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Our video hangouts have a long history. In the past 20 years [|Planeta.com] has engaged in an active dialogue with leaders developing sustainable practices around the world. Today we continue face-to-face and virtual meetings focusing on conscious travel, responsible travel and ecotourism. Since our debut as a gopher site in 1994 Planeta has been an active hub connecting locals and visitors keen on culture and conservation, foreign language and foreign food, international sport and literature.

This page documents the video hangouts in 2016. This page includes the videos, summaries, shownotes and timestamps.

If you're new to the hangouts, start here and for viewers, participants and hosts alike, check out the [|google hangouts tips]

Next Hangout

 * July 1 ** [|Welcome to the Modern Classroom. Recapping #nii2016]

Most Recent Hangouts
Don't not travel -- the whole world is not a red zone. In today's world, be attentive and informed when traveling. Our next #PlanetaTalks #LocalTravelUSA hangout shares tips on the smart use of your smartphone when visiting unfamiliar places.
 * June 1 ([|1230pm Las Vegas, 230pm Minneapolis, 330pm NYC]).** [|Be Safe Out There!!]

Key Words
Cincinnati Zoo - Demotivation - Groundtruth - Hyperlocal - Kids - Kid-Friendly - Saint Paul/Minneapolis - Women

Perception may be different than reality Quantification to the level of granularity

YouTube: []

Google Event Page https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cp1536ad96ta50hto0aafc97jj4


 * Invited Guests**
 * Michael Becker,** [|@GeoSureGlobal]
 * Rainer Jenss **, [|@FamilyTravAssoc]

Questions for the audience: What concerns do you have when traveling to unfamiliar places? Do you rely on different apps when traveling at home or abroad? What online communities exist to share travel experiences and safety information?

Question from Michael Becker: How many audience participants have traveled somewhere which is considered risky only to have discovered they met wonderful people and had a great experience?


 * April 14 ** [|Reframing Sustainable Tourism Hangout]
 * Key Words:** Brazil - Case Studies - Community - Critical Discussion - Framework - Geography - India - Las Vegas - New System State - Pursuit of Sustainable Tourism - Resilience - Resilience Thinking - Social Capital - TAPAS - Threshold - Tipping Point - Whitefish - #TourismMatters - 2017 (iystd)

Questions: Why was the book written? What is in the book? Why not an open-access book? What is the future of sustainable tourism? = ¿Cuál es el futuro del turismo sostenible? What should we make of the 2017 International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development? What would you like to see come out of the IUCN Congress in Hawaii and the CBD COP13 in Cancun? What are your upcoming travels and presentations?

Excerpts

The story of Whitefish, is then very revealing in that it illustrates the changes in relationships between society and the environment. As our awareness, sensitivity, and knowledge of society-environment links grow, we confront fundamental ques- tions about what futures face us and our children. Does the history of Whitefish reveal a community that has sustained itself over the last century? Are choices broader or more constrained than in the past? What would it mean to answer in the affirmative or the negative? Given the dramatic nature of social and economic change that will inevitably come, will Whitefish be sustainable in the future? (p5)

it is unclear how one would measure and assess whether a sustainable tourism initiative was successful and why: interventions often display confusion between inputs and outcomes, and the spatial, temporal and social-organizational scales are often unstated at which interventions are aimed often go unstated as well as not being subject to monitoring. Implementing an intervention might look good for a government program or to an NGO’s donors, but how do we know it worked? For whom did it work? Who benefited? Who did not? Why? Further, a focus on sustainable tourism as small scale businesses or community tourism initiatives ignores both the idea of reducing the negative consequences of all tourism in general and how tourism development integrates into the larger economy of a village or region. In one sense, the goal of sustainable tourism has been to ensure economic stability, particularly at the community level—a goal difficult to achieve in a world of globalized financial institutions and processes. (p9)

As tourism develops in an area, tourists begin to require more and more infrastructure, necessitating the conversion of land from activities such as agriculture to restaurants, lodges and gift shops. What this illustrates is what I call the defining characteristic of tourism: That it fundamentally changes the places where it occurs to meet its own needs. What this means is that either form of tourism as development (economic or social) produces impacts both positive and negative. It is also important to emphasize that tourism produces change (p35)

The outcome of this is the development of a community-owned ecotourism enterprise that follows the principles outlined by the Nanda Devi Biodiversity Conservation and Ecotourism Declaration. The missing component in this case has been policy formulation and governmental actions that support adaptive governance. Instead, the government in general and the Forest Department (in particular) are seen as adversaries and their policies are seen as detrimental to maintaining resilient socio-ecological systems. What this illustrates is that in order for adaptive governance to be an effective tool to promote sustainable tourism (as a resilient socio-ecological system), it must occur at all scales and government policies must be developed to support creative pathways to resilient systems. (p43)

Guest: Glenn Jampol
 * February 22** for a [|#PlanetaTalks Call of the Board focusing on technology and travel]

YouTube @http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAfm7VsnJJs

Wiki http://planeta.wikispaces.com/itb http://planeta.wikispaces.com/cbdcop13 http://planeta.wikispaces.com/iucn2016 http://planeta.wikispaces.com/tapas http://planeta.wikispaces.com/CompassionateKozhikode

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Earlier this year ...

February 11,
[|Responsible Travel Week Hangout with Ecoclub]

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Feb 9
https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/c81emvmjep1pvt7mm7kgn2ilefs

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Jan 31
https://plus.google.com/events/c9njujdkon1ejsdogucth2iovd8

media type="youtube" key="RpiGWkp6bdA" width="560" height="315" <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;">Soundbytes :43 Brook's introduction <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|1:00] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Moises introduction <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|29:00] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Multiple discussions and broaden the knowledge <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|30:10] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Whole universe in the valley <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|30:25] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Why we're working with high school students. Ideas that we cannot even imagine will come from them. <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|31:00] [] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> + <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[][|34:00] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Publishing <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[|34:30] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif;"> Native leaders can take the lead. Don't have to wait for a government sponsored program <span style="color: #167ac6; font-family: Roboto,arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;">[]

Coming Up

 * May 22** Biodiversity Day

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2016 Events
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