G4T #12: Sub-Saharan Africa Geography, Travel and Tourism

This week's podcast discusses several news items and then focuses on the geography of sub-Saharan Africa. I have switched from trying to get my podcast up by Sunday night to doing it on Monday morning. The last two weeks I was up until 2:30 in the morning (which really was Monday morning!) getting the podcast in order. This time, I got the material together on Sunday and then did the podcast on Monday.

You can download the MP3 file directly here:
http://libsyn.com/media/travelgeography/GT12_17Oct05_SubSaharanAfrica.mp3

And here are the links to items mentioned on today's podcast:

* After Katrina and Rita: How to rebuild the South's essential tourism business with free new publishing and Internet tools
http://www.after-katrina.org/
* Tourists warned not to "argue" with Floridians (Travel Wire News)
http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000061/006111.htm
* Book Review: The Lonely Planet Guide to Experimental Travel (San Francisco Bay Guardian)
http://www.sfbg.com/39/52/lit_loney_planet.html
* World leaders: Use tourism in war on poverty; WTO praised (Travel Wire News)
http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000057/005747.htm
* Protest over Serengeti National Park hotel project (E-Gnu)
http://www.e-gnu.com/frameset.asp?pagename=African-safari-news-events.html
* The Ten Important World Tourism Issues for 2006 (Trinet-l)
http://www.geog.nau.edu/courses/alew/ggr376/top10.html
* Most Americans are clueless about Africa (Travel Wire News)
http://www.travelwirenews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000037/003726.htm

G4T #11: Middle East Geography and Tourism

This week's podcast looks at a recent report from the Economist on tourism and terrorism in Bali. I then discuss a few other travel and tourism news items and transition into a discussion of the Middle East, which I extend to include the geographic regions of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and even Central Asia. Note that the inclusion of Central Asia as part of the broader Middle East is not widely accepted -- yet. But there are some good reasons, which I outline in the pocast.

I want to mention that countries the Middle East (Southwest Asia and the eastern part of North Africa) receives about 3% of all international tourist arrivals in the world, with Egypt reciving a quarter of those. see: InfoPlease - World Tourist Arrivals by Region and Country.

Here are links to websites mentioned in the podcast:

Indonesia industry: Tourism takes another hit -- EIU (Economist Intellgence Unit) ViewsWire

Travel News Wire

• Earthquake devastates portions of Pakistan, India and Afghanistan Quake toll at 18,000+ -- Police said "hundreds" of people were trapped after a landslide in the northern Kaghan Valley area, a popular tourist haunt
• Guatemala slide toll may hit 1,400 - Landslide buried several communities near the popular tourist destination of Lake Atitlan
• Mexico set to break tourism records again this year

BBC

• Quake's terrible toll is revealed (Pakisatn & India)
• Guatemala villages 'mass graves' (Guatemala)
• India readies for shopping mall boom
  World's Largest Malls Compared

Dubai - The Palm Islands

Wiki Travel

• WikiTravel (English version)
  
• My entry for the Shan State of Myanmar
• Golden Triangle blog -- my summer 2005 conference and trip to China, Myanmar, Thailand, and Laos (for an hour or so)

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G4T #5: Geography and Tourism

My podcast for August 29 (click on title above) is on the relationship between geography and tourism, and how I came to make the connection as a college student and made it the focus of my life's work. I thought I might add here in the blog that you can access the syllabus for the class I'm teaching this semester at:

http://www.geog.nau.edu/courses/alew/ggr376/

The class itself is taught in Blackboard-Vista, and is not available for anyone who is not fully registered as a student.

NEW: I have made a major edit of the original MP3 file, which was posted on 24 Sept 2006 and replaced the old file.