This is a Geography for Travelers Podcast related post (click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)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
- Regional Development Through Tourism in the Republic of Georgia
- Viewing Historical Sites through the Gaze of the "Other"
- Locating Queer Key West: Between the Closet, the Resort, and the Bridge
- Moose head guaranteed: 'Indian' guides, white tourists, and the politics of race and nature in Temagami, Ontario
- The Impact of Nature Tourism on Biodiversity Change in the Russian Federation
- An Economic Analysis of Florida Beach Tourism
- Commerce and Cruises: a comparative study of Caribbean waterfront transformations
- Out of Globalizing Taipei: Cultural Imagination, Local Identity, and the Case of The Festival of Austronesian Cultures in Taitung
- Just wasting away on vacation: using environmental justice theory to frame ecotourism-related waste management crises
- 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."
- The Visual Landscape in British West Indies Travel Narratives, 1815-1914
- Local effects of ecotourism: a case study of the Nono-Mindo Road in Ecuador
- Spillover Effects of Recreation-Led Growth in Rural America
- Are We "Natural" Enough? The Ecological Tourism and Social Development in Taroko National Park Area and San-Chan Tribe, Taiwan
- Au Bon Endroit: surrealism, creative play and passion
- Accommodating Green?: Overcoming Barriers to Sustainability in China's Tourism Industry.
- 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
- Management of Protected Areas in Mexico
- Seeking Shangri-La: Domestic Tourism in Yunnan, China
- Weaving stories in Taiwan: Japanese colonialism and Atayal culture
- Spacial Patterns of Touring Circuses Within Europe
- Spring Mill Pioneer Village as Symbolic Landscape
- Developing a fall foliage observation route through New England during peak season
- The Battle of Richmond Re-enactment: An Examination of an Emerging Living History tourist destination in Madison Co., Kentucky
- Environmentalism in Jiangxi's Tourism Development
- Do we need them Clustered? Competition, Cooperation and Innovation between Tourist attractions
- Landscapes of Silk Road Tourism: on the Road to Samarkand
- Delivering urban renaissance through the revitalization of ethnic neighborhoods as places of leisure and consumption
- The Largest Industry! Myths and Realities about the Tourist Industry
- Tracing Irish Ancestors within Diverse Tourism Spaces: A Proactive Approach to Developing New Models of Genealogical Tourism Promotion and Management
- Gender of Work: A regional study of employees' perceptions of ecotourism jobs
- Developing America's Playgrounds: National Parks and the Evolving Vision of Outdoor Recreation 1916-1939
- Many homes for tourism: engaging with embodied spaces and virtual places within second home mobilities
- On Surfari: Surf Tourism Flows from California
- Competing carrying capacities and sustainabilities: Setting the limits of growth in tourism
- Spatial Analysis of Tourism versus Mining in Yunnan, China: Comparing economic and environmental impacts
- The Shophouse Hotel: Vernacular Heritage in Creative Singapore
- 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
- Forging New Linkages in a Changing Global Economy? The Case of Cooperatives and their Link with the Negril Tourism Industry, Jamaica.
- Displacing Destinations, Becoming Tourists
- An Evaluation of the Potential and Limitations of Ecotourism as a Vehicle for Conservation and Sustainable Development in India
- A Defense Against Tourism: The formation of a cooperative system in Smangus, Taiwan
- Authentic Spaces of Bicycle Tourism
- Setting the Stage: Guanajuato's Historic Center
- Ecotourism in Protected Areas: The Case of Kakum National Park in Ghana
- Canada's emerging wine culture and conflicts in the new countryside
- Is domestic tourism a domestic phenomenon? Development, the state, and global connections in the mountains of Western Sichuan, China.
- "Going Global: Ecotourism and globalization in the Niti Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, India"
- Actor-Oriented Management of Protected Areas and Tourism in Mexico
- Tourism in Austria - Growing Tourism Centers and Suffering Peripheries
- Welcome to Paradise! Domestic Tourism and the Myth of the Frontier in China
- Returning the Gaze: Exploring the Possibility for a Dialogical Tourism
- Myths of Beirut: The Politics of History and the Seeds of Memory
- Organics-Aesthetics: Authenticity as a Regional Development Instrument
- Image, Advertising and Medical Tourism in India
- Boating on the Sea of Grass: Western Development, Tourism, Resistance, and Local Empowerment
- Eyes Wide Open: Post-Jacobean Infrastructure Projects
- Constructing Alterity? The Walt Disney Company and urban landscapes in the Paris Basin
- The Geography of Medical Tourism
- Tourism in China—an industry undertaking capitalism and individualism
- Baltoro glacier - a victim of high mountain mass-tourism?
- Black Rocks and the Big Bend - Energy Production, Wilderness, and Development on the U.S.-Mexican Border
- Sustainable tourism on commonages as an alternative to traditional agricultural-based land reform in Namaqualand, South Africa
- Mountain Shepherds Inaugural Women's Trek: Evaluation of a community initiated and operated tourism project in the Uttarakhand Himalayas
- Conserving tropical rainforest: a role for ecological education?
- Driven to the margins: neoliberalism, taxi drivers, and tourism in the Caribbean
- An Interactive Information System as a Tourism Marketing Tool - The Example of Two Austrian Communities
- Cruise Ships and Regional Development in Coastal Alaska: A Political Ecology Approach
- D-Day Tourism: Sites and Paths of Memory
- "Gay Camp": Analysis of Outdoor Recreation in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Culture and the Economic Impacts in the Ozarks.
- Journey to the west: tourist traps, Tibet and the independent tourist in contemporary China
- Neighborhood Revitalization in the Historic District of San Felipe de Neri, Panama
- Safari Tourism, Technology, and Local Resistance: The Socio-ecological Significance of CB Radios and Mini-vans in an East African Park
- Reconstructing Disaster Areas through Development Aid: The case of Phang Nga, Thailand
- Community-based ecotourism in Ghana
- "Get Back to Where You Once Belonged": Okinawa's Pursuit of Increased Substate Autonomy through Return-Visit Tourism
- Commodity Chains and the Mobility Turn in Tourism
- Tourism and the Mormon Culture Region Periphery: Heritage Tourism and the LDS Colonies of Mexico
- Nature based tourism - some economic linkages revisited
- Destinations and places seen as part of an innovation system
- The relevance or irrelevance of environmental ethics? Do they matter in tourism
- Reviving Tourism in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India: a Challenge for the Crisis and Disaster Management Planners
- Tourism development in the national periphery: Discourses of the Finnish-Russian border in the process of region-building
- Isoepa: Polynesian Heritage Site in the Utah Desert
- Integrating GIS with Database Systems to Identify and Analyze Feeder Market Places of Second-Home Based Tourism
- The Early Development of Cover Design of Foldout-Maps
- Consumption of Place: Exploring the Sociospatial Implications of the Coffee Trail and Agrotourism in North Central Nicaragua
- The New Space Tourism: The Privatization of Space Travel
- Environmental Regionalism as Discipline: The Northern Forest of New England and New York
- Processes and tendencies of the residential tourism in the Balearic Islands (Spain): ¿ Immigrants of luxury or tourists of long stay?
- Medical tourism in India; who benefits and who pays
- Tourism and Recreation in the Emirate of Dubai
- Gendered Aspects of Ecotourism
- Representations of Waikiki: An analysis of tourism through hotel brochures
- The Marketable Identities of Major American Cities
- Tourism and Portering Labour in Shimshal, Northern Areas, Pakistan
- 'Workers' paradise' or entrepreneur's dream? Communist heritage tourism in Nowa Huta, Poland
- Where you want to go to get away from it all: Theoretical Models of Cruise Tourist Behavior
- Economic and Ecological Factors Influencing Tourism Operations in Southern Africa's KAZA Region
- 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.
- A New Map to Promote Tourism in Virginia's Wine Region
- Island Ecotourism - Iriomote Island Case Studies
- WE Riders of Oakland: Urban Geography as Performance Art
- Staying Afloat: State agencies, local communities, and international involvement in marine protected area management in Zanzibar, Tanzania
- "Tubin and Groovin along a Texas River: Contested Spaces and Conflict over the Comal River in New Braunfels, Texas"
- International Involvement in Tourism Development in a Peripheral Region: Lessons from Ghana
- Web 2.0 Virtual Travel-escapes
- Evaluating tourism geographies in the United Kingdom: will moving the goal posts make any difference?
- Cartography, GIS, and Teaching the Geography of Wine
- Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Century
- Identity Shift in a Post-Military Society: A Case Study of Quemoy
- Much Ado About Nothing: A Geographical Analysis of Industrial Clusters
- Tourism, power, culture and the creative industries in the core's periphery
- Tourism User Fees: A Tool for Protected Area Management
- Development of Tourist Information System Based on 3-D Satellite Image Maps
