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THE TRAVELOSOPHY NEWSLETTER, May 2008:
05-30-2008Our Immediate, Interconnected, and Grassroots World of Travel
Travelosophy is a multimedia electronic magazine that creates grassroots interconnectivity and dialogue throughout the global travel community.
We promote an enlightened understanding of meaningful travel destinations, their industry partners, and their suppliers.
In this issue...
(a) York, England and its intense sense of presence
(b) Sustaining a grassroots, global dialogue through three recent Travelosophy Talks segments
(c) The Business of Art in Central Florida
(d) The energy of youthful Estonia
(e) A heritage voluntourism experience, with Stephanie Moreland
(f) Québec and the nature of cultural sovereignty
(g) Around the world with world-renowned Dutch ceramist Jeroen Bechtold
(h) Lac Blue Sea: a summer destination that embodies "the genuine good old days"
(i) A Travelosophy Member profile: Tartu City, Estonia
(j) Your travel wardrobe, and other thoughts on the "culture" of clothes
(k) A recommended destination-within-a-destination: York's National Railway Museum
(l) A recommended travel supplier: Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
(m) A recommended traveller-friendly website: The Online Etymological Dictionary
(n) Travel Dreaming: where we are itching to go
(o) Do you have a story for Travelosophy Talks (our Internet Radio service)?
(p) How Travelosophy promotes its members and industry associates
(a) York, England and its intense sense of presence
Strategically located in the heartland of England, York is literally and figuratively a multilayered city; and it is these layers of human civilization that you encounter in this very traveller-friendly city.
READ: York: Where the Yew Trees Grow
(b) Sustaining a grassroots, global dialogue through three recent Travelosophy Talks segments
READ AND LISTEN:
Along the Templar Trail: Brandon Wilson's Journey of Peace
Sports Tourism: The Hampton, Virginia Model
Lyuboslav Ilev: A Bulgarian Free Spirit
(c) The business of art in Central Florida
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, cultural industries worldwide are estimated to account for seven per cent of the world’s gross domestic product. In central Florida's Polk County, they take the business of art seriously.
READ, WATCH, LISTEN: Polk County, Florida: Art and the Common Touch
(d) The energy of youthful Estonia
This preliminary video-article on our recent visit to the Baltic nation of Estonia gives an overview of why this nation has become one of the most traveller-friendly destinations in Northern Europe.
READ, WATCH, and LISTEN: Videomemories of Estonia
(e) A heritage voluntourism experience, with Stephanie Moreland
Heritage travel is one of the most important niche markets in the travel and tourism industry. Increasingly travellers are discovering (or in some cases re-discovering) the joy of being engaged intellectually, aesthetically, and humanistically where "it" actually took place. Well, Stephanie Moreland takes that experience one step further.
READ and LISTEN: A Restoration Project in Altamura, with Stephanie Moreland
(f) Québec and the nature of cultural sovereignty
As a high school teacher for 32 years, I remember frequent discussions with my students about of the importance of achieving independence and a sense of self-determination. Quite understandably, adolescents long for the day when they can be fully independent. However, I also remember that in those dialogues, I felt it my obligation to make them aware of an even higher state of development in the human being; that of interdependence.
READ: Transborder Sensibilities: Québec's Sovereign Sense of Self
(g) Around the world with world-renowned Dutch ceramist Jeroen Bechtold
There are indeed universal themes issues, and absolutes in art; and art also travels well. Jeroen Bechtold's innovative methods and messages are very much the stuff of travel. In this Travelosophy Talks segment, we accompany him to China, Australia, and Alberta.
READ, LISTEN: Jeroen Bechtold: A Dutch Ceramist in China, Australia ... and Red Deer!
(h) Lac Blue Sea: a summer destination that embodies "the genuine good old days"
Memory can serve as a survival skill, even though "going back" can be risky business. When we "revisit" the landscapes of our youth, we may find that time has not been kind to them. Occasionally, however, we may happen on a destination that has preserved the essence of "summertime where the livin' is easy."
READ, WATCH: A Little Bit of Eden They Call Blue Sea
(i) A Travelosophy Member profile: Tartu City, Estonia
You may not have heard of this Hanseatic city, which lies on the banks of the River Emajõgi in Estonia, but it is a sterling example of the traveller-friendly, multidimensional, and timeless city.
VISIT: Tartu City
(j) Your travel wardrobe, and other thoughts on the "culture" of clothes
For the travelsmart consumer, clothing is a critical element in the travel experience. "Looking at" clothing from a cultural viewpoint can also just be fun.
READ and WATCH: Travel Wardrobe: Are We What We Wear?
(k) A recommended destination-within-a-destination: York's National Railway Museum
For many people, trains and train travel are nostalgia in Technicolor. However, with the renewed emphasis on train travel as a low-carbon form of travel, train museums are also historical archives in which are embedded many lessons for the 21st century.
READ, VISIT: The National Railway Museum
(l) A recommended travel supplier: Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas
The "spa" as an alternative health care "facility" has been around since Roman and Greek times, if not before. Usually we associate spas with natural spaces where mineral-rich and naturally heated waters abound. We often associated spas with Europe. And yet for over 200 years Hot Springs, Arkansas has been an area that would rival any European spa town.
VISIT Our Travelosophy Business Member Hot Springs National Park Arkansas
(m) A recommended traveller-friendly website: The Online Etymological Dictionary
Knowledge at our finger tips! Wherever we are in the world. Ah! The Internet. The site calls itself "a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English" and it is the Online Etymology Dictionary. It is a safari into the derivation of words and phrases. (Safari 1890; attested from 1860 as a foreign word, from Swahili, lit. "journey, expedition," from Arabic, lit. "referring to a journey," from safari "journey"; which is attested in Eng. as a foreign word from 1858.)
VISIT: The Online Etymological Dictionary
(n) Travel Dreaming: where we are itching to go
Imagine meandering throughout Italy and staying at monasteries for an average of $30 a day. Imagine the stories!
VISIT: www.monasteriesofitaly.com
(o) Do you have a story for Travelosophy Talks (our Internet Radio service)?
We are always looking for grassroots thematic or issue-oriented stories that will raise the travelling public's awareness of how the travel and tourism industry functions, and its economic impact on human society. To send us a suggestion, click here.
(p) How Travelosophy promotes its members and industry associates
If you have read The Travelosophy Ethos, you will note that we emphasize collaboration and sharing. In the world of travel, there are an infinite number of stories to be told, preserved, and communicated exponentially. Whether it is your story or ours, if it is worth telling it is worth broadcasting to the world.
Travelosophy's Free Member Profile
As part of the new world of electronic travel journalism, we promote consumer advocacy, cultural awareness, and public education through travel. Our “electronic community” consists of travel journalists, other travel media outlets, and a wide variety of travel professionals.
Travelosophy offers this free service because we believe in the principle of the interconnectedness and interdependence of all things; especially in the increasingly diversified and socially conscious world of travel.
To join Travelosophy, click on this link: JOIN
Here you will be able to create a brief profile and even upl
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