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Geography for Travelers|Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy Dornan Episode
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.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
[ Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:00 GMT ]
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