Lecture Title: Periphery to Core: What can we learn about sustainability, innovation and change if we look from the outside in?
How can you be sustainable if your community has no recycling program? How can you innovate if you're still on dial up internet? How can you change the situation if so many of the governance, legal realities are dictated from afar? This presentation will examine what tourism development looks like in the periphery when you don't have all the resources and supports of the core.
Using examples from the far North, the far South, and the near North (Northern BC), Pat will try to bring a refreshing lens to these topics. What are operators or agencies doing that is sustainable, innovative and a catalyst for change. Maybe the periphery has lessons for the core - a culture of integration and cooperation, mixed with an ability to think and act 'outside of the box'.
Date: October 16, 2012
Presentation: 7:00 – 9:00 pm
(with meet and greet - light refreshments will be provided)
Location: Building, 356 – 109
Dr. Pat Maher, Associate Professor
Outdoor Recreation and Tourism Program, UNBC
Dr. Maher comes to us as part of our mandate to offer both our students and our community the opportunity to learn from the experiences and research of our global scholars, by public presentations.
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