#664

From: "Jarkko Saarinen" <jarkko.saarinen@...>
Date: Tue Apr 3, 2007 10:49 am
Subject: IGU Tunis pre-info on Climate change sessions - apologies for cross-posting

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Apologies for cross-posting,  Yours, Jarkko Saarinen

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Dear colleagues,
Tunisian organizers and our deceased president Adalberto Vallega have
accepted that special sessions will be held during the IGU 2008
International congress in Tunis on "Climate change from the geological eras
to the 21rst century: characteristics, impacts and governance". This
session focuses on all the features of climate changes in the geological
and historical periods and nowadays, not only on their physical but also on
their human and societal impacts. Many geographers of different
subdisciplines linked with your commission are concerned with research on
Climate Change. And Climate Change, the "Stone tape" is one of the eight
key questions outlined in the IYPE (International Year of Planet Earth:
www.esqfs.org).
I would like to ask you to alert the full members, the corresponding
members of your commission and all the geographers you get in touch with to
participate to the session for providing information on ongoing
geographical activities and presenting results.
   I think also that the session should be co-sponsored by all the
commissions the most involved in the topic and ask the chairs who fill
concern to get in touch with me.

Looking forward to hearing from you soon,
With my best wishes

Annick Dougu�droit
Annick  DOUGUEDROIT ( Prof.)

Chairperson of the IGU Commission on Climatology
Pr�sidente de la Commission de Climatologie de l'UGI
(International Geographical Union,Union G�ographique Internationale)
Institut de G�ographie, UMR 6012 ESPACE
Universit� de Provence (Aix-Marseille1)
29 Av. R. Schuman
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#665

From: Malika Koyanbayeva <malikasha@...>
Date: Wed Apr 4, 2007 5:57 am
Subject: Avalon Kazakhstan E-book - apologies for cross-posting

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Apologies for cross-posting, Malika Koyanbayeva

Dear Colleagues!

For those of you who were thinking of going to Kazakhstan (or simply needs
information). Here is the letter with the info on the Kazakhstan eBook. They
also have maps of the country.

  Dear Sirs,

Avalon Historico-Geographical Society ( Karaganda , Kazakhstan , www.guide.kz)
presents Avalon Kazakhstan eBook - the first electronic edition about Kazakhstan
in English aimed at describing the country on behalf of an ordinary tourist and
based only upon exclusive information we got at first hand and saw by our own
eyes.
Ø       the inheritance of ancient nomads (Saks and Turks) represented by
the barrows, mausoleums, petroglyphs and archaeological finds;
Ø       the patrimony of Genghis-Khan's eldest son Juchi who was an
ancestor to most Kazakh rulers;
Ø       the second Islamic Mecca - the town of Turkestan and Khodja Akhmed
Yasavi khanaka, the remarkable architectural masterpiece;
Ø       the outstanding thinker and philosopher Al-Farabi who was
considered 'the second Aristotel';
Ø       sparkling tops of the Tien Shan with the highest Kazakhstani peak
Khan-Tengri (6995 meters);
Ø       depressing by their monotony lowlands of Mangyshlak and the
Caragiye Cavity (132 meters below sea level);
Ø       the mystic Altai Mountains and the enigmatic Mountain Belukha;
Ø       sadly known Stalin's forced prison camps Karlag and ALZHIR;
Ø       the Semipalatinsk Test Site inherited from the Soviet regime;
Ø       the Medeu highest mountain skating-rink;
Ø       the unique and having no analogues Baikonur Cosmodrome;
Ø       finally, the rapidly developing state capital Astana, the city of
the 3rd millennium.
This is all Kazakhstan , so different and immense. And all of these and many
other things are described in Avalon Kazakhstan eBook. This electronic book
written in English is mainly meant for foreigners who are going to visit
Kazakhstan . It will also be useful to any person interested in history, culture
and sights of our country. In its 9 chapters and 275 articles Avalon Kazakhstan
eBook contains a big deal of interesting information and over 150 pictures
illustrating present-day life in Kazakhstan .

Avalon Kazakhstan eBook is now sold at www.kazakhstan-online.net/ebook.htm

Sincerely yours,

Vitaliy Shuptar,
Avalon HGS PA president



Sincerely yours,

Malika Koyanbayeva

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#666

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Mon Apr 9, 2007 4:32 am
Subject: Fwd: Heritage & Tourism Conference announcement

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Apologies for cross-postings.

The Deadline for Abstracts for this Conference is a week away -- April 15th. Don't miss one of the most stimulating tourism conference in China (this is our 5th biennial meeting), and one of the best conference deals on the planet!

Cheers, Alan

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Heritage and Tourism:
Community, Enterprise, Government & Tourists
An International Conference
Sun Yat-Sen (Zhongshan) University
Guangzhou, China
8 to 10 July 2007

http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/China2007/

Major Conference Themes:

Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management:

Hosts and Guests: Whose Heritage and Nostalgia?
Sustainable Community-based Heritage Tourism
Living Heritage: Tourism in Minority Ethnic Communities
Conservation or Development: Case Studies in Community Heritage through Tourism

Tourism and Natural Heritage Management:

Ecotourism, Nature Tourism, and Environmental Tourism
People and/or the Environment: Managing Environmental Destination
Environmental Heritage and Climate Change Issues
Conservation or Development: Case Studies in Environmental Heritage through Tourism

The Heritage Tourist:

Tourist Experience and Motivations for Heritage
Measuring and Managing the Heritage Tourism Segments

Heritage Tourism Theory:

Defining the Heritage and Tourism Relationship
Image, Themes and Forms of Nostalgia and Heritage Tourism

http://www.geog.nau.edu/igust/China2007/

Alan A. Lew, Ph.D., AICP

Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University , Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA
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#667

From: "Carl, Daniela" <d.carl@...>
Date: Fri Apr 20, 2007 4:06 pm
Subject: Second CFP: Exploring Tourism Issues in PhD Research, June 2007 Leeds

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Second Call for Papers/Invitation

Exploring Tourism: Issues in PhD Research

Leeds Metropolitan University, 28-30 June 2007

Are you a current tourism PhD student?

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Would you like to meet other PhD researchers and improve your networks?

Do you want advice for a certain stage of your PhD career – from starting out to finishing, and what to do next?

The International Centre for Responsible Tourism and the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change at Leeds Metropolitan University are hosting a PhD student conference specifically for tourism researchers. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform for networking opportunities and peer review and support.

All PhD students are invited to participate and second and final year students to present (30 min slots). The presentations can either be an overview of your PhD or specifically focus on methodological issues. Seminal keynote speakers will address current issues such as being a researcher during and post PhD.

Cost: � 35, plus accommodation (discounted rates available)

Please register your interest and send an abstract if you wish to present by 30^th April 2007 the very lastet. Please note that the date for submission of the full papers is 1^st June 2007.

E-Mail Birgit Braasch: b.braasch@...

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#668

From: "Elinor Robertson" <Elinor@...>
Date: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:23 am
Subject: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 15:4 - Table of Contents

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International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education

Volume 15, Number 4

Recent Research from the University of London Institute of Education – Special Issue

Guest edited by Ashley Kent

Guest Editorial

Ashley Kent

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150305.htm

Histories of Geographical Education

Ashley Kent

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150307.htm

Contested Cultural Spaces: Exploring Illicit Drug-using Through Trainspotting

Judy Hemingway

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150324.htm

Developing Geographical Wisdom: Postformal Thinking About, and Relating To, the World

Alun Morgan

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150336.htm

Geographical Knowledge and Teaching Geography

Clare Brooks

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150353.htm

Promoting Paired Placements in Initial Teacher Education

Sheila King

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/irgee/015/irgee0150370.htm

Individual articles can be downloaded with a credit card from www.channelviewpublications.net or visit www.channelviewpublications.com to enter a subscription to this journal. In case of difficulty, email info@... for help.

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#669

From: "Elinor Robertson" <Elinor@...>
Date: Thu Apr 26, 2007 11:15 am
Subject: Journal of Heritage Tourism 2:1 - Table of Contents

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Apologies for cross-posting

Journal of Heritage Tourism

Volume 2, Number 1, 2007

Framing Urban Heritage and the International Tourist

Martine C. Middleton

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/jht/002/jht0020001.htm

A Snapshot into the Past: The Utility of Volunteer-Employed Photography in Planning and Managing Heritage Tourism

Brian Garrod

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/jht/002/jht0020014.htm

Remembering the Second World War in Singapore: Wartime Heritage as a Visitor Attraction

Joan C. Henderson

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/jht/002/jht0020036.htm

RESEARCH NOTE

Balancing Values of Outstanding Universality with Conservation and Management at Three United Kingdom Cultural World Heritage Sites

Sarah Wynard Lyon

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/jht/002/jht0020053.htm

Elinor Robertson

Multilingual Matters Ltd/Channel View Publications

Frankfurt Lodge, Clevedon Hall, Victoria Road, Clevedon

BS21 7HH

Email: Elinor@...

Tel: +44 (0)1275 876519

Fax: +44 (0)1275 871673

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#670

From: David Timothy Duval <dduval@...>
Date: Thu Apr 26, 2007 5:58 pm
Subject: JTTM: Geography and Tourism Marketing 2nd CFP

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* Apologies for cross-posting *

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM MARKETING

SPECIAL ISSUE�OF THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM MARKETING

In 1997 the late Martin Oppermann edited a special issue of JTTM that
provided an initial exploration of geographic issues in tourism marketing.
That volume brought together several themes, including spatial behavior,
visitor market segmentation, the concept of place, and distribution and
promotion channels. Since then, however, new challenges and solutions have
emerged for travel and tourism marketing. Market segmentation, place
marketing, GIS and informatics, and distribution channels are all still very
important geographic concepts that significantly influence marketing
activities. However, the scope, scale and geography of tourism and mobility
have changed significantly since 1997. The interface of geography and
tourism marketing now includes new forms of distribution (internet-based),
transportation (low-cost, low-fare airlines), destinations (security
awareness), technology (social media), services (location-based mapping),
and motivations (hybrid and fusion cultures). While geographic place and
space still matter, it can matter in different ways and through different
opportunities than in the past.

The purpose of this special issue is to explore current and emerging
synergies between geography and geographical concepts and tourism marketing.
The editors welcome research papers on related topics, including but not
necessarily limited to:

- Marketing space and place
- The relationship between service and location/geography
- Managing destinations: distribution channels and geographic dispersal
- Destination Marketing Organizations: managing change in turbulent
geopolitical environments
- Applications of GIS and spatial/location information systems
- Shifting flows: origin/destination pairings and networks
- Identifying and securing target markets
- Globalization, migration and diaspora factors in tourism marketing
- Tourist spatial behavior and travel decision-making in place marketing
- Evolving operational structures and geographic competitive advantage
- Regulatory environments and strategic marketing of places
- Global mobility flows and consequences for targeted or direct marketing
- New forms of place marketing, such as podcasts/blogs, social software and
Web 2.0�websites

Submissions may be theoretically oriented or more applied in nature.

Submission�Guidelines

Abstracts of between 1000 and 1200 words should be submitted no later than
31 May 2007. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than 30 June.
Full papers to be submitted no later than 30 September 2007. Full papers
will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Depending on the response,
the articles may also be published in book format.

Submit abstracts (in English) via email to:

Professor Alan Lew
Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Email: alan.lew (at) nau.edu

and

Dr David Timothy Duval
Department of Tourism / International Business Programme
School of Business
University of Otago
Email: dduval (at) business.otago.ac.nz
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Dr David Timothy Duval, Senior Lecturer
Director, International Business Programme
School of Business, University of Otago
PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand

Tel +64 3 479 5398 | Mobile +64 210 423 700 | Fax +64 3 479 9034
www.davidtimothyduval.com | www.otago.ac.nz/tourism
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#671

From: "Douglas Pearce" <douglas.pearce@...>
Date: Fri Apr 27, 2007 3:16 am
Subject: Tourism Networks Scholarship

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I would like to draw your attention to this Strategic Research PhD Scholarship at Victoria University of Wellington. Further details may be obtained from the following website: www.vuw.ac.nz/home/studying/scholarships_srs.html

Douglas Pearce,
Professor of Tourism Management,

Victoria University of Wellington

Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Research PhD Scholarship

Tourism Networks: Participation and Performance

Victoria Management School

Inter-organizational interaction is a dominant characteristic of the tourism sector due to the multi-faceted nature of the tourism experience which requires a range of different services and products to be produced and distributed to multiple market segments. To foster better business practices, greater understanding is needed of this interaction and of the impact of varying levels of interdependence on business performance.

This project seeks to extend conventional research on the tourism firm and on dyadic business-to-business relationships by examining the ways in which and extent to which participation in various forms of networks -exchange, communication and social – influences the performance of tourism firms. The research will establish a typology of tourism networks in New Zealand; map selected networks in terms of such dimensions as their level of diversity and formality; and examine how network participation affects performance as measured by such factors as service quality, profitability and competitiveness.

The deadline for applications is 13 July 2007. Application forms are available from www.vuw.ac.nz/scholarships. Further information is available from the contacts below.

Research contact details:

Professor Douglas Pearce

Victoria Management School

Telephone +64-4-463 5715

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Application contact details:

Philippa Hay, Scholarships Manager

Victoria University of Wellington

PO Box 600 Wellington

New Zealand

Telephone +64-4-463 7493

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#672

From: "Jarkko Saarinen" <jarkko.saarinen@...>
Date: Fri Apr 27, 2007 1:11 pm
Subject: Fw: Call for paper

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Call for Papers

“Mapping Practices: Doing fieldwork in geography”

À travers l’espace de la méthode : les dimensions du terrain en géographie

University of Artois (France), 18-20 June 2008

Geographical fieldwork has recently become a topic studied in itself: a 1994 focus in The Professional Geographer has initiated this self-reflective movement within the discipline. Indeed, fieldwork has long remained a blind spot in the geographical undertaking, as it was either left ignored or self-evident. Critical examinations currently excavate its diverse meanings. Throughout the history of geography, fieldwork has acted as the main provider for the production of geographical knowledge: it has supplied data, scientific legitimacy and institutional authority. In consequence, fieldwork is a strong component of a geographer’s identity.

More information - see the attachements,

Dr Anne Volvey

University of Arras (France)

Department of Geography

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#673

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:45 pm
Subject: Fwd: Alexander von Humboldt lectures 2007-2008

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From: Huib Ernste <h.ernste@...>
Date: Apr 30, 2007 1:43 AM
Subject: Alexander von Humboldt lectures 2007-2008
To: URBGEOG@...

The Department of Human Human Geography at the Radboud University of Nijmegen

cordially invites you to:

The Alexander von Humboldt Lectures Series:

TRANS-WORLD
Debating the Openness of Borders in the Age of Transnational Migration

The following Alexander von Humboldt Guests take part in our programme: (clicking on a name will bring you to their personal homepage)
Prof. Alejandro Portes (Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA)
Prof. Thomas Faist (Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Prof. Joseph Carens (Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada)
Prof. Franck D�vell (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

This series will be completed by a small scientific workshop and a big public debate with politicians and scientists in 2008.

For a more extended description of the theme see at the bottom of this message or www.ru.nl/socgeo/description
For further information see: www.ru-nl/socgeo/humboldt

Programme:

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture:
"From Immigrants to Ethnics: The Politics of Immigration"

Prof. Alejandro Portes (Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA)

Abstract: This lecture will review the politics of immigrant communities with emphasis on the phenomenon of transnationalism and its implications for the social and political incorporation of foreigners in receiving societies. Other topics to be reviewed are determinants of citizenship acquisition ("changing flags"), the different nationalities to do so, and the transformation of immigrants into ethnic groups through interaction with the native population. The review closes with a typology of contemporary immigration and the political attitudes and activities expected from each type of immigrant. The second generation, its orientation toward transnational politics and the determinants of its assimilation to host societies will be briefly discussed.
Monday
May 14, 2007
17:30-19:30
Free entry
Thomas van Aquinostraat 1.0.02, Radboud University Nijmegen

Research Seminar with Prof. Alejandro Portes
Tuesday
May 14, 2007
14:00-17:00
Free entry
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3.0.27, Radboud University Nijmegen

Extraordinary Alexander von Humboldt Lecture by occasion of visit of Mr. Campusano:
"Exclusion from Citizenship Rights for Expatriates: The Chilean case"

Raul F. Campusano Droguett (Departamento Jur�dico, Ministerio de Miner, Santiago, Chili)
Joint Initiative of the Department of Human Geography and The Department of Political Sciences (Prof. dr. Marcel Wissenburg)
Wednesday
June 13, 2007
Time and Place will be announced
Free entry

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture:
"Diaspora and Development: The Triangulation of Exit, Voice and Loyalty"

Emacs!

Prof. Thomas Faist (Center on Migration, Citizenship and Development, University of Bielefeld, Germany)
Monday
September 24, 2007
17:30-19:30
Thomas van Aquinostraat 1.0.02, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

Research Seminar with Prof. Thomas Faist
"The Erosion and Expansion of Citizenship: Multiculatural and Multiple Citizenship"
Tuesday
September 25, 2007
14:00-17:00
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3.0.27, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture:
"Immigration and Democratic Principles"

Prof. Joseph Carens (Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Canada)
Monday
October 15, 2007
17:30-19:30
Thomas van Aquinostraat 1.0.02, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

Research Seminar with Prof. Joseph Carens
Tuesday
October 16, 2007
14:00-17:00
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3.0.27, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

Alexander von Humboldt Lecture:
"Illegal/Irregular Immigration in Europe"

Prof. Franck D�vell (Centre on Migration, Policy and Society, University of Oxford, United Kingdom)

Monday
November 26, 2007
17:30-19:30
Thomas van Aquinostraat 1.0.02, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

Research Seminar with Prof. Franck D�vell on: "Transit Migration on the Fringes of Europe"
Tuesday
November 27, 2007
14:00-17:00
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3.0.27, Radboud University Nijmegen
Free entry

TRANS-WORLD
Debating the Openness of Borders in the Age of Transnational Migration

The The Departement of Human Geography of the Radboud University of Nijmegen cordially invites you to the Alexander von Humboldt Lecture series on the theme of 'Trans-World: Debating the Openness of Borders in the Age of Transnational Migration'. Under this theme, we will analyse issues of borders and belonging in the current age of transnational migration. It is almost a truism to say that the world of today has become increasingly interconnected. Capital, information, services and goods are crossing borders on an increasing scale. What is more, migration increasingly has become transnational migration, meaning that it has become easier due cheaper ways of transportation and communication to stay in close touch with the country of origin while being in the host country. As a result, some commentators have argued that national identities and national communities have transformed into transnational identities and transnational communities. To conceive of the world primarily in terms of the rationally organised hierarchies of the sharply bounded territorial containers associated with classical modernity is therefore no longer adequate, if it ever was. At the same time however, in the last few years, issues of transnationalism and immigration are increasingly perceived, at least by some, as dangerous migration streams that risk flooding the protective and protected lands of domestic sovereignty. In this context the desire to control and reclaim space, power and national identity has recently found new nationalistic political adherents and partisans.

More and more governments of host countries are recognizing the need to establish, modernize, and improve their laws, policies, practices and administrative structures for ensuring orderly migration, while at the same wishing to stimulate national and local integration of the immigrants and dimming possible xenophobia. At the same time, governments of source countries are also looking for migration policies which can help to optimise the positive impact while reducing the negative implications. We would argue however, that these debates are currently taking place in isolation: immigration countries dominantly aim at controlling migration by closing the borders, whereas more and more emigration countries are stimulating people to emigrate because of the beneficial remittances that are brought 'home', often without knowing what is an 'appropriate policy' for optimising the development impact. At both sides, each national government has its own goals and priorities, despite tendencies at the level of the UN and the EU to formulate more integrated and cohesive policies. A more concerted view or vision on a sustainable governmental approach to immigration is searched for in the source and host countries.

In this new Von Humboldt series we wish to contribute to a better understanding of the long-term implications of global migration for the development and governance of (local) places, and more specifically reflect on what impact a further opening of the borders will have on (local) societies of source/host countries. In doing so, this project wishes to reflect on global-and-local governmental approaches that enhance the beneficial aspects and at the same time develop mechanisms to restrict the negative implications of migration, both in the host as in the source countries and regions. In analysing this, we will reflect on the interplay between the various actors involved, that is the bordering, migration and development policies of the sending countries, the host countries and the transit countries vis-�-vis and the migrants themselves.

More particular, we will explore and discuss the tension that seemingly lies at the heart of current border practices, that is on the one hand practices of biopolitical control, the production of citizens and strangers, the carving up of domains of knowledge and purified 'dreamlands' of id/entity; and on the other an the generation of a (dreamland of) escape into radical openness, into a world of global development and global distributive justice. Both ends seem of the domain seem to be needed. But where is the balance? How open are the national borders in the current world? And how open do we want them to be?

Questions that are relevant for us then are: How do different migration and border regimes influence migrants' transnational attachment to place, notions of community/identity and belonging and how home-making and home- breaking practices are constructed and politicised. How do different border and migration regimes translate into (new) structures of opportunity, and how to optimise the development impact? How much transnationalism and globalisation can we bear? How much home and belonging do we need? How much transnationalism and globalisation do we need? How open do we allow political borders to be? Given the apparently contradictory spatialities of borders, reflected in their capacity to articulate both transcendent closure and immanent openness, we may assert that attempts to border migrants are inherently partial, selective, and opportunistic, both in their representation as in the interests that they serve. In short, rather than to attempt to strategise on the national political issue of finding measures for increased assimilation and control, we wish to inverse the question and take a transnational perspective, the perspective of the world as a whole, and analyse to what extent do we allow and can we optimise the openness of borders for migration in, what we tentatively call, the 'Trans-World'.

Drawing upon your own interest and/or research we invite you to engage with the issues raised here. Building on recent major scholarly interventions addressing these concerns, an international roster of guest lecturers will be invited to Nijmegen to collaborate with in-house staff, external scholars and students to analyse and evaluate the policies and (moral) consequences of border and migration policies in an increasingly interlinked world.

Prof. dr. Huib Ernste
Chair
Human Geography
University of Nijmegen
Thomas van Aquinostraat 3 (room: 3.01_46)
P.O.Box 9108
NL-6500 HK Nijmegen
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http://www.ru.nl/socgeo
tel: +31-(0)24-361 19 25 (secretary)
tel: +31-(0)24-361 15 82 (direct)
fax: +31-(0)24 361 18 41
tel/fax: +31-(0)24-360 92 31 (home)

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Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA
* alan.lew {at}nau.edu; http://AlanLew.com
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* Tourism Geographies : An International Journal <TGJournal.com>
* Geography for Travelers podcast & blog < TravelGeography.info>
* Travelography: World Travel & Tourism News at PodcasterNews.com <TravelGeography.info>
* Web 2.0 Travel Tools and Web 2.0 Teaching Tools <Web20Travel.com & Web20Teach.com>
* Heritage & Tourism Conference, 8-10 July 2006, Guangzhou, China <www.geog.nau.edu/igust/China2007>
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#674

From: "Leontine Onderwater" <leontine.onderwater@...>
Date: Fri May 4, 2007 7:40 am
Subject: ATLAS SIG Spa and Wellness Tourism Meeting 2007

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ATLAS SIG Spa and Wellness Tourism
Meeting 2007

Historic concept, future prospects

25 - 28 June 2007, Budapest, Hungary

Abstract submission date: May 14th 2007

Introduction

Wellness tourism is one of the most ancient forms of tourism if one considers the scrupulous attention paid to wellbeing by Romans and Greeks, the quests for spiritual enlightenment of Mediaeval Pilgrims, or the medical seaside and spa tourism of the 18th and 19th Century European �lite. Arguably however, there has been an intensification in the pursuit of wellness in the history of tourism in recent years. The proliferation of wellness centres, holistic retreats, spas, spiritual pilgrimages, complementary and alternative therapies is unprecedented. Not only are many people increasingly concerned about their physical, social and psychological wellbeing in their everyday lives, but they are also prepared to travel long distances to experience different forms of wellness tourism. This ranges from the immersion of the body in the healing waters of a spa to the quest for spiritual enlightenment in an ashram, or even cosmetic enhancement through surgical treatments or beauty therapies.

The focus of this first Spa and Wellness Special Interest Group meeting will be to examine the changing nature of wellness tourism from its origins to contemporary developments. We will analyse the diverse range of definitions, products, services, destinations and tourist motivations as well as discussing future directions for research.

Conference Themes

Abstracts for presentations are invited on the following themes:

History of spa and wellness tourism
Definitions, scoping, typologies of wellness tourism
Product development in the wellness tourism sector
Motivations and profiles of wellness tourists
Marketing wellness tourism
Wellness resort and hotel development
Holistic, New Age, and Esoteric tourism
Yoga and other forms of spiritual tourism
Medical tourism

Abstract submission

All abstracts will be subject to double-blind review by at least two members of the scientific committee. Acceptance of a submission will be based on: theoretical and empirical significance; methodological soundness; relevance to the theme of the conference; technical competency; and logical clarity. The official language of the conference is English.

Abstracts should be submitted via e-mail attachment to ATLAS (admin@...) no later than May 14th, 2007 and should include author's name, institution, contact address/e-mail and title. Abstracts (approximately 250-500 words) should indicate background, theoretical/ practical implications, methods and/or data sources, and indicative findings of the paper. The title should be no more than 12 words. Up to 6 keywords should be provided. Authors should also indicate clearly which theme(s) of the conference their proposed paper relates to. Abstracts not clearly related to the theme of the conference will not be accepted. Receipt of abstracts will be acknowledged and decisions on acceptance made and provided no later than May 31, 2007.

More Information

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From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Thu May 17, 2007 4:48 pm
Subject: Fwd: Diaspora, Festivals and Tourism Conference

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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

Journeys of Expressions VI: Diaspora Community Festivals and Tourism

4-6 October 2007, York, United Kingdom

The enforced, encouraged or voluntary movement, migration and dispersion of people is reflected in the family backgrounds, life histories and cultural practices of communities in many countries, regions and cities worldwide. Mobilities associated with the processes of globalisation are demonstrably, if unevenly, contributing to an acceleration of migration for more or less permanent, official and legal settlement of people beyond their 'homelands'. Tourism has also grown substantially and unevenly in recent years, with tourists increasingly encouraged to attend and participate in 'exotic' and 'characteristically authentic' displays of community life in destinations visited. Such tourism typically features the packaging, promotion and consumption of diaspora community neighbourhoods, food and shopping and importantly festivals and cultural events. The relationships between diaspora communities, festivity, cultural events and tourism are therefore of considerable interest to academic researchers, as well as for arts, social, cultural and tourism policy makers and practitioners.

Issues addressed include:
- Defining and conceptualising diasporas in connection with festivals and cultural events;
- Histories of diaspora communities' mobilities and the transformation and adaptation of festivity and cultural events to new community circumstances and settings;
- Relationships between diaspora communities and the 'homeland' and expressions of collective memory through festivals and cultural events;
- The distribution and circulation of globalised diaspora festival forms � e.g. carnival, mela, Irish, Chinese, Jewish � religious and secular, established, emerging and contested;
- The role of diaspora festivals and cultural events in policies and programmes to promote community cohesion, crime reduction and anti-racism;
- Festivals, cultural events and the identities of diaspora community members - inter-generational issues;
- Festivals, cultural events and the multi- (inter-) cultural city;
- Settings and spaces for diaspora festivals and cultural events;
- Issues surrounding new and recently introduced diaspora community festivals and cultural events;
- Performing diaspora community arts through festivals; Diaspora tourism markets.

In the tradition of the Journeys of Expressions conference series, we wish to encourage an interdisciplinary debate on the suggested themes and welcome paper proposals from academics from various disciplinary backgrounds including: tourism studies, festival studies, sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, cultural geography, politics, etc.

More information regarding this conference please visit www.tourism-culture.com or email Dr Philip Long ( p.e.long@... ).

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change
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Leeds Metropolitan University
The Old School Board, Calverley Street
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Date: Fri May 18, 2007 3:10 pm
Subject: Codes of Ethics in Tourism - New book from Channel View Publications

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CODES OF ETHICS IN TOURISM

Practice, Theory, Synthesis

David A Fennell (Brock University)

David Malloy (University of Regina)

This book wrestles with the challenging but growing field of codifying ethical behaviour of tourism companies as a policy mechanism to move from definitions to change practice. The balance between tourism and ethics expertise of the two authors works well to deliver a book that is both theoretically informed and policy relevant.

Dr. Xavier Font, International Centre for Responsible Tourism, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

Key Features

- Provides theoretical foundation for the study of tourism codes of ethics

- Examines tourism codes of ethics from a variety of perspectives

With ethics fast becoming a mainstay in tourism studies and the tourism industry in general, this volume provides a timely and intensive look at the theory and practice of codes of ethics in tourism. While the book includes a broad overview of what has been done to date in tourism studies in the area of code development and implementation, it ranges much more widely to incorporate theoretical work from outside the tourism field in an effort to synthesise theory and practice.

Contents

Section I: Context

1. Setting the Stage: Epistemology & Ethics; 2. The Problem

Section II: Calculative Thinking

1: Organisational Expressions of Ethics

2: Surveying the Tourism Landscape

3: Code Development and Compliance

Section III – Meditative Thinking

4: Mapping the Theoretical Terrain of Ethics

Section IV - Synthesis

5: Codes-in-Action

6: Conclusion

David Fennell teaches and researches mainly in the areas of ecotourism and tourism ethics. He has published widely in these areas, including sole authored books on ecotourism programme planning, a general text on ecotourism, and tourism ethics� (he has edited two other books). Fennell is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the

Journal of Ecotourism, and is an active member on editorial boards of many academic journals.

David Cruise Malloy, PhD, is a professor of applied philosophy in the Faculty of Kinesiology & Health Studies at the University of Regina, Canada.� His primary research focus is in the realm of ethical decision-making, leadership, and ethical climate in healthcare and organisational contexts. Malloy's research is funded by both the Social Science & Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. He has authored numerous articles in ethics and ontology. This is his fourth text.

Aspects of Tourism�� 234 x 156 (R8vo) 16/05/2007�� 192pp

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#677

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Sun May 20, 2007 5:29 pm
Subject: Do you blog?

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Do you blog about travel, tourism, or higher education?

If yes, please send me an email and let me know what you are doing.

Cheers
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#678

From: "Syed Liyakhat, EQUATIONS" <liyakhat.s@...>
Date: Tue May 22, 2007 7:53 am
Subject: EQUATIONS Statement on International Biodiversity Day, 22nd May 2007

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CLIMATE CHANGE, BIODIVERSITY AND TOURISM

EQUATIONS Statement on International Biodiversity Day, 22nd May 2007

Global climate change is probably the most severe environmental threat in the 21^st century. Alarm bells have started to ring worldwide for many important aspects of life like access to water, food production, health, extreme weather conditions and abrupt and irreversible environmental changes.

In 2003, the UN World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) held its first Summit on Climate Change and Tourism in Djerba, Tunisia, which set a proactive call for response from different sectors such as national governments, tourism companies, academic institutions, NGOs and private and public sectors in the form of the Djerba Declaration. It recognised the complex relationship between tourism and climate change, the existing and rapidly worsening impact of climate change on tourism development in sensitive ecosystems and also the contribution of tourism industry to climate change. Today climate change is a top issue for policymakers around the world and tourism is becoming an important element of the discussions. This is because climate represents a key resource for tourism and climate related risks in the form of changing weather patterns and extreme conditions can have a serious impact on travel patterns.

On the other hand the tourism industry itself is a contributor to climate change by generating greenhouse gas emissions through travellers' consumption of transport services, notably road and air transport, and high levels of energy consumption like air conditioning, heating and lighting in tourism establishments. The aviation industry is the biggest threat as it is the fastest growing source of greenhouse gases, growing at a rate of 5% per year and contributing to 3% of global emissions. Air travel, particularly long haul international flights emitting greenhouse gases at high cruising altitudes, adds substantially to climate change effects.

The earth’s biodiversity has also not been spared. There is a two way relationship between biodiversity and climate: biodiversity is threatened by human-induced climate change and climate change is already forcing biodiversity to adapt either through shifting habitat or changing life cycles.

The relentless expansion of the tourism industry is a major cause for concern. Tourism continues to pervade coasts and islands, especially in the developing nations leading to undesirable impacts on ecosystems and biodiversity. Even Multilateral Environmental Agreements like the Convention on Biological Diversity also continue to promote tourism as a market based conservation scheme in coastal and island ecosystems without application of the precautionary principle, as suggested by the Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus in the Eight Conference of Parties to the Convention.

Communities that live on coastal areas and small island states face serious risks due to sea level rise. They face the brunt of displacement through expansion of tourism facilities and establishments on the one hand. On the other, their livelihoods such as fishing are affected due to the fact that ecosystems like coral reefs that support fish populations are dying as a result of climate change impacts. In mountainous regions melting of glaciers pose the risk of floods and threatens the lives and livelihoods of communities which are dependent on agriculture. Forest diversity is also threatened by climate change which in turn threatens the livelihood of forest dependent communities. A significant stretch of the Mediterranean coast faces desertification due to decrease in rain and rise in temperatures over long periods of time, posing a threat to tourism and thus impacting local communities reliant on tourism.

EQUATIONS calls upon governments to take serious and urgent steps for the implementation of conventions, protocols and resolutions related to climate change. We urge them to take cognisance of the tourism and linked transportation and aviation industries as a significant factors contributing to climate change, and therefore to formulate international and domestic environmental and tourism policies and regulatory mechanisms, to adapt and mitigate climate change impacts.

The tourism industry is notorious for high per capita consumption of water, poor energy efficiency, waste management issues and serious negative environmental impacts. We call upon the tourism industry to take on the challenge of an authentic response to the climate change crisis by implementing measures to reduce energy consumption in tourism establishments by employing energy-efficient and appropriate green technologies. We recognise that this may require a significant transformation of current forms of mass tourism and we urge a serious engagement on this issue to reduce tourism’s climate change footprint.

We question corporations and international financial institutions like the World Bank who promote market based measures such as carbon trading and carbon sinks which we believe are unsustainable and false measures. We seek a complete halt to financing fossil fuel exploration and demand serious investment in alternative sustainable energy options. Along with peoples movements all over the world, we condemn the rush into biofuels and carbon sinks as these lead to destruction of forests, increase monoculture, promote large agribusiness and pose serious threats to subsistence agriculture and food security

We call for climate justice and the need to recognise that the single minded pursuance of unsustainable growth strategies puts our common future at peril.

The responsibility of seeking viable and sustainable solutions to avert the climate crisis must take into account particularly the plight of the most vulnerable communities around the world.

EQUATIONS

International Biodiversity Day 22 May 2007

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From: "Elinor Robertson" <Elinor@...>
Date: Wed May 23, 2007 1:05 pm
Subject: International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education 16:1 - Now available

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International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education

Volume 16, Number 1, 2007

Editorial: Sustainable Environments or Sustainable Cultures. Research Priorities

John Lidstone and Joseph Stoltman

Objectives and Constraints in Geographical Fieldwork: Teachers’ Attitudes and Perspectives in Senior High Schools in Taiwan

Lin-Fang Han and Nicholas H. Foskett

Assessing the Quality of Essays Using the SOLO Taxonomy: Effects of Field and Classroom-based Experiences by ‘A’ Level Geography Students

Ernest Munowenyu

Global to Local: International Conferences and Environmental Education in The People’s Republic of China

Marie-Claude Roch, Kenneth E. Wilkening and Paul Hart

Digital Libraries Creating Environmental Identity Through Solving Geographical Problems

Chew-Hung Chang and John G Hedberg

Linking Theory to Practice: A Case Study of Pupils’ Course Work on Freshwater Pollution

Karolina �sterlind and Ola Halld�n

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#680

From: Joachim Willms <jwillms@...>
Date: Tue May 22, 2007 12:25 pm
Subject: Update [05/2007] of the TOURISM-FUTURES.ORG website list of upcoming conferences.

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With apologies for cross-postings

Update of the TOURISM-FUTURES.ORG website list of upcoming conferences.

There are currently more than 45 international conferences listed, and more than 20 of these listed conferences have call for papers with deadlines after 30.05.2007.

T he future of TOURISM', a Club of Amsterdam Conference, 31.05.2007, Amsterdam
4th CIRCLE Conference: Marketing, Consumer Behaviour & Religious Tourism, Calabrai/I, 12.-14.04.2007
IASK - Global Management Conference 2007, Faro, P, 2.-05.05.2007
International Colloquium on Tourism and Leisure, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 7. - 10.05.2007
ATLAS 'SIG Mass Tourism' Meeting, Coventry University, UK, 14.05.2007
Global Ecotourism Conference, Oslo, N, 14-16.05.2007
“The cultural approach in geography”; Oulu, FIN, 25. - 26.05.2007
"GEOMED2007", Antalya, Turkey, 5, - 8.06.2007
5th CPTHL Symposium, Charleston, SC, USA; 4.-6.06.2007
3rd Annual Conference on Tourism and Hospitality Research, Dundalk, Ireland, 12. - 13.06.2007
6TH International Symposium on Aspects of Tourism, Brighton, UK, 13 - 15.06.2007
2nd. International Critical Tourism Studies Conference, Spilt, CR, 20-23.06.2007
HITA 2007 Conference, Orlando, FL, USA, 24.-25.06.2007
ATLAS SIG Spa and Wellness Tourism Meeting 2007, Budapest, Hungary, 25. - 28.06.2007
LSA - Leisure Studies Association Conference 2007, Brighton, UK, 3.-5.07.2007
Heritage and Tourism: An International Conference, Guangzhou, China, 8-10.07.2007
IMC Krems International Conference 'Blogs in Tourism', Kitzbuehel, A, 12.07.2007
"Digital Communities 2007", Tallinn and Helsinki, 8. - 12.07.2007
IMGS - 'Changing Geographies of Public Health' , Bonn, GER, 09. - 13.07.2007
5th Coastal & Marine Tourism Congress, Auckland, NZ, 11-14.07.2007
3rd International Lake Tourism Conference, Gy�ngy�s, Hungry, 13 - 15.07.2007
3rd Tourism Outlook Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16.-18.07.2007
The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel, Leeds University, UK, 19 - 23.07.2007
'Planning and Management Heritage for the Future', Marriot Putrajaya, Malaysia, 30.07.-01.08.2007
EUGEO2007; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; 20. - 23.08.2007
ATLAS SIG Gastronomy and Tourism RG, Meeting 2007, Viano do Castelo, P, 04.09.2007
ATLAS Annual Conference 2007, Viana do Castelo, P, 5.-7.09.2007
atmc2007 - Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference, Valencia, ES, 10-12.09.2007
"NEW THREATS AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE TOURISM SECTOR", IPAG, Paris, F, 14.09.2007
'Responsible Tourism in Destinations', Kerala, India, 20,-24.09.2007
2nd Latin American Parks Congress, Bariloche, Argentina, 30.09. - 06.10.2007
The World Conservation Forum, Barcelona, E, 05. -14.10.2007
Journeys of Expressions VI, York, UK, 04.-06.10.2007
'Cruise Shipping Opportunities and Challenges', CNR-IRAT/IAME/ATLAS/UoN, Naples, I, 04.-06.10.2007
Travel Symposiuum 2007: Lisbon 07.10.2007 - Fort Lauderdale 22.10.2007 - Beijing 05.11.2007
EUROCHRIE2007, Leeds University, UK, 25 - 27.10.2007
5th ATLAS Africa Conference 'Tourism and Wealth Creation', Kampala, UG, 27. - 29.10.2007
cim2007 'Sports and Active Tourism', Estoril, P, 23. - 25.11.2007
"Tourism and Global Change in Polar Regions" , Oulu, FIN, 29.11.-01.12.2007
11th DGT-Colloqium 'Profile Generation and Branding', L�neburg, GER, 31.11. - 01.12.2007
"Beyond the Bollywood Oscars", Leeds, UK, 06. - 07.12.2007
"Dangerous Trade: Histories of Industrial Hazard ...", Stony Brook, NY, USA, 13. - 15.12.2007
Symposium "The Olympic Games in East Asia", Kansas, USA, Spring 2008
4th World Conf. for Graduate Research in THL, Antalya, Turkey, 23. - 27.04.2008
"A Suburban World?", Reston, VA, USA, 6. - 8.04.2008
'Competion in Tourism', TTRA Europen Chapter Conf.; Helsinki, SU, 23.- 25.04.2008
�

Miscellaneous

-- The ETC has published its latest (2006) report on "Tourism Trends in Europe". [More]

-- The latest list of UNESCO World Heritage Events

-- Air Traffic Safety Issues:
------- New ATSB Report "How Old is Too Old? The impact of ageing aircraft on aviation safety"
------- EASA Safety Information

-- An international comparative study about airline mergers in 20 countries: The International Drivers of
Domestic Airline Mergers in Twenty Nations: Integrating Industrial Organization and International Business

-- The World Economic Forum has launched the first-ever Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index covering 124 countries around the world.
"A cross-country analysis of the drivers of competitiveness in travel and tourism will provide useful comparative information for making business decisions and provide additional value to governments wishing to improve their travel and tourism environments. “The index is not a ‘beauty contest’, or a statement about the attractiveness of a country. On the contrary, the index measures the factors that make it attractive to develop the travel and tourism industry of individual countries,” said Jennifer Blanke, Senior Economist of the WEF."

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Joachim

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#681

From: "Elinor Robertson" <Elinor@...>
Date: Fri May 25, 2007 2:58 pm
Subject: Pro-Poor Tourism - Current Issues in Tourism Special Issue

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Current Issues in Tourism

Volume 10, Numbers 2&3, 2007

Pro-Poor Tourism: Perspectives on Tourism and Poverty Reduction

Special Issue

Pro-Poor Tourism: Do ‘Tourism Exchanges Benefit Primarily the Countries of the South’?

C. Michael Hall

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100111.htm

Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: An Integrative Research Framework

Weibing Zhao and J. R. Brent Ritchie

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100119.htm

Tourism as a Tool for Poverty Alleviation: A Critical Analysis of ‘Pro-Poor Tourism’ and Implications for Sustainability

Stephanie Chok, Jim Macbeth and Carol Warren

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100144.htm

Growth Versus Equity: The Continuum of Pro-Poor Tourism and Neoliberal Governance

Daniela Schilcher

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100166.htm

Lao Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Community-Based Tourism and the Private Sector

David Harrison and Steven Schipani

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100194.htm

Exploring the Tourism-Poverty Nexus

Regina Scheyvens

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100231.htm

Nature-Based Tourism and Poverty Alleviation: Impacts of Private Sector and Parastatal Enterprises In and Around Kruger National Park, South Africa

Anna Spenceley and Harold Goodwin

http://www.channelviewpublications.net/cit/010/cit0100255.htm

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From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Sat May 26, 2007 5:28 am
Subject: JTTM: Geography and Tourism Marketing Final CFP

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Just a reminder that Initial Abstracts are due to either David or me at the end of this month (31 May 2007).

Cheers
Alan

* Apologies for cross-posting *

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS

GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM MARKETING

SPECIAL ISSUE OF THE JOURNAL OF TRAVEL AND TOURISM MARKETING

In 1997 the late Martin Oppermann edited a special issue of JTTM that
provided an initial exploration of geographic issues in tourism marketing.
That volume brought together several themes, including spatial behavior,
visitor market segmentation, the concept of place, and distribution and
promotion channels. Since then, however, new challenges and solutions have
emerged for travel and tourism marketing. Market segmentation, place
marketing, GIS and informatics, and distribution channels are all still very
important geographic concepts that significantly influence marketing
activities. However, the scope, scale and geography of tourism and mobility
have changed significantly since 1997. The interface of geography and
tourism marketing now includes new forms of distribution (internet-based),
transportation (low-cost, low-fare airlines), destinations (security
awareness), technology (social media), services (location-based mapping),
and motivations (hybrid and fusion cultures). While geographic place and
space still matter, it can matter in different ways and through different
opportunities than in the past.

The purpose of this special issue is to explore current and emerging
synergies between geography and geographical concepts and tourism marketing.
The editors welcome research papers on related topics, including but not
necessarily limited to:

- Marketing space and place
- The relationship between service and location/geography
- Managing destinations: distribution channels and geographic dispersal
- Destination Marketing Organizations: managing change in turbulent
geopolitical environments
- Applications of GIS and spatial/location information systems
- Shifting flows: origin/destination pairings and networks
- Identifying and securing target markets
- Globalization, migration and diaspora factors in tourism marketing
- Tourist spatial behavior and travel decision-making in place marketing
- Evolving operational structures and geographic competitive advantage
- Regulatory environments and strategic marketing of places
- Global mobility flows and consequences for targeted or direct marketing
- New forms of place marketing, such as podcasts/blogs, social software and
Web 2.0websites

Submissions may be theoretically oriented or more applied in nature.

SubmissionGuidelines

Abstracts of between 1000 and 1200 words should be submitted no later than
31 May 2007. Authors will be notified of acceptance no later than 30 June.
Full papers to be submitted no later than 30 September 2007. Full papers
will be blind reviewed by at least two reviewers. Depending on the response,
the articles may also be published in book format.

Submit abstracts (in English) via email to:

Professor Alan Lew
Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation
College of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Northern Arizona University
Email: alan.lew (at) nau.edu

and

Dr David Timothy Duval
Department of Tourism / International Business Programme
School of Business
University of Otago
Email: dduval (at) business.otago.ac.nz

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#683

From: "Neil Carr" <ncarr@...>
Date: Tue May 29, 2007 1:34 am
Subject: PhD opportunities in tourism studies at the University of Otago

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Aplogises for cross-posting but could you please forward this opportunity to
students who may be interested


The Tourism Department at the University of Otago, New Zealand is one of the
world's leading research institutes in the field of tourism and its related
disciplines. The department is home to an array of leading, internationally
recognised researchers and a highly active postgraduate program that includes
over thirty PhD students from across the globe. The University of Otago and the
Commerce faculty at the university, of which the Tourism Department is a part,
offer approximately 140 PhD scholarships (these cover all tuition costs and
provide for living expenses). These scholarships are awarded on a competitive
basis and are open to both domestic and international applicants. The Tourism
Department has obtained 15 of these scholarships in the last two years.



As an integral part of the PhD process the Tourism Department at the University
of Otago provides financial support to all students to attend domestic and
international conferences and to undertake fieldwork pertinent to their studies.
Students are also encouraged to engage in tutorial and teaching opportunities
(for which they are paid) where appropriate.

All PhD students, irrespective of their nationality, pay domestic level tuition
fees of NZ$3585 per year (as of 2007). Furthermore, international PhD students
are eligible to work in paid employment for up to 20 hours per week during term
time and full-time during summer vacation. Partners of all international
postgraduate students are able to apply for an open work permit valid for the
duration of the student's course of study. In addition, international PhD
students with children should note that they may attend school in New Zealand
without paying international student fees.

Potential applicants should note that there is no closing date for PhD
applications, but applications for University of Otago and Commerce faculty
scholarships close on the 1st of November.



If you are interested in pursuing a PhD in the Tourism Department at the
University of Otago please visit the departmental website
(www.business.otago.ac.nz/tourism) for more details on the variety and nature of
research being undertaken by staff and postgraduate students and contact the
departmental PhD coordinator, Dr Neil Carr (ncarr@...), to
begin the application process.

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#684

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Thu May 31, 2007 12:06 am
Subject: Re: Do you blog?

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I got some interesting responses to my "Do You Blog?" query last week. Based on the response. there are, a bit surprisingly, very few blogger among the groups that I emailed this question to. However, those who did respond are using blogs in a variety of different ways, from personal travel diaries, to teaching and research.

Go to this link for a full report on what I found:

http://tourismplace.blogspot.com/2007/05/why-dont-we-blog-university-faculty.html

Cheers
Alan

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Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA
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On 5/20/07, Alan A. Lew <alan.lew@...> wrote:

Do you blog about travel, tourism, or higher education?

If yes, please send me an email and let me know what you are doing.

Cheers
Alan

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Department of Geography, Planning and Recreation,
Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona 86011-5016, USA
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* Heritage & Tourism Conference, 8-10 July 2006, Guangzhou, China < www.geog.nau.edu/igust/China2007>
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#685

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Thu May 31, 2007 12:12 am
Subject: FWD: SOCCER WORLD CUP EVENTS RESEARCH

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LOOKING FOR RESEARCH ON PREVIOUS SOCCER WORLD CUP EVENTS

I am part of a team of researchers who are currently conducting research for one of the provincial destination marketing organizations in South Africa, Cape Town Routes Unlimited in the Western Cape. We are trying to establish the parameters of sport, but specifically football tourists for events such as the FIFA World Cup, and to understand the nature of these tourists. This is all to assist with the planning for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

South African DMOs know very little about soccer tourists. We are interested in studies that have been conducted on the travel patterns, preferences and other tourism-specific behaviour of spectators and participants at FIFA World Cups or events of similar order and nature. I.e where are the spectators from, how long do they stay at the World Cup, where do they go between matches, how far from the stadiums to they prefer to stay, what is their socio-demographic make-up, etc.

If you are aware of institutions (academic or government) we could approach or if you have been been conducting studies before or after previous world cup events please contact me on swartk@... and rdonaldson@... and sc3@...

Thank you.

Ronnie Donaldson, Dept of Geography, University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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#686

From: "Carl, Daniela" <d.carl@...>
Date: Thu May 31, 2007 4:46 pm
Subject: Things that move: The material world of tourism and travel, Leeds/ UK, 19-23 July 07

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***Apologies for cross posting***

List members might be interested in the following forthcoming conference announcement

Things that Move:

The Material Worlds of Tourism and Travel

19 – 23 July 2007, Leeds, United Kingdom

Things that Move is the fifth in our series of annual conferences. Previous events have focused on the relationships between Tourism and Photography, Tourism and Literature and Tourism and Performance. This event aims to explore the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and material culture – the built environment, consumer and household goods, art, souvenirs, ephemera and landscapes. The themes of this conference emerge within the field of critical tourism studies and related approaches in the social sciences and humanities. We are interested in the political economy, the aesthetics and fabrication of tourism materiality, in the contact zones in which this materiality is given meaning and exchanged, and in the power of this materiality to encapsulate experience and to enable ‘participation’ in social life.

Conference Themes

Themes that the conference will address include:
Distance, Enchantment and the Power of ‘Exotic’ Objects
Tourism Souvenirs, Acting Objects and Commodity Fetishism
Tourism Liturgy, ‘Relics’, and Pilgrimage Shrines in Late Modernity
The Tourist Object as Metaphor and Memory
Built Environments, Spatial Design and Architecture for Tourism
Art, Display and Museographic Elevation in the Postcolonial Era
Curating for Tourism – Collecting the Worlds of the Tourist
Asserting Meaning to, Translating and Contesting Objects in Tourism Settings and Performances
Overcoming the Material Through the Virtual – Future Realms of Tourist Experience

Keynote Speakers

Mark Jones, the Director of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, is one of our keynote speakers. Mark, a former Director of the National Museums of Scotland heads up one of the world’s greatest museums of art and design. The Museum currently features a diverse range of exhibitions including: the evolving image of Kylie Minogue (Kylie—The Exhibition); the shadows of slave trading in contemporary art & design (Uncomfortable Truths); James Athenian Stuart’s ‘rediscovery’ of antiquity in the 18th century; and ‘Surreal Things’ exploring the relations between surrealism and design.

Our second keynote speaker, Mitchell Schwarzer, is Chair of Visual Studies and Architecture at California College of the Arts, USA and will give a keynote paper on Architectural Vacation Packages: 6 Name-Brand Architects from $1199. Prof. Schwartzer has widely published on architecture in transnational and tourism contexts. Publications include: German Architectural Theory (1995), Zoomscape: Architecture in Motion and Media (2004), and the upcoming Home Egonomics: America's Obsession with Real Estate.

For any enquiry or further information about the conference, accommodation or registration, please contact the conference administrator, Ms Daniela Carl, at ctcc@... or in writing to:

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University

Faculty of Arts and Society

The Old School Board, Calverley Street

Leeds LS1 3ED, United Kingdom

Tel. ++44 (0) 113 283 8541

Fax.++44 (0) 113 283 8544

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#687

From: "Carl, Daniela" <d.carl@...>
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2007 1:30 pm
Subject: Vacancies at the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK

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Apologies for cross-postings

List members may be interested in the vacancies advertised below:

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Faculty of Arts and Society

Leeds Metropolitan University

Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change

Leeds Metropolitan University is building on its long standing record in tourism, cultural education and research with major interdisciplinary initiatives. The Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change provides exciting opportunities for talented academics wishing to innovate and lead in areas of research examining the relationships between tourism and culture(s).

Based in the Faculty of Arts and Society and working across all Faculties, the Centre is an international, transdisciplinary group whose aim is to critically engage in the understanding of the multi-faceted relationships between tourism and culture(s) through research, consultancy, conferences, publications and the building of partnerships and global networks. Located in the historic Old School Board building in the heart of the City of Leeds, the Centre seeks to develop research, generate ideas, stimulate debate, inform policy and globally disseminate best practice.

Reader in Critical Tourism Studies

�36,675 – �46,114 pa Ref: FAS/R/PRF/CD/THES

Required to lead research in the broad area of tourism and culture. With a PhD in the humanities/social sciences, you will have an outstanding research profile exemplified by strong records in publications, attracting research funding and the supervision of PhD students. As well as developing your own research in the broad field of tourism and culture, you will assist in developing and managing new research projects with colleagues and partner bodies. You will also input into the development of the Masters programme.

2 Research Fellows/Senior Research Fellows –

Temporary for 3 years

�26,199 – �39,033 pa Ref: FAS/RF/SRF/CD/THES

�

Required to contribute to the Centre’s portfolio of international research and development activities. You must possess a PhD with recognised research profile or equivalent long standing research and publication experience relating to one or more of the following areas: the cultural politics of heritage tourism; migration, diaspora and borders; material cultures of/in tourism; tourist behaviours, encounters and contact zones; tourism and performance (ritual, festivals/festivity etc.), tourism aesthetics and visual culture (photography, film etc.); popular culture and tourism.

There will be opportunities to supervise research/doctoral students and to contribute to, and develop, postgraduate teaching.

Applications are encouraged from black and ethnic minority groups, as they are under represented in this area of work. Selection will be on the basis of merit.

Application forms and further details can be downloaded from http://jobs.leedsmet.ac.uk

Alternatively, please telephone 0113 812 5917

or e-mail: artsandsocietyapplication@...

Closing date: Noon - Monday 18 June 2007

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#688

From: "Jim Butcher" <bjb4@...>
Date: Fri Jun 1, 2007 1:34 pm
Subject: Ecotourism, NGOs and Development: A Critical Analysis, by Jim Butcher

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Dear Tourism Geographers

Routledge have just published Ecotourism, NGOs and Development: A
Critical Analysis, by Jim Butcher and it is now available from all
good bookstores or direct from our website.

This topical book examines the advocacy of tourism as sustainable
development in a range of NGOs and within the general literature. It
offers a timely critique of key assumptions underlying ecotourism's
status as sustainable development.

For more information about this exciting new book, including a table
of contents, or to order your copy, simply click on the link below:

<http://www.routledge.com/shopping_cart/products/product_detail.asp?
sku=&isbn=9780415>
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sku=&isbn=9780415
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sku=&isbn=9780415393676> 393676

Best Wishes,


Rachel Lawrence

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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, an Informa business.

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#689

From: "Leontine Onderwater" <leontine.onderwater@...>
Date: Mon Jun 4, 2007 8:12 am
Subject: ATLAS Africa Conference 2007 - Kampala

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Appologies for cross-posting

ATLAS Africa Conference 2007 - Kampala

Tourism and wealth creation

Kampala, Uganda

27-29 October 2007

The deadline for abstract submission has been extended to July 1st 2007!

ATLAS Africa, Makerere University, and SNV-UGANDA invite you to the 5^th ATLAS Africa conference in Kampala, Uganda 27^th - 29^th October 2007.

Tourism constitutes one of the major economic forces of the world. UNWTO statistics since mid 1970s up to today indicate that tourism is a leading sector in terms of economic development, wealth creation and employment apart from oil and petroleum and car manufacturing industries. Tourism has become a significant factor in economic growth, development and in global, national, regional and local economic relations.

The role of tourism in both international and national economies has made governments, stakeholders and academicians to develop economic indicators to measure the impacts: the number of visitor arrivals, receipts from international visitors, visitor expenditure when travelling abroad, its contribution in both international and national export earnings. UNWTO since 1999 developed Tourism Satellite Account (TSA) to specifically measure the contribution of tourism in national wealth creation, employment and investment. In the last decade concepts of sustainable tourism development and pro- poor tourism have emerged to see that tourism is used as a tool to alleviate poverty and create wealth for the poor, disadvantaged and vulnerable groups. Poverty reduction and wealth creation are increasingly seen as new paradigms for economic, social, political and environmental sustainability in developing countries and disadvantaged communities in general.

For a long time, emphasis on poverty reduction and wealth creation has been focusing mostly on agricultural modernization, industrial development and infrastructure development. Particularly agricultural modernization and industrial development are constrained and marred by issues of global competition, inadequate resources, problems of market accessibility in developed countries, use of outdated technology and institutional restrictions. The absurdity is an ever-increasing development gap. The problem of developing countries is further aggravated by rapid population growth, environmental degradation, famine natural and man-made calamities and political instabilities. These issues have resulted into incurable chronic and ever increasing misery and poverty. The unique characteristic feature of tourism is where production and consumption take place at the destination making it free from institutional restrictions, outdated technology and market inaccessibility. This implies that 'new' tourism in principle can positively be used to fight poverty and create wealth at national, regional and local levels. The ideology of using tourism for economic benefit changed drastically after the Rio earth Summit, 1987. Emphasis has been put on mainstreaming local communities in decision-making and control of tourism resources to determine their economic destiny. New tourism approaches - as for example ecotourism, sustainable tourism and pro poor tourism - strive to achieve conservation, local community empowerment and grass root wealth creation. But many of these new approaches are relatively untried and untested; there is as yet no blueprint. Moreover, many questions still have to be properly addressed; what are the dimensions of poverty which tourism can address?; what should be the new roles of players in order to achieve equity at all levels of wealth generation?; what are the best approaches / models to be used to fight poverty through tourism? These and many other questions will be critically examined during this fifth Atlas Africa conference.

Important dates and deadlines

Submission of abstracts of A- and B-papers: 1 July 2007

Notification of acceptance of abstracts: July 2007

Submission of B-papers: 1 August 2007

Notification of acceptance of B-papers: 1 September 2007

Final submission of B-papers: 1 October 2007

Final submission of A-papers: 1 December 2007

More Information can be found on the ATLAS website at www.atlas-euro.org.

Leontine Onderwater
Jantien Veldman

ATLAS
Travit - POBox 3042
6802 DA Arnhem
The Netherlands

Tel: +31-26-4452699
Fax: +31-26-4452932
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***** ATLAS SIG meeting Mass Tourism *****
Whatever happened to 'Sunlust Tourism'?
Coventry University, United Kingdom
May 14, 2007

__________________________________________________
***** ATLAS annual conference 2007 *****
Destinations revisited. Perspectives on developing and managing tourist areas
Viana do Castelo, Portugal
September 5-8, 2007

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***** ATLAS Africa conference 2007 *****
Tourism and wealth creation
Kampala, Uganda
October 27-29, 2007
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#690

From: julieanne harmer <julieanneharmer@...>
Date: Thu Jun 7, 2007 3:38 pm
Subject: Recycling in Tourism Survey

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Apologies for cross posting

Dear Tourism academics and practitioners:

Would you please take five minutes to share your thoughts and insights on recycling in the tourism industry?

If you know of anyone who would be interested filling out the survey, please forward this email to them.

The survey is available at: http://web.biz.uwa.edu.au/units/450504/survey.htm

Kind regards

Julieanne Harmer

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#691

From: alanalew@...
Date: Sun Jun 10, 2007 5:59 am
Subject: Your information

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Hi!
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#692

From: "Marcus L. Endicott" <mendicot@...>
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:25 am
Subject: Re: membership directory

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> Mr. Marcus L. Endicott
> P.O. Box 20837
> St. Simons, GA 31522-0437, U.S.A.
> e-mail: MENDICOTT [at} IGC.APC.ORG

Alan,

Whenever you get a chance could you please change my entry in the
membership directory?  Its way out of date.  I've been living in Byron
Bay, Australia, for the past two years.  I can be reached at this email
address mendicot [at} yahoo.com , and would prefer to have my web site
listed at http://mendicott.com than my snailmail address.  (I don't
want any unecological snailmail anyway.)

Peace on Earth,

  - Marcus L Endicott
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#693

From: "Alan A. Lew" <alanalew@...>
Date: Mon Jun 18, 2007 5:34 pm
Subject: Fwd: VISITING THE PAST MEETING THE LIMES An international symposium on heritage, tourism, planning and design practices

lewalana

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VISITING THE PAST, MEETING THE LIMES

An international symposium on heritage, tourism, planning and design practices
11^th and 12^th October 2007, Central Museum, Utrecht, the Netherlands

www.thepast.nl

Dear Madam or Sir,

Wageningen University, the Dutch Limes Organisation, the University of Leuven, in co-operation with GAIA-heritage, are proud to announce 'Visiting the Past, Meeting the Limes', an international symposium dedicated to heritage, tourism, planning and design practices to which we would like to invite you to take part.

The Symposium aims to explore the multiple meanings and uses of heritage as well as its complex relationships with the tourism sector and with planning and design practices. It will gather international experts and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines to deliver lectures and to participate in debates. As the title suggests, special attention will be paid to the archaeological remains of the Limes, the frontiers of the Roman Empire which run from Western Europe, through the Middle East and all the way to North Africa.

The first day of the Symposium will be devoted to the speakers' presentations and organised in three plenary sessions, providing an insight into the different apprehensions and uses of heritage from an archaeological, tourism, and planning and design perspectives.

The second day will consist of three workshops related to the conservation, (re)presentation and 'touristification' of cultural heritage. Each workshop will focus on a different country along the Limes and discuss how planning and design can respond to the local context. A final plenary session will then mark the closure of the event and will provide the opportunity to develop an interdisciplinary research agenda and create a professional network to promote research, knowledge, and information sharing.

The organisers are delighted to count amongst speakers Dr. Andreas Thiel, Pr. Gregory Ashworth, Dr. Sonja Jilek, Pr. Willem J.H. Willems and many others.

Please find enclosed with this letter the Registration Form to be sent to Marlies Van Hal from Wageningen University at the following email address: info@...

Should you need more information, please do not hesitate to contact us or to visit the Symposium's website www.thepast.nl

On behalf of the organisers, I look forward to hearing from you and to welcoming you in Utrecht in October.

Sincerely,

Prof. Jaap Lengkeek
Socio-Spatial Analysis Group. Wageningen University

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