Secretary: C. Michael Hall
Tourism Programme
University of Canberra, P.O. Box 1, Belconnen, A.C.T. 2616, Australia
FAX: 61-6-201-5119; E-MAIL: CMJH@COMSERVER.CANBERRA.EDU.AU
This issue of TOURISTinfo coincides with the countdown to the 28th International Geographical Congress at The Hague, Netherlands, August 4-10, 1996. I hope that all full and corresponding members of the Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism will be able to attend. About thirty papers have been accepted for presentation on August 6 and 7 under the auspices of our Study Group. There will also be a business meeting tentatively scheduled for August 7 and a state-of-the-art lecture on August 8 by Dr. Richard Butler (see TOURISTinfo, No. 4). The 6-day field trip on sustainable tourism will follow the Congress from August 10-15 if a sufficient number of people register for it. In addition, one of the full members of our Study Group, Professor Erdmann Gormsen, will be giving a luncheon lecture on "The Impact of Tourism on Coastal Areas" to a general session. I look forward to meeting many of the Study Group members whom up till now I have known only by name or through correspondence.
I am pleased to report that the IGU Executive Committee has given its support to the continued existence of our Study Group until the year 2000. This recommendation will go before the IGU General Assembly in The Hague. The confidence which the Executive Committee has shown in us and in our work is tempered by their expectation "that the group will come up with something very concrete within the next two years. A closed project with very specific aims and goals might be a sensible working basis." Our business meeting will have to give serious attention to this suggestion, as well as to possible locations for a 1997 meeting. Any invitations?
Once again, I am indebted to others for the production and distribution of this newsletter. Professor Jean-Michel Dewailly, despite his new responsibilities as Director of his Institute of Geography, has again agreed to translate the text. Professor Felix Jlg is responsible for the printing and mailing of this issue. Is there someone who is able to assume that responsibility for a future issue, late this year or early next year? Mrs. Marilyn Miller and Ms. Lydia Amara are to be thanked for typing the English and French versions, respectively.
ERRATA: Please note that the entry under "People and Projects" in TOURISTinfo Number 4 which referred to R.S. Lee should have referred to Tej Vir Singh. Sincere apologies are extended to Dr. Singh. A corrected and updated version follows.
TEJ VIR SINGH, Centre for Tourism Research &
Development, A-965/6 Indira Nagar, Lucknow 22
6016, U.P., India. Phone: (0522) 381586.
I have accepted the Chair (India Chapter) for the Asia
Pacific Tourism Association (APTA), with
headquarters in Pusan, South Korea. APTA has put
up a research journal: Journal of Asia Pacific Tourism
Studies (JAPTS). I have been appointed as Associate
Editor. If members are interested in APTA, they can
contact Dr. Sohn Hai Sik, President, APTA, School of
Business Administration, Dong -A University, 840
Hadan-dong, Sha-gu, Pusan, 604 714, Korea, or they
can contact Dr. Singh.
FREDERIC BOUIN, Teaching and research assistant
at the Faculty of Law, Universite de Limoges, and
member of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research
on Environmental Law, Planning, and Urbanism
(C.R.I.D.E.A.U. - C.N.R.S.), 143 rue F. Perrin, 87000
Limoges, France. Phone: (+33) 55 50 54 21;
FAX: (+33) 55 50 57 83.
While teaching urban and environmental law, I am
also working on a doctoral thesis on "Tourism and
environmental law." It will show how tourism can
and ought to incorporate legal preservation of the
environment (from the study of preliminary impacts
to the definition of new forms of protecting the most
vulnerable sites) so as to conceive a sustainable type
of tourism. I made a presentation along these lines at
the World Conference on Sustainable Tourism at
Lanzarote, Canary Islands, April, 1995. I am
interested in any initiatives for the protection of
tourist sites through the use of environmental law
(international charters, interministerial conventions,
innovative national legislation...).
ROBERT KASPAR, M.A., Taborstrasse 67-5, A-
1020 Vienna, Austria. Home phone and FAX: +43-1-
214.09.31; business FAX: +43-1-401.13.20; e-mail:
Robert.Kaspar@wu-wien.ac.at.
I will finish my Ph.D. on the sustainability aspects of
winter sports mega-events this summer, thanks to Dr.
Julg's excellent motivating supervision. I am
investigating ways of publishing the thesis or parts
thereof.
LINDISIZWE M. MAGI, Ph.D., Professor of
Geography and Environmental Studies, University of
Zululand, P/Bag X1001, Kwadlangezwa 3886, South
Africa. Phone: 0351-93911, extension 2515 or 2052
(business); 031-813312 (home); FAX: 0351-93420; e-
mail: lmmagi@pan.uzulu.ac.za.
I am one of the people interested in recreation and
tourism in South Africa, and therefore highly keen to
be associated with the IGU Study Group.
- Vice Rector - Umlazi Extramural Division,
University of Zululand.
-First South African Black to be appointed to serve on
the National Committee for the IGU (1991).
-First South African Black to be awarded a doctoral
degree in Geography by a South African university
(1987): Behavioural Recreation Geography.
-Council Member of the Human Sciences Research
Council.
-Conference Planning Committee Member for 1997
IGU African Regional Conference.
PROF. A. MIOSSEC, Institut de G‚ographie,
Universit‚ de Nantes, Chemin de la Sensive du Tertre,
Nantes Cedex BP 1205, 44036, France.
I am very interested by the activities of your Study
Group as I am the new chairman of the French
commission of the sea (a branch of the French
National Committee on Geography). I have written
a paper (1993) on a topic very close to your activities:
"Tourist Development and Coastal Conservation in
France."
Contributions are invited for a special issue of Leisure Studies on Leisure and Leisure Studies in Japan, which either illustrate some of the current concerns of leisure studies scholars in Japan or deal with broader social, political, environmental or economic aspects of the Japanese leisure economy. Anyone wishing to do so should contact Professor J.T. Coppock, Department of Geography, University of Edinburgh, Drummond Street, Edinburgh EH10 6EB, Scotland by letter, fax (01383 622149) or telephone (0131 447 3443).
The UK is bidding to hold the 2004 I.G.U. Congress
in Britain, based in Glasgow and we are hopping the
there will be wide support for this. We have already
held useful meetings of the various geographical
organisations in the UK and obtained enormous
support form the Glasgow City authorities, as well as
encouragement from the other Local Authorities and
the Scottish Office. Sustainable Tourism is very
much a live issue here at the moment as proposals for
further ski developments which would impinge on our
fragile 'arctic montane' habitats are again in the
public arena so that Glasgow would be an appropriate
setting for continuing debate on these issues. I hope
that members of the Study Group will seek the
support of their representatives to the IGU General
Assembly in voting for the UK to host the IGC in
2004 in Glasgow.
- Professor Bruce Proudfoot
Grateful for the opportunity to travel and to
experience the world and because peace begins with
the individual, I affirm my personal responsibility and
commitment to:
- Journey with an open mind and gentle heart.
- Accept with grace and gratitude the diversity I
encounter.
- Revere and protect the natural environment which
sustains all life.
- Appreciate all cultures I discover.
- Respect and thank my hosts for their welcome.
- Offer my hand in friendship to everyone I meet.
- Support travel services that share these views and
act upon them and,
- By my spirit, words and actions encourage others
to travel the world in peace.
International Institute for Peace through Tourism.
Louis J. D'Amore, president of the International Institute for Peace through Tourism, writes: If all the people employed by the travel and tourism industry lived in one country, that country would rank 10th in population, just behind Japan. The GNP of that country would be $3.5 trillion, second only to the United States. And it would be the world's fastest- growing country in terms of both population and GNP.
The reason for that country's existence would be to serve members of the global family who are visiting other members of the global family -- we are in a kind of "global family reunion" business. Each of these travelers is interested in learning more about the destination being visited, its people, its land, its culture, and its heritage.
The challenge before us is to use this great power of our industry as both an economic and social force, to help bring about greater understanding and mutual respect among members of the global family; to restore health to our environment and life-support systems; and to contribute to sustainable economic development.
...By creatively nurturing and facilitating this act of discovery [by travellers, of common bonds with other members of the global family], the tourism industry has the potential to become the world's first "Peace Industry"; an industry that recognizes, promotes and supports the belief that every traveler is potentially an Ambassador for Peace -- an ambassador for peace within the global family and an ambassador for peace with nature.
- Dr. Alan Lew, ed., Tourism in East & Southeast Asia, Vol. 21, No. 1 of Tourism Recreation Research, 1996. This issue will contain a report on the work of the IGU Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism.
- Alain Miossec, "Tourist Development and Coastal Conservation in France," in P.P. Wong, ed., Tourism vs. Environment: The Case for Coastal Areas, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993, pp. 167-187. This paper explores a wide range of tourism-environment relationships for the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts of France.
- Stephen L.J. Smith, Tourism Analysis: A Handbook, 2nd edition, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England: Longman Group Limited, 1995, 326 pp. The Preface states, "The new edition offers an expanded selection of methods with up-to-date background information and examples."
- Douglas Pearce, Tourism Today: A Geographical Analysis, Second Edition, Burnt Mill, Harlow, Essex, England: Longman Group Limited, 1995, 202 pp. This is a new edition of a book originally published in 1987.
- Adalberto Vallega, The Agenda 21 of Ocean
Geography. The Epistemological Challenge
(preliminary draft),Genoa, Italy: The University of
Genoa, Department Polis, 1996, 91 pp. This
document, whose relevance to the Geography of
Sustainable Tourism (albeit somewhat peripheral) is
demonstrated on page 60, has been circulated to all
IGU Commissions, Study Groups, and National
Committees by the Italian Committee for IGU with
the hope that it will be useful for discussion. It was
prepared as a contribution to the 28th International
Geographical Congress - Land, Sea and Human Effort
- under the sponsorship of the IGU Commission on
Marine Geography. "It provides a view of the
evolution of geography's role within the evolution of
society and designs ocean geography as an inter-
sector component of geography including (i) coastal
geography, (ii) deep-ocean geography and (iii) ocean
regional geography. The conclusion of this paper
points out that:
i. the importance that the ocean is acquiring for policy
and science needs global attention from geographers;
ii.this concern involves all the sectors of geography
because the question is how to build up a
geographical holistic approach to 70 per cent of the
Earth's surface."
The document has potential relevance to the work of
our Study Group for the next four years, since much
of the world's tourism and recreation takes place on
or adjacent to the oceans and depends on the quality
of the oceans for its sustainability. Copies are
available from the author:
Adalberto Vallega, Chairman, Italian Committee for
IGU, c/o Istituto di Scienze Geografiche, Universit…
di Genova, Lungoparco Gropallo 3/6, 16122 Genoa,
Italy. Phone: 39-10-209.5321; FAX: 39-10-209.5347.
- The Centre des Hautes Etudes Touristiques advises
that in its collection "Essais" it has:
- 8 volumes of international bibliographic references
on the theme "Ecotourism, adventure tourism,"
- 6 volumes of international bibliographic references
on the theme "Alternative tourism,"
- 7 volumes of international bibliographic references
on the theme "Tourism and heritage preservation."
Each volume contains 250 new references.
September 16-20, 1996 - The EcoWorld ş96 Congress and Exhibition will take place at the Gallagher Estate Conference and Exhibition Centre, midway between Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa. One of the three themes is The International Symposium on Ecotourism Management. Back-to- back with the EcoWorld ş96 Congress and Exhibition will be the African Travel Market (a destination trade show) as well as an Outdoor Show (featuring ecotourism, adventure and leisure travel). Full details regarding registration, travel and accommodation, exhibition space and paper or poster presentations can be obtained from: EcoWorld ş96 Congress and Exhibition Secretariat, Centre for Wildlife Management, University of Pretoria, 0002, South Africa; Telephone:+27(12)420-2338; +27(12)420- 2569; FAX:+27(12)433-432.
October 3-6, 1996 - Austria Tourism Geography and the German-speaking Working Group for Leisure and Tourism Geography: Urban Tourism and Urban Culture - between Tradition and Innovation and Sustainable Regional Development through Tourism. Near Vienna, Austria. Program excerpts outlined in TOURISTinfo No. 4, p. 7. Registration and detailed program available now from: A. Prof. Dr. Herbert Baumhackl, Institut fr Geographie, Universit„tsstrasse 7, A-1010 Wien, Austria. Telephone:++43 1 40103/2583; FAX: ++43 1 4060445.
October 6-8, 1996 - 1996 TTRA-Canada Conference: Tourism for all Seasons...Using Research to Meet the Challenge of Seasonality. Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The conference will focus on research that reveals the dimension of the seasonality problem. Information available from: Statia Elliot (phone: 204- 945-2402) or Grant Meder (phone: 204-943-1970).
October 21-24, 1996 - Fourth Seminar on Conditions of the Foreign Tourism Development in the Central and Eastern Europe. Szklarska Poreba, Poland. The programme of the seminar provides a presentation of the statements related to the touristic potential of Central and Eastern Europe for the foreign tourism, its utilization and the conditions of the further development. The statements will refer mainly to the works at the map of attractions of the international tourism preparing by the Austrian Institute of East and South - East European Studies. Working language of the Seminar is English - in discussion part all pronouncements will be translated from Polish to English if needed. The cost of seminar participation is US$80. Departure by motor coach from the University of Wroclaw is at 1400 h. on October 21. The following day will be devoted to two seminar sessions and poster presentations. A regional excursion related to the touristic values of Polish and Czech Sudety mountains will take place on October 23. Information is available from: mgr Halina Puchala, Instytut Geograficzny Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego, pl. Uniwersytecki 1, 50-137 Wroclaw, Poland. Telephone: (4871)402-275; FAX: (4871)34351-84; e-mail: Puchala@tur.uni.wrocpl.
Spring, 1998 - Meeting and excursion of the I.G.U. Study Group on the Geography of Sustainable Tourism. Lyon, France. Information available from: Prof. Henri Rougier, "Les Dames Anglaises," 383, Chemin de Champraz, 74400, Chamonix Mont-Blanc, France.
September, 1998 - I.G.U. Regional Conference - The Atlantic, Past, Present and Future. Lisbon Portugal. Information available from: Professor Doctor Carminda Cavaco, Portuguese National Committee for IGU, Department of Geography, Centro de Estudos Geogr ficos, Faculdade de Letras, 1699 Lisboa Codex, Portugal. Telephone: (351) (01) 79 65469/7940218; FAX: (351) (01) 7938690.
August 13-18, 2000 - 29th International Geographical Congress. Seoul, Korea. Information available from: Organizing Committee of the 29th International Geographical Congress: Seoul 2000, Department of Geography, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea. Telephone: +82-2-876-0400; FAX: +82-2- 876-0401; e-mail: igcseoul@krsnucc1.bitnet.