G4T #51: Tourism at the Geographers Big Meeting in San Francisco

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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.

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PAPER TITLES WITH THE KEYWORDS TOUR, TOURIST & TOURISM
- from the preliminary program of the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, 17-21 April 2007

1. Regional Development Through Tourism in the Republic of Georgia
2. Viewing Historical Sites through the Gaze of the "Other"
3. Locating Queer Key West: Between the Closet, the Resort, and the Bridge
4. Moose head guaranteed: 'Indian' guides, white tourists, and the politics of race and nature in Temagami, Ontario
5. The Impact of Nature Tourism on Biodiversity Change in the Russian Federation
6. An Economic Analysis of Florida Beach Tourism
7. Commerce and Cruises: a comparative study of Caribbean waterfront transformations
8. Out of Globalizing Taipei: Cultural Imagination, Local Identity, and the Case of The Festival of Austronesian Cultures in Taitung
9. Just wasting away on vacation: using environmental justice theory to frame ecotourism-related waste management crises
10. Fish, Floatboats and Feds: "Directions and disparities in policy surrounding the Endangered Species Act and listed Snake River Chinook salmon on the Sawtooth National Recreation Area."
11. The Visual Landscape in British West Indies Travel Narratives, 1815-1914
12. Local effects of ecotourism: a case study of the Nono-Mindo Road in Ecuador
13. Spillover Effects of Recreation-Led Growth in Rural America
14. Are We "Natural" Enough? The Ecological Tourism and Social Development in Taroko National Park Area and San-Chan Tribe, Taiwan
15. Au Bon Endroit: surrealism, creative play and passion
16. Accommodating Green?: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability in China's Tourism Industry.
17. Do we really need more tourism in Jamaica? Exploring the highs and lows of merging tourism with agriculture in the bid to create alternative livelihoods
18. Management of Protected Areas in Mexico
19. Seeking Shangri-La: Domestic Tourism in Yunnan, China
20. Weaving stories in Taiwan: Japanese colonialism and Atayal culture
21. Spacial Patterns of Touring Circuses Within Europe
22. Spring Mill Pioneer Village as Symbolic Landscape
23. Developing a fall foliage observation route through New England during peak season
24. The Battle of Richmond Re-enactment: An Examination of an Emerging Living History tourist destination in Madison Co., Kentucky
25. Environmentalism in Jiangxi's Tourism Development
26. Do we need them Clustered? Competition, Cooperation and Innovation between Tourist attractions
27. Landscapes of Silk Road Tourism: on the Road to Samarkand
28. Delivering urban renaissance through the revitalization of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption
29. The Largest Industry! Myths and Realities about the Tourist Industry
30. Tracing Irish Ancestors within Diverse Tourism Spaces: A Proactive Approach to Developing New Models of Genealogical Tourism Promotion and Management
31. Gender of Work: A regional study of employees' perceptions of ecotourism jobs
32. Developing America's Playgrounds: National Parks and the Evolving Vision of Outdoor Recreation 1916-1939
33. Many homes for tourism: engaging with embodied spaces and virtual places within second home mobilities
34. On Surfari: Surf Tourism Flows from California
35. Competing carrying capacities and sustainabilities: Setting the limits of growth in tourism
36. Spatial Analysis of Tourism versus Mining in Yunnan, China: Comparing economic and environmental impacts
37. The Shophouse Hotel: Vernacular Heritage in Creative Singapore
38. Good-bye Humboldt, welcome McKinsey - Tourism and Leisure Geography in Germany in the context of current educational policy changes and the complex challenge of globalised educational structures
39. Forging New Linkages in a Changing Global Economy? The Case of Cooperatives and their Link with the Negril Tourism Industry, Jamaica.
40. Displacing Destinations, Becoming Tourists
41. An Evaluation of the Potential and Limitations of Ecotourism as a Vehicle for Conservation and Sustainable Development in India
42. A Defense Against Tourism: The formation of a cooperative system in Smangus, Taiwan
43. Authentic Spaces of Bicycle Tourism
44. Setting the Stage: Guanajuato's Historic Center
45. Ecotourism in Protected Areas: The Case of Kakum National Park in Ghana
46. Canada's emerging wine culture and conflicts in the new countryside
47. Is domestic tourism a domestic phenomenon? Development, the state, and global connections in the mountains of Western Sichuan, China.
48. "Going Global: Ecotourism and globalization in the Niti Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India"
49. Actor-Oriented Management of Protected Areas and Tourism in Mexico
50. Tourism in Austria - Growing Tourism Centers and Suffering Peripheries
51. Welcome to Paradise! Domestic Tourism and the Myth of the Frontier in China
52. Returning the Gaze: Exploring the Possibility for a Dialogical Tourism
53. Myths of Beirut: The Politics of History and the Seeds of Memory
54. Organics-Aesthetics: Authenticity as a Regional Development Instrument
55. Image, Advertising and Medical Tourism in India
56. Boating on the Sea of Grass: Western Development, Tourism, Resistance, and Local Empowerment
57. Eyes Wide Open: Post-Jacobean Infrastructure Projects
58. Constructing Alterity? The Walt Disney Company and urban landscapes in the Paris Basin
59. The Geography of Medical Tourism
60. Tourism in China—an industry undertaking capitalism and individualism
61. Baltoro glacier - a victim of high mountain mass-tourism?
62. Black Rocks and the Big Bend - Energy Production, Wilderness, and Development on the U.S.-Mexican Border
63. Sustainable tourism on commonages as an alternative to traditional agricultural-based land reform in Namaqualand, South Africa
64. Mountain Shepherds Inaugural Women's Trek: Evaluation of a community initiated and operated tourism project in the Uttarakhand Himalayas
65. Conserving tropical rainforest: a role for ecological education?
66. Driven to the margins: neoliberalism, taxi drivers, and tourism in the Caribbean
67. An Interactive Information System as a Tourism Marketing Tool - The Example of Two Austrian Communities
68. Cruise Ships and Regional Development in Coastal Alaska: A Political Ecology Approach
69. D-Day Tourism: Sites and Paths of Memory
70. "Gay Camp": Analysis of Outdoor Recreation in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Culture and the Economic Impacts in the Ozarks.
71. Journey to the west: tourist traps, Tibet and the independent tourist in contemporary China
72. Neighborhood Revitalization in the Historic District of San Felipe de Neri, Panama
73. Safari Tourism, Technology, and Local Resistance: The Socio-ecological Significance of CB Radios and Mini-vans in an East African Park
74. Reconstructing Disaster Areas through Development Aid: The case of Phang Nga, Thailand
75. Community-based ecotourism in Ghana
76. "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged": Okinawa's Pursuit of Increased Substate Autonomy through Return-Visit Tourism
77. Commodity Chains and the Mobility Turn in Tourism
78. Tourism and the Mormon Culture Region Periphery: Heritage Tourism and the LDS Colonies of Mexico
79. Nature based tourism - some economic linkages revisited
80. Destinations and places seen as part of an innovation system
81. The relevance or irrelevance of environmental ethics? Do they matter in tourism
82. Reviving Tourism in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India: a Challenge for the Crisis and Disaster Management Planners
83. Tourism development in the national periphery: Discourses of the Finnish-Russian border in the process of region-building
84. Isoepa: Polynesian Heritage Site in the Utah Desert
85. Integrating GIS with Database Systems to Identify and Analyze Feeder Market Places of Second-Home Based Tourism
86. The Early Development of Cover Design of Foldout-Maps
87. Consumption of Place: Exploring the Sociospatial Implications of the Coffee Trail and Agrotourism in North Central Nicaragua
88. The New Space Tourism: The Privatization of Space Travel
89. Environmental Regionalism as Discipline: The Northern Forest of New England and New York
90. Processes and tendencies of the residential tourism in the Balearic Islands (Spain): ¿ Immigrants of luxury or tourists of long stay?
91. Medical tourism in India; who benefits and who pays
92. Tourism and Recreation in the Emirate of Dubai
93. Gendered Aspects of Ecotourism
94. Representations of Waikiki: An analysis of tourism through hotel brochures
95. The Marketable Identities of Major American Cities
96. Tourism and Portering Labour in Shimshal, Northern Areas, Pakistan
97. 'Workers' paradise' or entrepreneur's dream? Communist heritage tourism in Nowa Huta, Poland
98. Where you want to go to get away from it all: Theoretical Models of Cruise Tourist Behavior
99. Economic and Ecological Factors Influencing Tourism Operations in Southern Africa's KAZA Region
100. Introducing National Park Reserves into Rural Tourism Industries: Assessing the potentials for integrated, sustainable tourism in the South Okanagan and Lower Similkameen areas, British Columbia, Canada.
101. A New Map to Promote Tourism in Virginia's Wine Region
102. Island Ecotourism - Iriomote Island Case Studies
103. WE Riders of Oakland: Urban Geography as Performance Art
104. Staying Afloat: State agencies, local communities, and international involvement in marine protected area management in Zanzibar, Tanzania
105. "Tubin and Groovin along a Texas River: Contested Spaces and Conflict over the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas"
106. International Involvement in Tourism Development in a Peripheral Region: Lessons from Ghana
107. Web 2.0 Virtual Travel-escapes
108. Evaluating tourism geographies in the United Kingdom: will moving the goal posts make any difference?
109. Cartography, GIS, and Teaching the Geography of Wine
110. Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Century
111. Identity Shift in a Post-Military Society: A Case Study of Quemoy
112. Much Ado About Nothing: A Geographical Analysis of Industrial Clusters
113. Tourism, power, culture and the creative industries in the core's periphery
114. Tourism User Fees: A Tool for Protected Area Management
115. Development of Tourist Information System Based on 3-D Satellite Image Maps