Monday 21 June, 2021
The Night Walk: from a dangerous migration to a tourist performance.ByJafet Quintero VenegasandAlvaro LopezThe Night Walk is a recreational activity organized by the Hñahñú community of the town of El Alberto, municipality of Ixmiquilpan, state of Hidalgo, Mexico, and is part of the menu of activities that tourists who visit the area can hire. This is a performance that involves several actors that represent the migratory phenomenon of undocumented Mexicans tryi...
This ia an online guided tour of the Riopelle exhibition at the MBAM.https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/riopelle/Registration is mandatory as there is limited space (4 groups of 10 people)Registration is here :https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Srk-IH2BhN6gOdAz4REUK9TUmf8J0xJDKlHztkxNM4/edit?usp=sharing
Tourism RESET will be leading a special track: BI-POC issues in tourism, travel, and mobility. Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BI-POC) have endured racial inequalities, segregation and systemic racism for centuries. Globally, travel and tourism has been overpoweringly White-washed, leaving limited room to highlight the experiences and voices of traditionally marginalized groups, the result lending itself ...
Justice entails concepts of fairness, reasonableness, honesty, and integrity, going beyond the more basic premises of “acceptability” or “lawfulness.” We invite proposals for a special track on animal justice, where we will explore meanings of and means to achieve justice for non-human animal actors within tourism.
Ethical and Equitable Tourism DataBy Evita RobinsonThis keynote covers the intersection of data and tourism. In 2020 NOMADNESS Travel Tribe and Tourism RESET had over 5200 respondents to their survey of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Travelers. The 89-page qualitative and quantitative report methodology is also a case study on how data is more robust when academia and industry work together. The 26,000+ member NOMADNESS community was the bridge to harnessing t...
We are offering time for reflection, processing, and a moment for clarity within a decompression session workshop. These sessions will help folxs make meaning of what they observed and heard in a non-judgmental space. As Probyn (2003) posited, “space informs, limits, and produces subjectivity” and with decompression sessions, conference participants can delineate for themselves the dialogue around race relations and the historical complexities of colonized and White centered narratives. Co...
This ia an online guided tour of the Riopelle exhibition at the MBAM.https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/exhibitions/riopelle/Registration is mandatory as there is limited space (4 groups of 10 people)Registration is here :https://docs.google.com/document/d/15Srk-IH2BhN6gOdAz4REUK9TUmf8J0xJDKlHztkxNM4/edit?usp=sharing