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I’m still behind in reading so I just spotted an interesting article from Sunday’s New York Times: Can Darwin’s Lab Survive Success? During and following this summer’s class in Cultural & Heritage Tourism Development I learned a lot about tourism at World Heritage sites and did my final paper on  endangered world heritage. It’s a [...]

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Quiet here since school has been taking up far too much of my time. I had my ASP (the Tisch Center’s version of a masters’ thesis) proposal due Friday. If that isn’t accepted I have to do a group research project and since I’ve had it with group projects, I really hope my proposal is [...]

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I’d say I’m reading Wikinomics, but the reality is I started it this morning on the train and decided it required way too much brain power for a Tuesday masquerading as Monday. Nevertheless, I like the idea behind the book and it’s dovetailing well with some of the work I’ve been doing lately: tracking social [...]

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Impressive? Well no, I sometimes miss the 18 min door to door from GSH and will probably never top the Wooden Indian, but I thought that was pretty good. I left the office (on 7th between 52nd and 53rd) at 5:15 and walked into the house at 6:22. That included speed walking to the GCT [...]

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So I’m not totally crazy in that I wouldn’t love to live within spitting distance of work and school, however commuting by bus/train has its benefits. Namely I have my reading time back, something rarely seen last year. Today I read 106 pages between the morning and the evening commutes and loved it. Much like [...]

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I’d like to say this is the end of week 1, however I have class tomorrow. Yes, on a Saturday. Ideal, no. Manageable, yes. I think it will be an interesting class. For those who didn’t know, I got the internship I really wanted at NYC & Company. I’ve been there for three days and [...]

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so at 11:34 AM today, I e-mailed the final paper for Sports Tourism. It was a fun paper but I was glad to be done with it. I ended up writing the paper on The Socio-Cultural and Economic Impacts of Sports Tourism with a special focus on Prague’s chances of hosting a future Olympiad. This [...]

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Follow up on my previous post on the new seven wonders (linked because I haven’t been able to get the related posts widget to work) Newest Wonders  of the World Prompt More Than Wonder from today’s New York Times is an interesting article. “We believe there is a risk that these sites will become tourist [...]

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…and I must admit I agree with this backpackers.com post: do we really care? I think the results are interesting but not particularly surprising. I’ve been to one (Rome) , and while I have an interest in the others, this designation isn’t going to make me any more or less likely to visit.  I’m not [...]

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Officially became a ‘wrap’ this morning when my backpack arrived. Glad that it arrived in one piece, it didn’t have any exciting adventures. Just seemed to want a longer layover at LHR since it arrived at JFK on BA 113 on Tuesday. I still think what happened was it made it to London on the [...]

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