With long time friends and collaborators:

Johnston, M.E., Dawson, J., & Maher, P.T. (accepted). Strategic Development Challenges in Marine Tourism in Nunavut. Resources,6(3).

Resources is Open Access and our article is available here.

It’s part of a Special Issue on “Sustainable Tourism and Natural Resource Conservation in the Polar Regions” initiated from the 5th conference of the International Polar Tourism Research Network (IPTRN)

1. Maher, P.T. (2017). Tourism Futures in the Arctic. In K. Latola & H. Savela (Eds.). The Interconnected Arctic. (pp. 213-220). Amsterdam: Springer.
2. Rowsell, B*., & Maher, P.T. (2017). Uniqueness as a Draw for Riding Under the Midnight Sun. In K. Latola & H. Savela (Eds.). The Interconnected Arctic. (pp. 221-229). Amsterdam: Springer.

* Former MA Tourism student whom I supervised at the University of Northern British Columbia.  Now an instructor at Capilano University.

This book is Open Access, under a CC BY 4.0 license.

A flyer can be found here.

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A great cartoon about the tensions within academia.  Passed on by a colleague.

Nice story about the dispersal of tourists in the Arctic. Link here.

Met Daniel Cape of EPIC Smiles https://epicsmiles.org/ at a recent AEE conference in Minneapolis.  Awesome work!

Hearing inspirational keynotes and having some stimulating discussions.  As I presented, regarding COMS placement courses, so much can be done to combine experiential learning and online learning.