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:

1. About 5 minutes from an Intro to Dubai city tour,
2. A short and interesting segment of a presentation from the conference, and
3. 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 actual Dubai part is 14 minutes.

Defining Place Authenticity: My Heritage Can Beat Up Your History

This 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

Travel Geography Podcast #61

The 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:

1. My first impressions of being in a place with only 4 hours of sunlite
2. A noon time walk on the University of Oulu campus to find the sun
3. Report on our post-conference field trip to Santa Claus Land at the Arctic Circle and to the World Cup Ski competition at the Ruka Ski Resort near the Russian border
4. A report on my job as a Ph.D. "Opponent" and the party that followed
5. Some thoughts while in transit back to the US, and my jetlag after returning to Arizona, and
6. A weather report update and news story about a new tourist attraction in Sweden

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 03sec

Abstract Title from the AAG.org website:
Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Centurytrave

Author: D'Arcy J. Dornan, Ph.D. - Central Connecticut State University

Abstract:
Geography departments are seemingly well positioned to take advantage of the growth in the popularity of tourism as a field of study. The ever-growing international reputation of the journal Tourism Geographies is a good case in point if we can use this journal's success as an indicator of this trend. This paper aims to evaluate and discuss the impacts of academic managerialism and capitalism and related processes to the development of programs, both academic and professional, relating to the geography of tourism, the geography of tourism and hospitality, and to the professional development of tourism. Concrete and recent examples of the aforementioned program types will be drawn from program development efforts in both California and Connecticut. These 'case studies' will be examined and used to illustrate their significant impacts on the growth of this field within geography. Additional comments and conclusions will be taken from one of last year's panel discussions on a different but related topic entitled: 'Tourism geography: lost realities and prospective opportunities,' which sought to assess the current situation and future trends in the academic tourism geographer community in its ability to meet the needs and challenges of the tourism and hospitality industry and of academia.

Keywords:
tourism, geography, impacts, California, Connecticut

Today'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 48sec

Here are some links related to this presentation:
- Course outline posted on Web20Teach blog
- Elluminate.com
- InnerToob.com
- My Slideshare.net page - Powerpoint slides and forthcoming Slidecast for this podcast
--- Slides for this presentation
--- Bicycle Touring slidecast (from the 30 June 2007 G4T podcast)
- My Twitter

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/alew

Today'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 is the actual presentation.  Part 2 of this podcast will is the questions and answers that followed the presentation.  I will post that in about 1 to 2 weeks as a separate podcast.

ALSO - This podcast will be linked to David's Powerpoint slides on Slideshare.net in what they call a Slidecast.  You can find this Slidecast at: http://www.slideshare.net/alew.

Here is ht abstract of David Fennell's presentation from the conference program:

Original Show Notes for this podcast are at: http://TravelGeography.info

Danxiashan 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 can be found here:
- http://flickr.com/photos/alew/tags/danxiashan/

The Geography for Travelers Podcast is found at http://travelgeography.info

This 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, Northridge

Abstract:
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 bicycle tourist's sense of identity. Through a qualitative analysis of the journals of bicycle tourists, this paper will look into how authentic space and authentic experiences affect the individual's concept of identity and self. The authenticity of the toured space is in constant tension with existential authenticity; one cannot exist without the other in bicycle touring. To find meaning in one's travels, and consequently in one's life, both forms of authenticity are constantly being challenged by the experience and the landscape.

Three NAU students podcast on Maui, New York's Hudson Valley, Tourism News, and and Yosemite National Park.

Show notes at http://TravelGeography.info

Length: 25min 57sec