January 2011 Blog Posts (4)

Faraway Moses! Mark Twain's Turkish tour guide

When I took a class on the World's Fairs at NYU a few years back, I came across information about this enigmatic man, Faraway Moses.

Faraway Moses was a "Dragoman", defined on Wikipedia as:

"the official title of a person who would function as an…

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Added by Nico Daswani on January 20, 2011 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Using cultural tourism as a tool for development.

As it has been time and again proved that tourism has a multiplier effect in terms of employment and economic growth. However, all this is still limited mainly to the cities. To take the tourism money (and opportunities) outside the cities, we need to look for different kind of tourism.

This…

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Added by Piyush Nangru on January 15, 2011 at 6:30am — No Comments

A Dispatch from Barcelona: the International Conference on Creative Tourism

The InternationalConference on Creative Tourism that was held in Barcelona on December 9 – 10th, 2010, gathered…

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Added by Caroline Couret on January 4, 2011 at 4:00am — 2 Comments

Title art piece

I'm currently working on art pieces, using the medium terraccotta or red clay, which is abundant in my place.

I'm doing a series i call amoeba. Amoeba series is circling about the terms literal definitions to the term attributes(if any), to the non-attribute- meanings, to concocted meanings, to reconstructed terms out of other synonyms (sounding(s), or so, so.

... so i came up with titles of my work such as: amoeba (cell, germs); amoebako (I); kalimoeba (indian…

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Added by cristina "kitty" taniguchi on January 1, 2011 at 2:59am — No Comments