By Gemma Greenwood

The travel trade is being urged to support a number of initiatives designed to support Haiti in the country’s hour of need.

Haiti-born Jean-Marc Flambert, director of Your Tourism Partner and former head of the Sri Lankan Tourism Board, has already put together an action plan to help his country following Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake and is hoping the industry will get behind it.

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By Andrew Cawthorne, Reuters

PORT-AU-PRINCE — Crumbled walls cover priceless works of Haitian art. There are dead bodies outside the entrance. Food will run short soon.

Following the devastating earthquake that wrecked Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, the once-elegant Hotel Villa Creole, set on a hillside with lush tropical vegetation, is still, astonishingly, open for business.

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