I just read an interesting article from Travel Daily News .com (http://www.traveldailynews.com/new.asp?newid=27698&subcategory_id=95) about how films made to promote tourist destinations with be judged, Oscar like, at this years ITB (The worlds biggest tourism exhibition - http://www1.messe-berlin.de/vip8_1/website/MesseBerlin/htdocs/www.fair.itb-berlin.de/index_e.html). The award is called the Golden City Gate Award (Das Goldene Stadttor)…sounds like a strange name to me, but [...]

The CAUTHE 2006 (see Travel Blog #5) finished today (Thursday 9 Feb). Here are some of my impressions:
This has been the 8th CAUTHE that I have been to now and it has really become a time of the year when I get to catch up with academic tourism researchers mainly from Australia, but also from New [...]

I was speaking with a friend the other day who said that she has enough possessions in her life, and that in the future she would prefer to spend her spare money on gathering different travel experiences.  Perhaps, as travel becomes more and more affordable and accessible, and some people become less and less concerned [...]

Guess what you and I are doing? We are sharing a multimedia exchange of tourism information.  This is one element of what is being referred to as “eTourism”.  The University of Surrey is hosting the 5th eTourism Futures Conference in March 2006 (http://www.som.surrey.ac.uk/research/conferences/eTourism06.asp) while the Queen Margeret University College in Edinburgh will be offering the worlds first MBA in [...]

The Travel Show #003 (MP3 - 25.5MB - 27min)
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Whistler…..Canada….skiing holiday…..10 days…..time share apartment….snowboard V ski’s……how much for a jug of beer?…..hot tubs….family fun….hear all about these things and more when you listen to Olga Junek talk about her recent trip from Australia to Whistler, and get her tips on how to [...]

The Travel Show #002 (MP3 - 36MB - 38min)
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In this edition, I speak with Allan McWilliams about how to get the most out of a short stay in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is exciting, busy, cosmopolitan and well organised if you know what to look for. Allan has been there heaps and [...]

In the spirit of sharing our travel experiences, I would like to invite readers/listeners of this site to send in their own recorded travel stories. Here are some ideas that you could base your story on:

Perhaps you just been somewhere really interesting and would like to tell others about it.
You might like to talk about [...]

The Council for Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE) conference takes place from the 6th to the 9th of February 2006.  I’ve (Dr.Martin Fluker) attended this conference for the last 7 years when its been held in other parts of Australia such as Coffs Harbour, Perth, Adelaide, Alice Springs, Brisbane and Mt Bulla.  This [...]

If you are searching for other travel information that will help you “save money, make better travel choices, and travel more comfortable”, check out the Travel Insider:
 http://www.thetravelinsider.info/index.htm
It’s a very informative site, and one that I will be checking out regularly.  I heard that the guy who manages the site is a Kiwi (kia ora mate!) [...]