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Travel and tourism news, the geography of places and regions, and social sciences perspectives on the travel experience and tourism development. Primary Format : Travel Language : English Also Listed as: City : Flagstaff State/Province : AZ Country : USA Region : NA User Tags: User Votes: RSS Feed Website People found this Podcast Searching for: View this Podcast on a Google Map. Podcast iTunes Link Text Only listing of Geography for Travelers Podcasts Methings.com listings of Geography for Travelers Podcasts If you like this podcast, you might also like:

Defining Place Authencity Defining Place Authenticity: My Heritage Can Beat Up Your HistoryThis is a recording of a classroom presentation made by me in April 2008.  The entire podcast is 50+ minutes long.The powerpoint slides can be found here:http://www.slideshare.net/alew/slideshows Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy Dornan Today's podcast is the last of my recordings from the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held in San Francisco, CA in April 2007.   I also talk about changing the name of the Geography for Travelers Podcast to the Travel Geography Podcast.And I talk about my new Travelography 2.0 Podcast for NaPodPoMo on Utterz.com.Length: 36min 03secAbstract Title from the AAG.org website: Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Centurytrave Author: D'Arcy J. Dorna ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental&Social Change in Nepal - Part 2 Today's podcast is part two of my discussion of a research project that I am undertaking in Nepal.  This first podcast in this series discussed the "problem statement" -- the environmental and social change issues and how we framed them.  In today's podcast I discuss our research methodology and the theoretical rational for the methodology.  We will be using photographs to elicit responses from residents Kathmandu and the Khumbu region.  Theoretically, the meth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Environmental & Social Change in Nepal - Part 1 In today's podcast I discuss a research project that I will be undertaking in Nepal.  This is the first in a series of podcasts that will take you through my experience in initiating and doing this field research.  This first podcast discusses the "problem statement" -- the issues and how we framed them.It is based on a proposal that I wrote with two colleagues this past summer to the US National Science Foundation.  The proposed research was to examine the percepti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Melbourne's Pengiuns -- and a whole lot more In this week's Geography for Travelers podcast I talk about my recent visit to Melbourne, Australia. We did a lot during outr three full days there, but the highlight for me was the Penguine Parade on Phillip Island, south of Melbourne.  There are a few soundseeing audio clips sprinkled in the podcast that I hope you will find of interest.  You can find photos and a travel diary of my Melbourne visit at both VCarious.com and MyLifeOfTravel.com.This is a long one -- 41min, 40 sec. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tourism Tech Talk: Teaching Tourism Something really different this week.  Like last week, this one comes from my recent trip to Australia and the conference I attended in Brisbane.  David Timothy Duval (University of Otago, New Zealand) and I skipped out of a session of papers to sit down and talk about how we use technology in our tourism classes, and in everyday life.  I cut a few things out of our over and hour discussion, but I also inserted a few clarifications.  We cover a lot of territory, from pod ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Planning Theory and Tourism Planners: A Disconnect Planning theory is a subject that uban planning students love to hate.  However, most tourism planners have never even heard of it -- at least that is my impression from tourism planning textbooks.  I think planning theory has important lessons for tourism planning, and that is what this rather lengthy (27min 35 sec) podcast is all about.http://travelgeography.info Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sensing Places Through Experiemental and Mis-Guide(d) Tourism Today's podcast starts off with some geography and tourism news items, including plans for a borderless East Africa, the Global Tourism Intervention Forum, 2005 hurricane names being retired, and the April 18, 1906 San Francisco earthquake anniversay.  I then focus the discussion on a review of the newly published A Mis-Guide to Anywhere, which is a guidebook to experiemental tourism.  I finally talk about how experiemental tourism relates to academic tourism studies of how travel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Tourism Policy Planning & the Seven Endangered Wonders This week's podcast first discusses Newsweek's list of th Seven Most Endangered Wonders of the World (I spend more time on this than I did on the Travelography podcast).  Then I move into the focuson Tourism Policy Planning, which I conclude with a couple of examples from the Cherokee and Hopi Indian Reservations.Show Length: 23min, 58secFull Show Notes at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.comPromo: Home Based Travel Agent Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Managing Tourism Development with GIS Today's podcast discusses traditional rsource management approaches that are used the monitor and manage tourism and travel development and impacts, with a special focus on GIS.  Total length: 30min 19sec.  Full show notes are at http://travelgeography.infoThis version fixes the sample rate so the speed is correct for most .mp3 players. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sustainable Tourism Planning News items include the impacts of terrorism on UK residents' travel plans, drought in East Africa, and Bigfoot in Malaysia. Most of the 16min 30secs, however, are devoted to an introduction to Sustainable Tourism Planning. Show notes are at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Malaysia, China and Tourism In this podcast I discuss the recent issues related to Chinese tourism to Malaysia. (Total length: 36 min). Show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Impressions of Shah Alam - Malaysia A short, 12 minute, look at Shah Alam -- the capitol of the state of Selangor in Malaysia. Includes of soundscene of the playground and Blue Mosque on the town lake. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Social Impacts of Travel and Tourism Total Length: 29 min, 55 sec - Show notes can also be found at:  http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/2005/11/social-impacts-of-travel-and-tourism.htmlIn the podcast I commented on the Responsible Tourism awards, and Iquoted a remark made at those awards about the fact that althoughconsumers are more aware of sustainable (social and environmental)issues today, this is not yet seen as a major marketing advantage bytour companies. Related to this, Scott McCabe of the Sheffield HallamUnive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Space Tourism and the Geography of Brazil This podcast covers Geographic Literacy, The Great Escape/Scavenger Hunt, Space Tourism, and the Geography of Brazil. (Total Length: 32 min, 30 sec) Show notes are at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travel and Tourism in China This week's podcast is focussed exclusively on China, including all of the news items. Please visit the show notes at http://travelgeographer.blogspot.com (Total Length = 33 minutes) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Travel, Tourism and the Environment Today's podcast focuses on the natural environment: how tourists relateto the natural environment, the impacts of tourism on the naturalenvironment, and closing with a few words on ecotourism.Ecotourism-- Personally, I prefer to pronounce ecotourism as 'ee-co-tourism' -with a long 'e', which I derive from the world "ecology." Some people(maybe the majority?) prefer to say 'e-co-tourism' - with a short 'e',as in 'elephant'. I assume they are basing this on the word'ecosystem', whic ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Wilma and Cozumel, Mexico - Part 2: Tourism Impacts This is Part 2 of an interview with my sister who was in Cozumel during Hurricane Wilma. In Part 2 we discuss how other visitors survived the hurricane, how the city recovered from the hurricane, and the trials of leaving Cozumel after the hurricane. (SHOW LENGTH: 19min 14sec) Show Note are at http://www.travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Wilma and Cozumel, Mexico - Part 2: Tourism Impacts This is Part 2 of an interview with my sister who was in Cozumel during Hurricane Wilma. In Part 2 we discuss how other visitors survived the hurricane, how the city recovered from the hurricane, and the trials of leaving Cozumel after the hurricane. (SHOW LENGTH: 19min 14sec) Show Note are at http://www.travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Wilma and Cozumel, Mexico - Part 1: Surviving the Big One This is part 1 of an interview with my sister who was on the island of Cozumel, Mexico when Hurricane Wilma passed over it. Part 1 discusses her experience in living through the worst of the hurricane. (TOTAL LENGTH 24min 30sec)- Show notes are at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Hurricane Wilma and Cozumel, Mexico - Part 1: Surviving the Big One This is part 1 of an interview with my sister who was on the island of Cozumel, Mexico when Hurricane Wilma passed over it. Part 1 discusses her experience in living through the worst of the hurricane. (TOTAL LENGTH 24min 30sec)- Show notes are at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding Tourist Attractions Travel news and a discussion of how social scientists vies tourist attractions. Show notes: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Understanding Tourist Attractions Travel news and a discussion of how social scientists vies tourist attractions. Show notes: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sub-Saharan Africa Geography and Travel / Tourism Travel and Tourism News & Comments, and an Intro to the Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. See Show Notes at htt-://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Sub-Saharan Africa Geography and Travel / Tourism Travel and Tourism News & Comments, and an Intro to the Geography of Sub-Saharan Africa. See Show Notes at htt-://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography for Travelers Promo My New Promo (45 seconds long) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography for Travelers Promo My New Promo (45 seconds long) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Middle East Geography and Travel Travel and Tourism News, Geography of the Middle East (defined as Central Asia, Southwest Asia, and North Africa). See full show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Middle East Geography and Travel Travel and Tourism News, Geography of the Middle East (defined as Central Asia, Southwest Asia, and North Africa). See full show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography of New Orleans A general geography of New Orleans, intended to provide a context to be many news stories following Hurricane Katrina. Please visit the show notes at Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography of New Orleans A general geography of New Orleans, intended to provide a context to be many news stories following Hurricane Katrina. Please visit the show notes at Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography for Travelers promo This is the promo clip for my Geography for Travelers podcast. It last one minute and seven seconds. Support page: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Geography for Travelers promo This is the promo clip for my Geography for Travelers podcast. It last one minute and seven seconds. Support page: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/ Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching Up Excuses why I have not posted a podcast in three weeks AND why I will be doing it weekly starting NEXT week! Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Catching Up Excuses why I have not posted a podcast in three weeks AND why I will be doing it weekly starting NEXT week! Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daylight Saving Time Comments on the proposal in the US Congress to extend the time period for Daylight Saving Time. Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Daylight Saving Time Comments on the proposal in the US Congress to extend the time period for Daylight Saving Time. Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comment: Terrorism and Tourism - Sharm El Sheik, Egypt Comments on the Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, terrorist attack and the resilience of tourism demand in the face of such disasters.Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Comment: Terrorism and Tourism - Sharm El Sheik, Egypt Comments on the Sharm El Sheik, Egypt, terrorist attack and the resilience of tourism demand in the face of such disasters.Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Started with Blogs&Podcasts The First Podcast in the Geography for Travelers blog. Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting Started with Blogs&Podcasts The First Podcast in the Geography for Travelers blog. Please go to http://travelgeography.blogspot.com for program notes. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website