Jul
12
Resources for students of tourism
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Internet for travel and tourism is a website created for students of tourism that is really worth exploring. It was created by Philip Rowe for Intute.
By following the tutorial and the links on this website, you can learn the things that every serious student of tourism should know about. The tutorial is written in a clear language, well structured and the links it provides broaden your horizons. I’m sure these resources will help you learn about things that matter in the world of travel and tourism and write better assignments.
Jun
20
There’s nothing like Australia
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Tourism Australia has come up with a new campaign for promoting the country. I suppose you still remember ‘Where the bloody hell are you’ campaign. Compare the new video to it and say which you think works better. And if you’d like to learn more about the campaign, there’s information provided about it here (http://www.media.australia.com/en-au/mediareleases/default_4416.aspx) The press conference video explaining the rationale is to be found here (http://www.media.australia.com/en-au/4444.htm) and the promotional video here (http://www.media.australia.com/en-au/4443.htm). And the new website is here: http://www.nothinglikeaustralia.com/index.htm. Enjoy it.
Jun
20
It’s exams time!
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In times when you study hard, you may want to know more about things that you can do to be less forgetful. Donald Clark has recently had an excellent post about it. So what does he say?
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Basicallly, Clark recommends:
spaced practice, little and often, the regular rehearsal and practice of the knowledge/skill over a period of time to elaborate and allow deep processing to fix long-term memories.
Spaced practice actually means learning over a longer period of time. You should do things like
- reherse regularly what you’ve learnt – you regularly reflect/think about what you’ve learnt and you should do that every day (perhaps before you go to bed)
- take notes while you’re sudying and then reread them a few times, organize them or even rewrite them in a more organized way – this can improve your learning by 20-30%
- blog about your learning experience – those who don’t blog may want to discuss what they learnt with their friends – the best effect can be achieved if you do that throughout the course
- repeat what you learnt during the previous lesson before the next one – you should do this throughout the course
- do your homework regularly, do exercises
- study regularly: little but over a longer period of time works best
Reading about the topics that you’re trying to cover from several sources (different books, articles, reports) is also a helpful strategy. You soon discover what professionals agree about, what they don’t and why not. This adds a new, more realistic dimension to the content you’re trying to learn. Of course, you do that over a longer period of time. Actually this is something you should never stop doing: only the topics change. Later on in life you just go on to read about the topics that you’re interested in or that you need to look into so that you can understand work-related problems better.
Learning is hard work and most of the time a lonely kind of work too. Knowledge on the other hand is what you get. It is a pleasing and satisfying experience. It brings pride in oneself and self-confidence. Knowledge is empowering – it helps us do good.
Jun
16
SpokenWord.org is the place to look for interesting audio files about travel and tourism. Just use their search facility (look for travel or tourism) and you’ll be able to listen to interesting recordings or even download them (only available to registered users).
Thus for example you can listen to Talking Travel: Iceland – more volcano, less stripping or Tourism experts view summer season with cautious optimism as well as lecture videos such as Tourism and National Identity: An Austrian Case Study.
Apr
29
Updating, updating…
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I’ve been working on my website these days. I’d like to update it and make it look better. But I’m not sure I’m moving in the right direction. Can you help please? Just let me know what you think of the new website template. Thanks!
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