Fri, 23 May 2008 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:
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Wed, 28 November 2007 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 Direct download: G4T-TGPod-60-28Novt07-TourismGeographies-DArcyDornan.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 2:57 PM |
Wed, 19 September 2007 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 Direct download: G4T-58-19Sep07-DiscussingEthicsAndTourism.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 8:09 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 30 August 2007 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: Trivers' (1971) theory of reciprocal altruism, emerging from animal behaviour studies, is premised on the belief that human social behaviour is said to have evolved in relatively small, stable communities where groups of people had opportunities to forge cooperative relationships over time through repeated interaction. The more time we have to engage in altruistic acts—acts that are returned in kind— the better chance for individuals and groups to set up longer term cooperative relationships. Cooperation of this sort can be challenged in tourism because of limited interactions based on restricted periods of time, with implications at the micro scale (tourist-host interactions) and at the macro scale (collective interactions within the region as a whole). Despite these challenges, ethics and trust have emerged from reciprocal altruism as mechanisms that induce both short-term and long-term cooperative relationships for mutual benefit. Implications of these relationships are discussed in the context of generating ways to improve cooperation for the tourism industry as a whole. Original Show Notes for this podcast are at: http://TravelGeography.infoKeywords: ethics, reciprocal altruism, cooperation Direct download: G4T-57-30Aug07-EthicsAndTourism-DavidFennell.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 5:50 PM Comments[0] |
Thu, 17 May 2007 Today'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 Russian Federation scheduled on Tuesday, 4/17/07 at 16:00 PM. Author: Kathleen E. Braden, Ph.D. Geography - Seattle Pacific University Abstract: With more than twelve percent of the earth's land area, the Russian Federation's situation for species conservation will inevitably impact the biodiversity of the planet. Since the devolution of the Soviet state, biodiversity has been poorly maintained in Russia, with an increasing number of species under threat of extinction. The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, international environmental NGOs, the United Nations Development Programme, and the World Bank Global Environmental Facility have all earmarked the tourism sector to provide alternative incomes and alleviate some of the stress on biological resources. These plans are examined, particularly related to nature tourism, the Russian system of zapovedniki (reserves), the ability of the Russian state to attract foreign tourists, and the role of the wealthy tourist class emerging within the Russian elite. Keywords: tourism, Russia, biodiversity, nature reserve COMMENT - To leave comments on this podcast, please go to: http://TravelGeography.info Cheers, Alan Direct download: G4T-53_17May07_KathleenBraden-SiberiaEcotourism.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 1:06 PM |
Thu, 26 April 2007  Today'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. I removed some of the background noise using Soundsoap, and while not perfect, it is listenable. Length: 35min, 05sec Full show notes are at http://TravelGeography.info Released under a Creative Commons non-commercial, attribution, share-alike Copyright. Direct download: G4T-52_26April07_GeographyAndTourism-RoadTrip.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 12:33 PM |
Thu, 29 March 2007 In 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.com 25min, 27 sec Creative Commons Copyright: non-commercial, attribution, share-alike PAPER TITLES WITH THE KEYWORDS: TOUR, TOURIST & TOURISM - at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 17-21 April 2007
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Tue, 27 February 2007 This 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 on their 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: Direct download: G4T-50_27Feb2007_BenAyers-PortersProgress.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 9:40 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 14 January 2007 Today'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 that Part 2 - I talk about trekking in the Khumbu (Everest) region of Nepal, where about half of the interviews took place Part 3 - There is a short soundseeing clip from the Durba (Castle) Square of Patan, a city just south of Kathmandu Full travel blog entries that cover what I have been up to and how our research project is evolving can be found at: http://SEAsiaTourism.blogspot.com As susuall, show notes for this podcast are also found at: http://TravelGeography.info Enjoy.... Alan Comments[0] |
Thu, 28 December 2006 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 methodology is focussed on Social Exchange Theory. Full show notes are also found at: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/2006/12/environmental-social-change-in-nepal_28.html Comments[0] |
Sat, 9 December 2006 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 perceptions of Nepalis in the Khumbu region of Nepal (near Mt Everest) of environmental and social changes over the past 40 years. As a major trekking region, tourism is one of the key elements that we identify as affecting change in the Khumbu. Links to items cited in this podcast:
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Tue, 24 October 2006 In 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 Prof. Jurowski based her research study), go to the Tourism Library page of NAU's Arizona Hospitality Research and Resource Center. This site also contains many other tourism studies related to communities around the state of Arizona. Length: 29min, 26 sec Direct download: G4T-45_24Oct2006_ClaudiaJurowski_Ecotourism.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 11:36 PM Comments[0] |
Tue, 19 September 2006 Another 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 Practicalities Here is the original abstract from the workshop: Issues of politics and policy are widely regarded as a significant factor in tourism. However, the number of studies that examine such issues remain small in relation to the supposed importance of tourism policy and politics. The presentation will arguethat this situation exists because of the very nature of what such studies entail, i.e. examining issues of power, and therefore this may create substantial stresses in terms of the relationship of the researcher to their subjects and the institutional environment within which they operate. The presentation will discuss issues of method in examining tourism policy and politics and examine the practical dimensions of undertaking research that arise from different methods that are adopted and the aims and objectives of studies. Emphasis in placed on the importance of being aware of intended audiences for such research as well as the potential effects of such studies on research subjects, participants and other stakeholders, including the researcher. Key issues include the relative implications of prescriptive and descriptive approaches to policy analysis; describing power; and implications of scale of analysis. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of ethical considerations in conducting research on political issues in tourism and the importance of the development of policy arguments as a practical consequence of such research. _______________________________________________________ Michael Hall is Professor and Head of the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, Dunedin and Docent, Department of Geography, University of Oulu, Finland. He is the co-editor of Current Issues in Tourism and has published widely on issues of tourism, regional development and environmental history including three books on tourism policy and politics. Released under a Creative Commons Copyright - noncommercial, attribution, share-alike. Comments[0] |
Mon, 11 September 2006 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. The sound quality of the recording was not ideal, but I think I edited it to a level that can still be listened to. Let me know if I am wrong. The second meeting was a three-day conference on Asian tourism in Asia. I hope to put presentations by other people from both meetings up over the next couple of months, along with some soundseeing audio. Both meetings were sponsored by the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. Direct download: G4T40_11Sept2006_ModernityAndTourismInAsia.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 4:38 AM Comments[1] |
Wed, 19 July 2006 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 podcasting to blogging to wikis to RSS aggregators to social bookmarking, and more. The result is my longest podcast yet, at 1 hr, 5 min, 44 sec. I recorded this using my binaural microphones, with one mic set on one side of the coffee table and the other on the other side. The result is mildly stereophonic, though the telephone ringing at the end is very directional -- it sounds like it is on the table across my office everytime I hear it! Hopefully you will find it of interest, as David and I are planning to do this again, via Skype, and probably with a more narrowly defined focus. Blogpage: http://travelgeography.info Direct download: G4T-38_19July2006_TeachingTourismWithTechnology.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 1:03 AM Comments[0] |
Wed, 14 June 2006 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 Direct download: G4T36_14June2006_PlanningTheoryTourismPlanning.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 12:33 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 27 November 2005 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.html In the podcast I commented on the Responsible Tourism awards, and I quoted a remark made at those awards about the fact that although consumers are more aware of sustainable (social and environmental) issues today, this is not yet seen as a major marketing advantage by tour companies. Related to this, Scott McCabe of the Sheffield Hallam University in the UK posted this interesting item on an email list today: ~~~~~~~~~ From: McCabe, Scott Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 3:29 AM To: trinet-l@HAWAII.EDU Subject: RE: Tourism and Local Transportation Dear all, just a brief contribution to this debate, i read a brief article in a UK free newspaper the other day that UK consumers are not interested in sustainability issues when thinking about or taking holidays, and that whilst many people do worry about the environment and engage in recycling, energy saving etc in daily life - whilst they are on holiday they want to forget about these issues (i only read it briefly so apologies if i misquote). however - it raises a number of issues pertinent to this discussion: - perhaps consumers see environmental sustainability as an obligation and holidays are still valid as a means to escape everyday duties like these therefore sustainability should be the preserve of governments and industry to implement and it is wrong to assume that consumers will eventually demand sustainable tourism products ... - perhaps what is more important is making consumers aware of unfair/unethical/immoral practices - which is much more likely to effect a more responsible attitude from consumers, and then industry and governments alike? ~~~~~~~~~ Here are the links to sites mentioned in this week's podcast: * Responsible tourism is the way forward (Responsible Tourism Day at the World Travel Market) http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000065/006593.htm * Responsible Travel Forum (online; Feb 21-22, 2006) http://tinyurl.com/7en23 * Peace Corp finds renewed passion in volunteerism (full article now requires purchase!) http://localsearch.azcentral.com/sp?keywords=peace+corps+finds+renewed * World Citizens Guide http://worldcitizensguide.org/index2.html * Nude act of foreign tourist at holy place angers residents of Pushkar http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000062/006275.htm ** NEW: Inserted on 8 Dec 2005: Guidelines issued to facilitate foreigners� stay in Indian holy town http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000068/006836.htm * World Tourism Organization - Global Code of Ethics http://www.world-tourism.org/code_ethics/eng/global.htm This version fixes the sampling rate, providing a normal speed on .mp3 players. Comments[3] |
Thu, 6 October 2005 Today's podcast focuses on the natural environment: how tourists relate
to the natural environment, the impacts of tourism on the natural
environment, 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', which is sometimes (often?) pronounced with a short 'e'. Dictionary.com uses the long 'e' pronunciation, so perhaps I am in the majority. Total Length: 30 minutes, 19 seconds. If you have any thoughts on this feel free to leave a comment, or email me at travelgeographer@msn.com Here are the links to items mentioned in today's podcast: * Australia Garners Friendliest Nation in the World Award - Travel News Wire <http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000063/006311.htm> * Grand Canyon to Get Glass Bridge - National Geographic News <http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0826_050826_grandcanyon.html> * City OKs Subsidies for Downtown Hotel - Los Angeles Times <http://www.knowledgeplex.org/news/118690.html> * Cruise Ship Repels Somali Pirates - BBC News (also has a link to a video news clip) <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4409662.stm> * The Amateur Traveler Podcast <http://amateurtraveler.com/> Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 October 2005 World Tourism Day was September 27th -- I think it was an easy one to miss, unless you were in Quatar where the World Tourism Organization celebrated the event. Some, however, question whether or not tourism is really something that we should be celebrating... This podcast is a remix from a longer podcast originally posted on 2 October 2005. The remix was done for educational purposes (for my classes). Direct download: G4T-10_2Oct05_WorldTourismDay_and_Impacts_copy_1.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 1:52 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 2 October 2005 My Thanks to the group Turban Jones for the use of their song in my podcast. I hope you enjoy their song, Crazy Ways, which I play in its entirety at the end of the podcast. This podcast is a remix from a longer podcast originally posted on 2 October 2005. The remix was done for educational purposes (for my classes). Direct download: G4T-10_2Oct05_BaliBombings_and_TurbanJones.mp3 Category: Tourism -- posted at: 1:18 PM Comments[0] |
Sun, 11 September 2005 Today's podcast focused on some general definitions of leisure, and how these give us some insight into the tourist experience. In addition to what I mentioned in the podcast, I wanted to point out that religion is often considered a leisure-form of activity. This is, I think, directly related to the definition of leisure as a state of mind. Furthermore, there is a concept that has gained in popularity in recent years known as work, or volunteer, tourism. It is also know as working holidays, or working vacations. Last year I had students in my class examine web sites that promoted working vacations, and then answer some questions about them. Would you want to go on a working vacation? Isn't that an oxymoron?
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Sun, 11 September 2005 Information on the The Dark Tourism Forum (http://www.dark-tourism.org.uk/). This was originally posted as part of a longer podcast on 11 September 2005. I edited the original file for teaching purposes, and am reposting this segment here. (3min 38sec long) Comments[1] |
Mon, 29 August 2005 Why Geography and Tourism? - My personal story of being drawn to geography because of the insight it gave me on the places I traveled to. Shownotes page: http://travelgeography.blogspot.com/2005/08/geography-and-tourism.html The Geography for Travelers Blog is at: http://TravelGeography.info This file was updated on 9/24/06. I have learned a lot about podcasting over the past year, and am starting to revisit, and edit, some of these early postings. Alan Comments[0] |
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