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Diving at Lembeh Strait, IndonesiaThis podcast is a series of four audio postcards that I made in May 2008 when I went diving at the Lembeh Strait near the city of Manado on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. This is near the center of the Coral Triangle of Southeast Asia. They were originally published on my travelography 2.0 podcast. Here, I have combined them into a single podcast.Photos from the trip described here can be found on my Flickr.com site. The homepage for this podcast is at TravelGeography.info ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Visit to The Tunis MedinaThis podcast is part one of my audio diary of a recent trip to Tunisia. In this podcast I talk about two trips that I made to the Tunis Medina. This is the old market area next to downtown Tunis, and is a UNESCO World Heritage site. I also talk about the conference that I attended near the Tunis suburb of Carthage.A Powerpoint slideshow of the Tunis Medina can be found here.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Dubai World Tourism Conference in 15 MinutesThis is a soundseeing (sst) tour from the World Travel and Tourism Council Summit in Dubai (20-22 April 2008) that I attended. It includes three elements: About 5 minutes from an Intro to Dubai city tour, A short and interesting segment of a presentation from the conference, and A segment of the Gala Dinner, which closes with my visit to a fortune teller (entertainment for the dinner guests).
The whole presentation is about 20 minutes due to my introduction section. The ac ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Planning Theory and Tourism Planners: A DisconnectPlanning 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.infoListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Melbourne's Pengiuns -- and a whole lot moreIn 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
Defining Place AuthencityDefining 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/slideshowsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Utterz from Northern Finland and SwedenTravel Geography Podcast #61The December Travel Geography Podcast is a compilation of mini Utterz.com podcasts that I posted during my trip to Finland and Sweden. The trip was from November 28 to December 10. Utterz.com is a free podcasting service on which you can post unlimited mini-podcasts -- sort of like an audio Twitter. The Utterz episodes that I have have compiled here include:My first impressions of being in a place with only 4 hours of sunliteA noon time wal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy DornanToday'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
Ecotourism and the Grand Canyon, with Prof. Claudia JurowskiIn today's podcast I interview Professor Claudia Jurowski of Northern Arizona University about her involvement with BEST Education Network and her research on different types of tourists to the Grand Canyon National Park, with some focus on the slippery topic of ecotourism and the ecotourist. Claudia teaches in the NAU School of Hotel and Restaurant Management (not Hotel and Tourism Management, as I stated in the podcast intro -- oops!)To see the Grand Canyon Visitor Study (upon which ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Mike Pesses on Authentic Spaces of Bicycle TourismThis is another presentation from the Association of American
Geographers annual meeting in San Francisco, California, April 12-21,
2007. Here is the abstract from the AAG.org website:Author: Michael W. Pesses - California State University, NorthridgeAbstract: In
the past thirty years, bicycle touring has become a legitimate form of
tourism. This paper serves as an attempt to examine bicycle touring as
an "authentic" form of tourism as well as to examine how the trip
affects the b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Discussing Tourism and Ethics (Part 2)This is the discussion that followed Professor David Fennell's presentation on Tourism and Ethics at the AAG Annual Meeting in April 2007. To hear the presentation, go to show #57 at http://TravelGeography.info - where you can find the full show notes for Geography for Travellers.AND to both Hear and See his presentation as a Slidecast, go to http://Slideshare.net/alewListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Teaching Tourism with Social SoftwareToday's podcast is a presentation that I gave at the NAU eLearning Institute in May, 2007. I gave a 1 hour presentation on how I used social media, especially blogs, podcasts and wikis, to teach an online class in Spring 2007. The class was titled "Planning for Sustainable Tourism."Total Length: 54m 48secHere are some links related to this presentation:- Course outline posted on Web20Teach blog- Elluminate.com- InnerToob.com- My Slideshare.net page - Powerpoint slides ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ethics and Sustainable Tourism -- with David Fennell - part 1Today's Geography for Travelers Podcast is a recording of a presentation by Prof. David Fennell of Brock University at the annual meeting of the Assocaiation of American Geographers, 17-22 April 2007. The title of his presentation is:Ethics: We're Stuck With It [in Tourism]...Whether We Like It Or Not! This was a 45 minute plenary presentation sponsored by my journal, Tourism Geographies, and funded by the journal's publisher, Routledge/Taylor and Francis, Ltd.Part 1 of this podcast i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Soundseeing Trip to China's DanxiashanDanxiashan is a sandstone mountain region adjacent to the city of Shaoguan in northern Guangdong Province in China (north of Hong Kong). The landform is similar to the sandstone regions of northern Arizona (Sedona) and southern Utah, but in a subtropical vegetation zone. I was at the Danxiashan World Geopark last week and recorded this week's Geography for Travelers Podcast while hiking around on the top of one of the more visited peaks.My photos of Danxiashan and the surrounding area ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Student Podcasts: Maui, New York's Hudson Valley, Tourism News, and Yosemite NPThree NAU students podcast on Maui, New York's Hudson Valley, Tourism News, and and Yosemite National Park.Show notes at http://TravelGeography.infoLength: 25min 57secListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ecotourism Concerns in Russia's Altay - with Kathleen BradenToday's Geography for Travelers Podcast is a recording of a presentation made at April's Association of American Geographers Conference in San Francisco. Dr. Braden points out the pressures to develop ecotourism for economic purposes, challenges of corruption, and concern over policies of international organizations such as WWF. Below is the abstract from her paper as posted in the conference program.(Length: 26min 33sec)The Impact of Nature Tourism on Biodiversity Change in the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Geography and Tourism Road Trip, with Victor Teye & Dallen TimothyToday's Geography for Travelers podcast is a recording that I made a few days ago when I was driving back to Arizona after the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers in San Francisco. My two travel companions were Prof. Victor Teye and Prof. Dallen Timothy, both of who are geographers who teach tourism classes at Arizona State University. The three of us discuss how we personally perceive the relationship between Tourism and the discipline of Geography. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tourism at the Geographers Big Meeting in San FranciscoIn today's podcast I give an overview of the 115 (updated number) tourism-related presentations that will be part of the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 17-21 April 2007, in San Francisco.- Regular show notes can be found at http://TravelGeography.info- Email Me at: TravelGeographer @ gmail.com- Blubbery Jam for Cystic Fibrosis - Please Donate- Checkout the IndieTravelPodcast.com25min, 27 secCreative Commons Copyright: non-commercial, attribution, share-alikePAPER ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Ben Ayers - Insights on Social Change in Nepal's KhumbuThis month's podcast is one of the interviews from our recent trip to Nepal. We administered the inteview to Ben Ayers, the founder of Porter's Progress, an NGO devoted to supporting the porter who carry heavy loads ontheir backs up the Khumbu Valley of Nepal. Today he works for the dZi Foundation, a community development NGO that works throughout the Himalaya region.Please support these worthwhile organizations:Porter's ProgressdZi FoundationListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Doing Tourism Research in NepalToday's podcast talks about my activities since arriving in Nepal on January 1, 2007. It is basically divided into three parts:Part 1 - I discuss the administration of our photograph survey in Nepal and some of he challenges and adjustments made in doing thatPart 2 - I talk about trekking in the Khumbu (Everest) region of Nepal, where about half of the interviews took placePart 3 - There is a short soundseeing clip from the Durba (Castle) Square of Patan, a city just south of Kathmand ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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