Travelography
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Alan A. Lew
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Show's Description
The Travelography podcast discusses travel and tourism related news, opinions and more from around the globe. I discuss travel in the news, and news that affects travel.
Archived Post
Travelography 148: Tourism and Political Bedfellows |
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Stories discussed in this podcast are from the Travelography Twitter Blog for the week of 15 to 22 March 2009. This podcast is also available at Blubrry.com and Travelgeography.info. The
global trend in developing luxury, large-scale resorts is leading to
widespread alienation and displacement of people from their land, and
is wreaking havoc with fragile ecosystems. Poor communities in
developing countries, which depend heavily upon their natural resources
for their livelihoods, are the hardest hit.
Americans
United to Halt Tourism in Mexico – formed by Minutemen groups across
the country ... – is urging Americans bound for sun and fun south of
the border to instead visit the U.S. Southwest. "Do not give your
tourist dollars to Mexico!" the fliers say.
Last
summer, the number of nude hikers increased to such an extent that the
hills often seemed alive with the sound of everything but the swish of
trousers.
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for the first time since Serbian and Montenegrin forces besieged this
historic port city in 1991, businesspeople [in Dubrovnik, Croatia] are
publicly appealing to Serbian tourists to help rescue the economy.
...the
drops in new booking revenue that US Airways saw in January and the
first half of February had stopped, and in March even rose a little.
... the overall number of leisure passengers has held up — it's just
that they're paying less to fly than they used to.
One
investigator used the Social Security number of a man who died in 1965,
a fake New York birth certificate and a fake Florida driver's license.
He received a passport four days later. A second attempt had the
investigator using a 5-year-old boy's information but identifying
himself as 53 years old on the passport application. He received that
passport seven days later. |
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Posted March 22, 2009
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