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Travel and tourism news, the geography of places and regions, and social sciences perspectives on the travel experience and tourism development.


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A Visit to The Tunis Medina
This 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....

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[ Tue, 30 Sep 2008 22:53:00 GMT ]


Diving at Lembeh Strait, Indonesia
This 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.infoabout...

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[ Sat, 9 Aug 2008 00:13:00 GMT ]


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 actual ...

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[ Fri, 23 May 2008 06:55:00 GMT ]


Defining Place Authencity
Defining 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/slideshows...

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[ Sun, 13 Apr 2008 13:27:00 GMT ]


Utterz from Northern Finland and Sweden
Travel 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 walk on ...

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[ Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:15:00 GMT ]


Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy Dornan
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 03secAbstract Title from the AAG.org website: Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Centurytrave Author: D'Arcy J. Dornan, Ph...

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[ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:00 GMT ]


Teaching Tourism with Social Software
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 48secHere are some links related to this presentation:- Course outline posted on Web20Teach blog- Elluminate.com- InnerToob.com- My Slideshare.net page - Powerpoint slides and f...

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[ Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:37:00 GMT ]


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/alew...

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[ Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:09:00 GMT ]


Ethics and Sustainable Tourism -- with David Fennell - part 1
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...

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[ Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:50:00 GMT ]


A Soundseeing Trip to China's Danxiashan
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 ...

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[ Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:19:00 GMT ]


Mike Pesses on Authentic Spaces of Bicycle Tourism
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, 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 bicycl...

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[ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:33:00 GMT ]


Student Podcasts: Maui, New York's Hudson Valley, Tourism News, and Yosemite NP
Three NAU students podcast on Maui, New York's Hudson Valley, Tourism News, and and Yosemite National Park.Show notes at http://TravelGeography.infoLength: 25min 57sec...

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[ Fri, 1 Jun 2007 06:54:00 GMT ]


Ecotourism Concerns in Russia's Altay - with Kathleen Braden
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 Russ...

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[ Thu, 17 May 2007 17:06:00 GMT ]


Geography and Tourism Road Trip, with Victor Teye & Dallen Timothy
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 rem...

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[ Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:33:00 GMT ]


Tourism at the Geographers Big Meeting in San Francisco
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.com25min, 27 secCreative Commons Copyright: non-commercial, attribution, share-alikePAPER TITL...

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[ Fri, 30 Mar 2007 00:40:00 GMT ]


Ben Ayers - Insights on Social Change in Nepal's Khumbu
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 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 Foundation...

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[ Wed, 28 Feb 2007 02:40:00 GMT ]


Doing Tourism Research in Nepal
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 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 KathmanduFull...

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[ Sun, 14 Jan 2007 06:33:00 GMT ]


Environmental&Social Change in Nepal - Part 2
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 methodolo...

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[ Thu, 28 Dec 2006 06:11:00 GMT ]


Environmental & Social Change in Nepal - Part 1
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 o...

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[ Sat, 9 Dec 2006 06:15:00 GMT ]


Jewel Cave Undergound Soundseeing Tour
Jewel 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 wet ...

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[ Wed, 8 Nov 2006 05:01:00 GMT ]


Ecotourism and the Grand Canyon, with Prof. Claudia Jurowski
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...

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[ Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:36:00 GMT ]


I Climbed Ayers Rock - I Did Not Climb Uluru
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 Ul...

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[ Mon, 9 Oct 2006 06:43:00 GMT ]


Power, Politics and Tourism - Prof. C. Michael Hall
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 PracticalitiesHere is the original abstract from the workshop:Issues of politics...

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[ Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:31:00 GMT ]


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.  The...

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[ Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:38:00 GMT ]


Melbourne's Pengiuns -- and a whole lot more
In 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. -- mo...

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[ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 04:45:00 GMT ]


Tourism Tech Talk: Teaching Tourism
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 podcasti...

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[ Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:03:00 GMT ]


The Web 2.0 Travelscape
Something 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 regularly...

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[ Tue, 4 Jul 2006 21:47:00 GMT ]


Planning Theory and Tourism Planners: A Disconnect
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...

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[ Wed, 14 Jun 2006 16:33:00 GMT ]


Tourism&Geography News: Travel Literacy&Physical Geography
This 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 geography ...

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[ Mon, 29 May 2006 03:45:00 GMT ]


Geography Travel News - Moms, Warnings, US Arrivals. Tea & Dubai
Today 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 the ...

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[ Sun, 14 May 2006 17:44:00 GMT ]

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