Our Mission

We implement our mission with the following activities, including:

• Organizing leadership missions to overseas markets that concentrates on Sister Cities and Study missions that may become targeted markets

• Assisting inbound business and government delegations and leaders visiting our region

• Hosting high-level speakers throughout the world for the Tampa Bay region internationally for trade and business

• Coordinating matchmaking opportunities for business to business to grow the Tampa Bay region

• Organizing educational programming for the public on topics related to international trade and protocol

• Helping firms that are members of the Council achieve their international business goals by building capacity

• Gathering information on companies and tourists that go to and from the region from different countries and targeting those countries for Tampa Bay growth.

• Building capacity for port, airport, tourism, and university in trade and protocol.