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

There 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 of Uluru. This is part of the podcast is only about a 22+ minute-long editing of the 1.5 hour long ranger-guided walk.

You can read more about my family's visit to Ayers Rock/Uluru National Park on either of these two travel blog sites:

MyLifeOfTravel

VCarious

Total Podcast Length: 33min 06sec