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Dubai World Tourism Conference in 15 Minutes
This 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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
Environmental&Social Change in Nepal - Part 2Today'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 1In 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
Jewel Cave Undergound Soundseeing TourJewel Cave National Monument is located in the Black Hills of South Dakota, not far from Mount Rushmore. It is currently considered the second largest cave in the world (after Mammoth Cave in Kentucky), but only a small portion of ithas actually been mapped, so it may be the largest cave system in the world. (Click Here for more information.) I did the 1.5 hour tour of Jewel Cave last July and recorded the whole thing. I have edited it down to about 11 minutes, which I hope will ... 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
I Climbed Ayers Rock - I Did Not Climb UluruThere are two popular t-shirts that are sold at Ayers Rock/Uluru in the middle of the Outback of Australia. One says "I climbed Ayers Rock" the other says "I Did Not Climb Uluru". In today's podcast I talk about recent visit to Ayers Rock last summer, and about the issue of "to climb or not to climb." As interesting as this issue is, most of the podcast is actually an even more interesting soundseeing tour of the Wala Walk along the base ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Power, Politics and Tourism - Prof. C. Michael HallAnother Presentation from the Graduate Workshop on Researching Tourism in Asia, sponsored by the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore, and the Dept. of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand.Today's presentation by Prof. C. Michael Hall of the University of Otago, New Zealand (cmhall@business.otago.ac.nz). The title is:Studying the Political in Tourism: Ethics, Issues, Methods and PracticalitiesHere is the original abstract from the workshop:Issues of pol ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Defining Modernity in Asia (graduate research workshop)This week's Geography for Travelers podcast starts a series of recordings that I will be doing that come out of a couple of meetings that I attended in Singapore last week. The first was a graduate student workshop about doing research in Asia. I was one of four keynote speakers at that workshop, and today's podcast is an edited recording of my talk. The title was "Defining and Redefining Modenity in New Asia." Not exactly tourism, but closely related. ... Listen | 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
Tourism Tech Talk: Teaching TourismSomething 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
The Web 2.0 TravelscapeSomething new! I recorded the paper I presented at the conference I just got back from in Brisbane, Australia. This was at a meeting sponsored by the Tourism Commission of the International Geographical Union. The title of my paper was: "Travel 2.0: The Emerging Virtual Travelscape."Interestingly, when I asked how many people had heard of the concept of "Web 2.0," only two people in the 30 or so who were in attendance raised their hands. As a regu ... 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
Tourism&Geography News: Travel Literacy&Physical GeographyThis is another Tourism and Geography in the News episode, with a focus on two topics: Travel/Geographic Literacy and Physical Geography. In the travel and geographic literacy news stories, both the American Automobile Association and the National Geographic Society held their geography contest these past couple of weeks, and issued their geographic/travel literacy survey results, which once again showed how dismal geographic knowledge is among Americans.The physical geogr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Geography Travel News - Moms, Warnings, US Arrivals. Tea & DubaiToday is Mother's Day here in the US and I start with a story about the Best and Worst Countries in the world to be a mother today. Not really tourism, but the list of worst countries turn out to be mostly in Africa, which is also where half of the countries are located that are on the current list of Travel Warnings on the US State Department's website. Columbia is also on that list, but it is also on the Lonely Planet's list of Hot Destination for 2006. I then talk about ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Scuba Diving at Rocky Point (Puerto Penasco), MexicoToday's Geography for Travelers podcast is all about my first trip to Rocky Point (aka Puerto Penasco), Mexico. I also talk about my open water SCUBA dive certification, which was what the trip was mostly about.Length: 23min, 41secShownotes: http://travelgeography.blogspot.comPromo: AmateurTraveler podcastListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sensing Places Through Experiemental and Mis-Guide(d) TourismToday'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 WondersThis 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 AgentListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Managing Tourism Development with GISToday'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
Telluride, Colorado Winter Sound TourSpring Break brought me to the old mining town, and now upscale tourist and ski resort of Telluride, Colorado. With my less than trusty recorder in hand, I take you on an early morning walk through downtown Telluride, then up a chair lift to the Mountain Village resort area. I recorded some obervations while skiing down the 4.6 mile Galloping Goose run, and then some observations from my hotel room. Next week I will be back to my "normal" podcasts.
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Global Warming and Tourism, plus China's Great WallsThe news items in this podcast are all about China, including the Great Wall and the "Great Green Wall", which is designed to stem the rapidly expanding Gobi Desert.
This is followed by a discussion of projected impacts of global warming on the major tourism regions of the world.
Full show notes at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com
Length: 20min 54sec
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Travel & Geographic Knowledge, and Why Plan?No news items for this week. For weekly travel news, please visit my weekly Travelography podcast.
Rather than news, I discuss an article from my Tourism Geographies journal on the topic of travel and geographical (actually mapping) knowledge.
The main topic then switches to issues of private and public goods, and the justification for government planning and regulation. The goal in this discussion is to define the role of government in planning for tourism in a community -- and the re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sustainability & the Travel IndustryToday's podcast focusses on the concept of Sustainable Development as it applies to the Travel and Tourism Industry. The News portion covers some Travel Quotes, Space Travel and the Mekong River Tourism Project. Detailed Show Notes can be found at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com
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Travel & Tourism Numbers and News
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Travel & Tourism Numbers and News
News items include a new Jetlag advisor website (link below) and a discussion of Turin/Torino, Italy where the Winter Olympic Games just opened last week. I then focus the on tourist arrival and expenditure numbers and impacts, first at the global scale and then at the local scale. [Show Length = 17min, 36sec]
Links to websited related to this week's podcast:
Scots scientist sheds light on problem of jet-lag misery
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History of Sustainable DevelopmentTourism has played more of a role in the historical development of 'sustainable development' than you probably thought. Also discussed are Breakback Mountain movie tourism to Wyoming and Bali's slow tourism recovery from terrorist attacks. Shownotes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Tourism Issues in Developing EconomiesI discuss several travel news items, including 2006 being the Year of Study Abroad in the US, and efforts to stop Sex Tourism. Then I discuss issues realted to Sutainable Tourism Development in developing economies, with a focus on modernization. Show notes are at http://travelgeography.blogspot.com.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Sustainable Tourism PlanningNews 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.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Travel & Tourism News & TrendsIn this podcast I discuss atlases for travel, the top travel and tourism news and trends for 2005, and tourism and terrorism in 2005. Total length = 19min, 55sec. Show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
A Maui, Hawaii HolidayThis week's podcast discusses America's Playground", the Island of Maui in Hawaii, as well as some comments on owning a timeshare unit, and some sound scene clips from Hawaii. (Total Length: 33 minutes) Show notes can be found at http://www.travelgeography.blogspot.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Malaysia, China and TourismIn this podcast I discuss the recent issues related to Chinese tourism to Malaysia. (Total length: 36 min). Show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Malaysia, China and TourismIn this podcast I discuss the recent issues related to Chinese tourism to Malaysia. (Total length: 36 min). Show notes at http://travelgeography.blogspot.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Impressions of Shah Alam - MalaysiaA 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
Impressions of Shah Alam - MalaysiaA 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 TourismTotal 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
Geography of BrazilThis podcast covers Geographic Literacy, The Great Escape/Scavenger Hunt, Space Tourism, and the Geography of Brazil. (Ttoal Length: 32 min, 30 sec) Show notes are at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Space Tourism and the Geography of BrazilThis 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.comListen | Listen in your iPhone | |
