Dr. Wayne Engel,  who is PAII’s International Ambassador-at-large negotiated the agreement  this past year.  Dr. Engel is  Professor Emeritus at James Madison University and Owner of The Stonewall Jackson Inn at Harrisonburg in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.     As an expert, as well as Ambassador, he was invited by the State Department and the American Embassy to spend a week in Minsk with Dr. Klitsounova to consult, open relationship/doors  and negotiate the first outreach initiative to Europe’s eastern countries to cooperate in matters related to owning and operating a profitable Bed and Breakfast business.  As a result, Drs. Engel, Klitsounova and three aspiring interning  Innkeepers were invited and hosted by PAII for the official signing of the document of cooperation.            

Already in place, there is a pilot Internship Training Program in operation  at Dr. Engel’s Stonewall Jackson Inn B&B with the three young Aspiring  Belarusian Innkeepers.  These interns were specially selected by Dr. Klitsounova as the first of many other aspiring and experienced Innkeepers that will be placed in selected successful and training oriented B&B’s in the USA.  In return, an identical program is available in Belarus for our Innkeepers.  The two Associations are currently making a joint application to several private international foundations to fund and staff for  further development of the internship program, and to exchange research information and professional training resources.