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COVID-19 RELATED
Emerging Dynamic Tourism Paths Towards a Sustainable New Normal (YouTube) - 30 June 2020 - Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka (about 2hr 15min)
How to “recover” tourism research’s relevance after COVID-19 (YouTube) - 3 June 3 - Temple University, USA and the Travel & Tourism Research Association, TTRA) [download related files here] (1hr 7min) - PDF link to download my presentation only is under "Resilience" below.
PLACE MAKING
Tourism & Placemaking: Disneyfication or Sense of Place? (28 October 2021 - Hiroshima University, Integrated Global Studies Presentation, Japan) - also available: YouTube Video
Landscapes, Peoplescapes, and Mindscapes in Island Tourism Place Making (22 August 2019 - International Island Tourism Conference, Haikou, Hainan, China)
Insider and Outsider Vernacular Place Making in Tourism Destinations (4 April 2019 - American Association of Geographers, Washington, DC)
Heritage as Place Making, Place Making as Heritage (3 October 2018 - 11th Tourism Outlook Conference, Eskisehir, Turkey)
Tourism Place Making as Community Resilience (2 August 2018 - IGU Tourism Commission Conference, La Malbaie, Quebac, Canada)
PUBLISHING & RESEARCH
Writing Skills: SEO, Title, Abstract, Key Words how to position your article for success (16 November 2021, RSA Professional Development Webinar Series, I was one of 3 presenters on the same topic. A video recording will be linked here when it is made available.)
Epistemologies, Paradigms, and Conceptual Frameworks for Research (Fall 2019 - NAU Visiting Scholars Seminar, USA)
Publishing in International High Impact Journals (19 June 2019 - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan)
GLOBAL CONSCIOUSNESS
Risk and the Unknown in the Tourist Experience of Place (20 October 2021 - Hiroshima University, Japan)
Explore Your World, Explore Your Mind: Travel and Tourism after COVID-19 (18 December 2020 - Yamaguchi University, Japan -- AND -- the IGU India International Conference, 19 December 2020; some of the slides were removed and modified for the much shorter India presentation; a video of the India presentation is on YouTube)
Sustainable Tourism, Tourism Resilience and the Search for the Holy(stic) Grail (24 January 2019 - Tourism & The Sustainable Development Goals Conference, Massey University, NZ) (a video of this presentation starts at exactly 35 minutes into a recording available here.)
Tourism as Global Consciousness (March 2018 - Miami University of Ohio, USA)
RESILIENCE (see also the Place Making section, above)
Resilience Theory tells us to Get Ready for an Innovation Explosion Thanks to COVID-19 (22 January 2022 - Hiroshima University)
Resilience, Relevance, and Re-Organizing Tourism Research post COVID-19 (03 June 2020 - Temple University, USA and the Travel & Tourism Research Association, TTRA)
Time and Space in Tourism and Community Disaster Resilience (19 June 2019 - Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Beppu, Japan)
Diaspora Migration and Social Sustainability: A Tourism and Resilience Perspective (21 September 2018 - Nexus of Migration and Tourism: Creating Social Sustainability - Symposium, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Vietnam National University, Hanoi)
OTHER
History & Management of National Protected Areas (Spring 2022, NAU National Parks class, USA)
Capitalism, Political Economy and Tourism (Fall 2020, NAU Visiting Scholars Seminar, USA)