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Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy Dornan

Tourism Geographies - A Rennaissance in the 21st c. - by D'Arcy Dornan

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DATE : Wed, 28 Nov 2007 19:57:00 GMT
Entered in Database : 2007-11-28 19:57:00
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Today's podcast is the last of my recordings from the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, held in San Francisco, CA in April 2007.  

I also talk about changing the name of the Geography for Travelers Podcast to the Travel Geography Podcast.

And I talk about my new Travelography 2.0 Podcast for NaPodPoMo on Utterz.com.

Length: 36min 03sec

Abstract Title from the AAG.org website:
Tourism Geographies: a Renaissance in the 21st Centurytrave

Author: D'Arcy J. Dornan, Ph.D. - Central Connecticut State University

Abstract:
Geography departments are seemingly well positioned to take advantage of the growth in the popularity of tourism as a field of study. The ever-growing international reputation of the journal Tourism Geographies is a good case in point if we can use this journal's success as an indicator of this trend. This paper aims to evaluate and discuss the impacts of academic managerialism and capitalism and related processes to the development of programs, both academic and professional, relating to the geography of tourism, the geography of tourism and hospitality, and to the professional development of tourism. Concrete and recent examples of the aforementioned program types will be drawn from program development efforts in both California and Connecticut. These 'case studies' will be examined and used to illustrate their significant impacts on the growth of this field within geography. Additional comments and conclusions will be taken from one of last year's panel discussions on a different but related topic entitled: 'Tourism geography: lost realities and prospective opportunities,' which sought to assess the current situation and future trends in the academic tourism geographer community in its ability to meet the needs and challenges of the tourism and hospitality industry and of academia.

Keywords:
tourism, geography, impacts, California, Connecticut

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