RECREATION, TOURISM, AND SPORT SPECIALTY GROUP SPONSORED SESSIONS

2004 PHILADELPHIA AAG MEETING

MONDAY, MARCH 15

 

Paper Session:
2102. Constructing Nature for Recreation, Tourism, and Sport
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group, Rural Geography Specialty GroupCultural Ecology Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Monday, 3/15/2004 from 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University
Chair(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University
Participant(s):

  1. Jason A. Byrne - University of Southern California (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Green around the gills - Latino access to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
  2. Lydia Ann Breunig - UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism in Mexico’s Natural Protected Areas: Landscapes of Change and Challenge
  3. Janel M. Curry - Calvin College (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Northern Great Barrier Island, New Zealand: Local Perspectives on Nature and Policy
  4. Velvet Nelson - Kent State University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Representations and Images of Grenada's Tourism
  5. Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Managing for and Interpreting Old-Growth Forest Recreation in Penn's Woods

 

Paper Session:
2230. Mountain Tourism: Environment, Economy, Culture and Society
(Sponsored by Mountain Geography Specialty Group, Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Monday, 3/15/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Sanjay K Nepal - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH
Chair(s):

·  Sanjay K Nepal - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH
Participant(s):

  1. Sanjay K Nepal - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH (Introduction)
  2. Alison M. Gill - Simon Fraser (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: A stakeholder approach to examining corporate-community relations in mountain resorts
  3. Keely B. Maxwell - Yale Universtiy (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Rural Communities along the Inca Trail: Strategies and Struggles over Tourism Benefits and Impacts
  4. Gyan Nyaupane - (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Understanding Socioeconomic Impacts of Mountain Tourism: The Case of Annapurna, Nepal and Southwestern Yunnan, China
  5. Sanjay K Nepal - UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Mountain Tourism: Toward A Conceptual Framework

 

 

Paper Session:
2228. Retirement Community or Gray Ghetto? Dynamics and implications of elder residential concentration II
(Sponsored by Canadian Studies Specialty Group, Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Monday, 3/15/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Susan Lucas - University of Connecticut
Chair(s):

·  David Truly - Central Connecticut State
Participant(s):

  1. William Horne - York University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: A Home Away From Home: Independent Living Choices For The Elderly
  2. William B. Kory - University of Pittsburgh (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: A Retirement Community in a Western Pennsylvania Town
  3. David Truly - Central Connecticut State (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: International Retirement Migration: Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Latitudes
  4. Martine Freedman - Wilfrid Laurier University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Retirement housing in Geneva: a case of residential segregation ?
  5. Rita Schneider-Sliwa - University of Basel (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Housing for the Elderly - The Case of Basel, Switzerland

 

Panel Session:
2529. Author Meets Audience/Critics: Harold Marcuse - Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Monday, 3/15/2004 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
Chair(s):

·  Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
Participant(s):

  1. Harold Marcuse - University Of California (Introduction)
  2. Kenneth E. Foote - University of Colorado (Discussant)
  3. Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado (Discussant)

 

TUESDAY, MARCH 16

Panel Session:
3129. Applied Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Geography
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/16/2004 from 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University
Chair(s):

·  Geoffrey Wall - University of Waterloo
Participant(s):

  1. Barbara Carmichael - Wilfrid Laurier (Panelist)
  2. Alison M. Gill - Simon Fraser (Panelist)
  3. Wesley S. Roehl - Temple University (Panelist)
  4. Dallen J. Timothy - Arizona (Panelist)

Paper Session:
3229. Heritage Management and Tourism: Revisiting Sites of Horror and Human Tragedy
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/16/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
Chair(s):

·  Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado
Participant(s):

  1. Mara Cohen Ioannides - Southwest Missouri State University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Global Jewish Tourism: Pilgrimages and Remembrance
  2. Kenneth E. Foote - University of Colorado (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Shadowed Ground Revisited: Recent Traumas, Changing Memories, Continuing Tensions.
  3. Christopher Koziol - Colorado State University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Resources of Ambivalence: Local Economic Development and the Memorialization of Past Oppressions on the Colorado Plains
  4. Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Winds of Change at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp Memorial
  5. Harold Marcuse - University Of California (Discussant)

 

Paper Session:
3203. Recreation, Tourism, and Sport on the Coast
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group, Coastal and Marine Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/16/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University

·  Diane P. Horn - Birkbeck College, University of London
Chair(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University

·  Diane P. Horn - Birkbeck College, University of London
Participant(s):

  1. Kobi Cohen-Hattab - Bar-Ilan University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: The Decline of Israel’s Mediterranean Resorts:Lifecycle Changes Versus National Tourism Master Planning
  2. Lisle S. Mitchell - University Of South Carolina (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Seventy-Five Years of Recreation, Tourism and Sport Geography
  3. Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre - University Of Waikato (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Stealth on stilts: ecotourism escapes to the Tuamotu atolls of French Polynesia.
  4. Christian Patrick Heidkamp - University of Connecticut (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Baja California’s La Escalera Nautica Project; Regional Development and the Environment
  5. Klaus J. Meyer-Arendt - University of West FLorida (Discussant)

 

3510. Teaching Tourism in the 21st Century
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Tuesday, 3/16/2004 from 3:00 p.m. - 4:40 p.m. Organizer(s):

·  Amanda Rees - University Of Wyoming
Chair(s):

·  Amanda Rees - University Of Wyoming
Participant(s):

  1. Kanning Mark - (Panelist)
  2. Karen Schmelzkopf - Monmouth University (Panelist)
  3. Stacy Kowtko - Spokane Community College (Panelist)

Amanda Rees - University Of Wyoming (Panelist)

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17

 

Paper Session:
4107. Against Type: New Perspectives on Tourism
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/17/2004 from 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Daniel C. Knudsen - Indiana University
Chair(s):

·  Daniel C. Knudsen - Indiana University
Participant(s):

  1. Richard L. Wolfel - Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: History, Nationalism and the Urban Built Environment: A Case Study of the Rebuilding of Munich.
  2. Anne Soper - (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Mauritian Landscapes of Culture and Tourism
  3. Michelle Metro-Roland - INDIANA UNIVERSITY (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: A Nostalgia for Terror: The Memorialization of Communism in the Budapest Landscape
  4. Altynai Shaksybekovna Yespembetova - Indiana University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism as a Reconnection to the Neolithic Past: The Tamgaly Rock Paintings of Kazakhstan
  5. Daniel C. Knudsen - Indiana University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism, Landscape and Meaning: Contrasting the Image of Thy in the Danish and German Mind

 

Panel Session:
4150. Tourism Education in Geography Departments
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/17/2004 from 8:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University
Chair(s):

·  Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University
Participant(s):

  1. Deborah L. Che - Western Michigan University (Panelist)
  2. Dimitri Ioannides - Southwest Missouri State University (Panelist)
  3. Laurence Goss - Salem State College (Panelist)
  4. David Truly - Central Connecticut State (Panelist)
  5. Rudi Hartmann - University of Colorado (Panelist)

 

Paper Session:
4221. New Directions in Caribbean Cultural Geographies: Negotiating Migration, Tourism, and Mobility
(Sponsored by Cultural Geography Specialty Group, Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty GroupLatin America Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/17/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Susan P. Mains - University of the West Indies-Mona
Chair(s):

·  Susan P. Mains - University of the West Indies-Mona
Participant(s):

  1. Soyini Ashby - (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Exploring Migration and Diaspora: Indian Identities in Jamaica
  2. Soyini Ashby - (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Exploring Migration and Diaspora: Indian Identities in Jamaica
  3. Kerryann Branford - University of the West Indies-Mona (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Sustaining Ecotourism: Accommodating Environments in Barbados
  4. Kerryann Branford - University of the West Indies-Mona (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Sustaining Ecotourism: Accommodating Environments in Barbados
  5. Thecla Harry - University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism in Tobago – Directional Change
  6. Thecla Harry - University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica. (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism in Tobago – Directional Change
  7. Lindiwe Ome - The University of The West Indies-Mona (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Recreation and Responsibility: Exploring the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
  8. Lindiwe Ome - The University of The West Indies-Mona (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Recreation and Responsibility: Exploring the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Trinidad
  9. Tamoy Singh - University of the West Indies (Mona) (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Selling Jamaica: Tourism, Nation and the Bob Marley Museum
  10. Tamoy Singh - University of the West Indies (Mona) (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Selling Jamaica: Tourism, Nation and the Bob Marley Museum

 

 

Paper Session:
4250. Tourism Planning for Sustainable Economic Development
(Sponsored by Recreation, Tourism and Sport Specialty Group, Regional Development and Planning Specialty Group)

    is scheduled on Wednesday, 3/17/2004 from 10:00 a.m. - 11:40 a.m.

Organizer(s):

·  Dave Lemberg - Western Michigan University
Chair(s):

·  Dave Lemberg - Western Michigan University
Participant(s):

  1. David Butler - University Of Southern Mississippi (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: From the Plantation to the Chateaux: A Comparison of Cross-Atlantic Tourism Patterns
  2. Robert E. Pfister - East Carolina University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Tourism and Economic Renewal: A Tale of Two Villages
  3. Pere A. Salva-Tomas - University de les Iles Balears (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: TOURIST PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: THE AGENDA 21 APPLICATION IN BALEARIC ISLANDS (SPAIN)
  4. Dave Lemberg - Western Michigan University (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Heritage Water Trails: A Planning Model for Sustainable Development
  5. Maharaj Reddy - University Of Exeter (Presenter)
    Abstract Title: Evolving sustainability indicators for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India.
  6. Anne-Marie d'Hauteserre - University Of Waikato (Discussant)