Sustainable Tourism: Video Demo of our Intro to Travel and Tourism Course
Posted on October 27, 2009 - Filed Under Video, Sustainable Tourism, Travel Biz | 1 Comment
Take a look at a demo (with a short piece on sustainable tourism) of our new edition of “Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future,” an interactive course that introduces the Travel and Tourism industry as a serious career path to high school or entry-level college students, people who are about to enter the [...]
Read More..>>Giving Wings to Grandma: An Interview With Joe Sutter, The Father of the Boeing 747
Posted on February 10, 2009 - Filed Under Audio, Tech & Science, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Joseph Sutter- Photo© 2005 Russell Johnson
Airlines come and go. But one airplane, put in service in 1970 by Pan Am and designed and built by Boeing is still flying, still being manufactured and, like Swiss Cheese or a Brooks Brothers suit, still looks the same. It is that ubiquitous, bulbous Cyrano of the skies, [...]
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Joe Sutter, Father of the Boeing 747 [19:53m]: High Definition Video: Learn Travel and Tourism
Posted on December 11, 2008 - Filed Under Video, Sustainable Tourism, Travel Biz | 1 Comment
I wish I could say that I made a living as a blogger, but I do put wine in the flagon by producing projects such as Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future, an interactive introductory course in Travel and Tourism, which we have just released. It is the successor to “World of Many [...]
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Travel and Tourism: Opening Doors for Your Future [7:02m]: Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
Posted on January 21, 2008 - Filed Under Hotels & Resorts, Las Vegas, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Traffic at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (c) Russell Johnson
Feed the Tiger: The Future of Las Vegas
When will it end? Why as our salaries shrink, our expectations dwindle, our house values plummet, our IRAs squeal like piggies being led to slaughter, does that supersize-me oasis of bare buns, aged [...]
Democracy and Debauchery
Posted on December 6, 2007 - Filed Under Audio, Culture, Misc., News, Travel Biz | Leave a Comment
Oh, we Americans are a wild and crazy bunch: toiling hard and productively, spreading democracy by day…partying hard by night. Or is it partying day and night? According to a new report on travel trends, we Yanks are binge drinking, G-string snapping “debaucherists,” longing for the eternal spring break.
This report, put out by the [...]
