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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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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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It’s scary, but I think I agree with George W. on something. Apparently on a 2002 visit to Berlin he said the following: “The history of our time is written in the life of Berlin.” Somewhat frightening that I don’t think I could have said it better myself. Today in class we had a discussion [...]

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create your own visited country map or check our Venice travel guide I think I’ve travelled a lot, but then I look at that map and am somewhat unimpressed. Far too much grey space.I could cheat and list the two countries I’ll visit before going home, but Europe is so squished that it’s hard to [...]

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“We hold in common the belief that it is the obligation of historic sites to assist the public in drawing connections between the history of our site and its contemporary implications. We view stimulating dialogue on pressing social issues and promoting humanitarian and democratic values as a primary function. As a member of the Coalition; [...]

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