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Stories in Today's Podcast: - Global warming to alter when and where we travel. - Honolulu's Waikiki will be under water within 100 years. - UN and travel industry executives look for ways to reduce tourism's carbon footprint. - Environmentalists protest the enlargement of London's Heathrow Airport.
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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."
---- Note that this version of the Powerpoint presentation is slightly different from the audio file. There are a couple of slides at the start and at the end that were not in the presentation when the audio was recorded, and there is one slide at the end that I mention (very briefly) that is not in the slidecast. --- Long story....
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Lot of tourism news from China and Asia... - China, Hong Kong, Macau and Malaysia are leading Asia to a record tourism year in 2007 - Huge numbers of tourists during China's National Day holiday causes some to question the value of Golden Weeks - Over 1500 foreign tourists get lost in the mob of domestic tourists at China's Tiananmen Square - Hong Kong Disneyland is under-performing as visitors say it it too small and culturally insensitive
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- 30% of US Airline Departures were late this summer, up from 25% last year, and passenger complaints against airlines have nearly doubled. - AvoidDelays.com lists the airports, airlines and flights to avoid month by month - Delta's is offering business class seats and meals, in downtown Manhattan - Larry Craig's restroom at the Minneapolis airport has become the country's newest tourist attraction.
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