,
Tripoli,
Tunis,
Turku,
Ulan Bator,
Utrecht,
Valencia,
Valencia Venezuela,
Vancouver,
Veracruz,
Verona,
Vienna,
Vienna Airport,
Vigo,
Vilnius,
Warsaw,
Washington DC,
Washington Dulles Airport AF,
Wichita,
Wilmington DE,
Zagreb,
Zurich
The WTCA is a non-profit organization that sponsors the
WTC Corps, a volunteer corps that teaches basic business skills
around the world, and the WTC University, a distance-learning
initiative.
References
http://www.wtca.org