The call for abstracts and scholarships for the 2025 National Environment and Recreation Research (NERR) Symposium is open. The 2025 symposium will be held March 30 – April 1, 2025 in stunning Virginia Beach! As in the past, NERR will focus on innovative research and practical applications spanning a breadth of topics within recreation, tourism, and environmental management.
14 October 2024
2025 National Environment and Recreation Research (NERR) Symposium
11 October 2024
01 October 2024
Bureau Of Labor Statistics
Workforce data from Bureau of Labor Statistics.
First a map about the weekly wage for the Leisure/Hospitality in the public local sector
Does the private sector do better?
Doesn't seem so
23 September 2024
NESTVAL 2024 at Westfield State!
First time in my memory, that Westfield State University hosts New England St Lawrence Valley Geographical Society!
For a link on the meeting see Upcoming Meeting – NESTVAL (aag.org).
And register here.
18 September 2024
50 years ago today, in the Presidentials
Some pics from 50 years ago.
Mt. Madison
Back when I had hair
The USDA-FS map
12 September 2024
Future Dystopian Attractions: Benign Masochism in Dark Tourism
Dark Tourism Futures: Thoughts, Ideas, Scenarios
Philip R. Stone & Daniel W.M. Wright
Chapter 21
Robert Bristow, Alina Gross & Ian Jenkins
Future Dystopian Attractions: Benign Masochism in Dark Tourism
Bristow et al., examine the nature and future of ‘fright attractions.’ The chapter offers a critical account of how and why voyeuristic audiences are drawn to a fictional future of death and suffering, while insisting on a sanitised spectacle. Taking a cross-cultural approach, Bristow et al., anticipate the future of ‘fright tourism’ based upon a macabre interest in death, yet one that is disinfected from reality. With case examples from Japan, Mexico, and Romania, the study is grounded in notions of risk, folklore and mythmaking, geopolitics, religiously, and cultural identity. The chapter also suggests that a ‘benign masochism’ (of pain and pleasure) might be inherent in fright tourism and will remain a key issue for future (lighter) dark tourism attractions and tourist experiences.
05 September 2024
Fifty years ago today on the AT
Fifty years ago, we hike the trail between Sugarloaf and Spauling Mountains in Maine, the very last piece of trail to make the whole AT complete that was blazed and cleared on August 14, 1937.
Some pics and maps of the area:
and the LiDAR image