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Promoting ASEAN or Southeast Asia

January 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Finally, the leaders of ASEAN tourism have come to their senses and admitted that their promotion of ASEAN as a tourism destination may have been in vain.  I am not suggesting that the hundreds of thousands of dollars and energy spent have been on the Visit ASEAN tourism promotion campaign has been  completely worthless, but perhaps misunderstood.

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Terrorism by Plastic

December 31st, 2008 · No Comments

It wasn’t so many years ago in any American or European grocery store you were given the choice between paper or plastic bags to haul your groceries home in. We’ve learned since that maybe the most sustainable way to shop is to bring your own ‘this is not a plastic bag’ canvas bag to tote your [...]

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21st Century Trends in International Tourism

March 10th, 2008 · 2 Comments

By Peter Semone
Travel and tourism will grow to new heights in the 21st century as it becomes more accessible to a larger cross section of the global population. This will result in commensurate economic opportunities for developed and emerging destinations around the world.  It will also create major challenges, not only in attracting and serving [...]

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