(this is a blog, not a podcast)National Geographic Magazine - Discover Antarctica
Cool interactive website of maps and articles on Antarctica. This is the geography, and more, that will truely enhance any trip to the Antarctic.
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Friday, April 07, 2006
DISCOVER ANTARCTICA - National Geographic
(this is a blog, not a podcast)National Geographic Magazine - Discover Antarctica
Cool interactive website of maps and articles on Antarctica. This is the geography, and more, that will truely enhance any trip to the Antarctic.
Monday, April 03, 2006
G4T #30: Managing Tourism Development & Impacts with GIS
(click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)Today's podcast discusses traditional resource management approaches that are used the monitor and manage tourism and travel development and impacts. I then discuss the different ways that Geographic Information Systems can be used to plan and manage tourism. [Total length: 30min 22sec.]
Related Links:
- GREEN GLOBE 21 is the worldwide benchmarking and certification program which facilitates sustainable travel and tourism for consumers, companies and communities
- A Strategic Overview of Ecotourism Accreditation and Certification:The Road Forward
- The State of Tourism/GIS Education and a Solution (pdf)
- GIS for Tourism Management (website)
- Hasse, Julia C. and Milne, Simon (2005) Participatory Approaches and Geographical Information Systems (PAGIS) in Tourism Planning. Tourism Geographies vol. 7 (No. 3, August): pp. 272-289.
Friday, March 31, 2006
ReVista -- Tourism in the Americas
(this is a blog, not a podcast)David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (Harvard University)
I'm not sure what or why this is, but it is a potentially useful compilation of some 30 very short articles written by some known names among tourism academics. It is sort of a mini-online-edited book. Worth checking out, especially if you are interested in Latin America.
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Monday, March 27, 2006
G4T #29: Telluride, Colorado Winter Sound Tour
(click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)Spring Break brought me to the old mining town, and now upscale tourist and ski resort of Telluride, Colorado. With my less than trusty recorder in hand, I take you on an early morning walk through downtown Telluride, then up a chair lift to the Mountain Village resort area. I recorded some obervations while skiing down the 4.6 mile Galloping Goose run, and then some observations from my hotel room. Next week I will be back to my "normal" podcasts.
(Length: 35min, 58sec)
Link: Teluride Ski Resort, Colorado
Downtown Telluride
Telluride from the top of Lift #7
The $12,995,000 home for sale that is mentioned in the podcast
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Sunday, March 26, 2006
Travelography #19: How to Have a Safe Cruise Excursion
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)A fire breaks our on a Princess Cruise ship and 12 people die on a cruise excusion in Chile. Find out how you can protect yourself from potentially dangerous tour excursions.
Links to stories in this week's Travelography podcast:
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Saturday, March 18, 2006
Travelography #18: Brits Ban Australia, Choice Seats , and Cruise Victim Rights
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)Australia's 'Bloody Hell" tourism campaign is banned from UK television; Asian tourism growth is export heaven for Australian beef industry; Northwest Airlines starts charging extra for prime isle and emergency exit row seats; US Airfares went up last week; and the US Congress holds hearings on cruise ship crime and safety issues.
Links to this week's Travelography stories:
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
G4T #28: Global Warming and Tourism, plus China's Great Walls
(click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)The news items in this podcast are all about China, including the Great Wall and the "Great Green Wall", which is designed to stem the rapidly expanding Gobi Desert. Historically, the invading nomadic tribes from Central Asia periodically brought havoc to the settled agricuturalists of China. In the long run, Chinese culture overcame these invations by acculturating the nomads and making them "Chinese." The advancing desertification from Central Asia today probably threatens the heart of Chinese civilation more than any invading group ever had. We will probably know sooner than later (like by the 2008 Beijing Olympics) whether or not the Great Green Wall will have any hope of stemming the advancing deserts.
This issue leads into the main topic of today's podcast -- the projected impacts of global warming on the major tourism regions of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a very upbeat topic. But it is one that needs to be discussed and addressed to prevent the environmental, social and economic chaos that could result from global climate change within our lifetimes.
Links to items discussed in today's podcast:
- China to Spend Staggering Amounts on Surveying the Great Wall
- Patrols to Protect China's Great Wall
- The Green Wall of China
- Climate Change and Tourism (Final Report UNWTO .pdf)
- Climate Change Poses Risk to Tourism WTO Warns (press release)
- Tourism and Global Environmental Change Ecological, Social, Economic and Political Interrelationships, by edited by Stefan Gossling and C. Michael Hall
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
Travelography #16: China Calling: Beijing to Tibet, plus the World Leisure Expo
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)This podcast is all about China, including the China Help Line translation service, Tiananmen Square "For Sale", the highest train in the world from Beijing to Tibet, and the First World Lesiure Expo in Hangzhou.
- China Help Line translation service
- Budget Travel Extra Mile Awards 2005 (about the China Help Line)
- Old pieces of Tiananmen paving stones sold as souvenirs
- China to Tibet Railway
- Tibet Railway Offers Lap of Luxury Travel to The "Roof of the World"
- Hangzhou Will Host 1st World Leisure Expo
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Dubai Architecture to Draw 15 million Tourists (not Terrorists?)
(this is a blog, not a podcast)Where will you find the world's largest:
- Indoor ski facility
- Shopping center
- Tallest building
- Underwater hotel
- Artificial islands
... and more ... ?
These architectural extremes have either been built, are under constructions, or are in the planning stages in the Dubai United Arab Emirate. (Dubai is the same place that is the current boogie-man in the US terrorist landscape due to their intent to purchase the British company that currently operates several large US east coast ports.) The goal of all these projects is to increase tourism to Dubai to 15 million by the year 2010. Hopefully they will not also be a draw for the region's terrorists ?!
Click on the title to this blog to go to the Business Week online article and slide show of Dubai's architectural plans. THIS IS A MUST SEE !!!
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Friday, March 03, 2006
Travelography #15: London is Down, Florida is Up, & Cuba Remains an Issue
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)This past year was a big for tourism in many parts of the world, including Florida, Cuba and Vietnam. However, tourists have been avoiding central London since last July's terrorist bombings, and a Sheraton Hotel in Mexico City is in hot water with both the US and Mexican governments for expelling a Cuban delegation there to meet US business leaders.
- Florida announces record tourism for 2005
- UK tourist spots see visitor numbers crash
- Ho Chi Minh City welcomes double-digit increase
- Cuba tourism boom
- Mexico City officials attempt to shut down U.S. hotel
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Sunday, February 26, 2006
G4T #27.5: Travel & Geographic Knowledge, and Why Plan?
(click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)No news items for this week. For weekly travel news, please visit my weekly Travelography podcast.
Rather than news, I discuss an article from my Tourism Geographies journal on the topic of travel and geographical (actually mapping) knowledge. The full reference for that article is:
- Poria, Yaniv; Atzaba-Poria, Naama; and Barrett, Martyn. 2005. Research Note: The Relationship Between Children's Geographical Knowledge and Travel Experience: An Exploratory Study. Tourism Geographies 7(4):389-397.
The main topic then switches to issues of private and public goods, and the justification for government planning and regulation. The goal in this discussion is to define the role of government in planning for tourism in a community -- and the responsibility of the private sector in its reliance on public resources for tourism development. A bit theoretical, but I hope you enjoy it.
Cheers - Alan
(Length: 27min 0min)
Saturday, February 25, 2006
Travelography #14: Where the Bloody Hell Are You?
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)Travel News for this week: The Aeroscape blimp, the EU call for reduced travel restrictions to the US, and Australia makes waves with its new marketing campaign: "Where the Bloody Hell Are You?"
Monday, February 20, 2006
Travelography #13: Mardi Gras & New Orleans Guidebooks
(click on the title above to go to the PCN TRAVELOGRAPHY web page)This week's travel news: Mardi Gras celebrations have started in New Orleans, and many other places around the US and World. Meanwhile, guidebook publishers are going online to update their guides for the US Gulf Coast. Unrelated is a story on US Air Marshals who have been charged with drug dealing.
Sunday, February 19, 2006
G4T #27: Sustainable Development & the Travel Industry
(click the title above to download the podcast .mp3 file)Today's podcast focuses on the concept of Sustainable Development as it applies to the Travel and Tourism Industry. The News portion covers some Travel Quotes, Space Travel News and the Mekong River Tourism Project.
Here are links to items discussed on today's podcast:
Wednesday, February 15, 2006
Travelography #12: Giant Cruise Ship, Shanghai Disney, Geo-caching & Sharks
(click the title above to go to the PCN website for this podcast)Royal Caribbean orders a $1 billion cruise ship - the biggest and most expensive ever. Shanghai is likely to get the next Disneyland. Resorts are starting to offer geo-caching activities for guests. And a shark feeding frenzy keeps Autsralians out of the water in Queensland. Links to these stories are on the PCN website.
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