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		<title>Dogs, Tourism and Traditions</title>
		<link>http://www.xolaconsulting.com/blog/2011/04/dogs-tourism-and-traditions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:47:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog examines the ethics of culling sled-dogs used for tourism purposes.  Recently, a tour operator in British Columbia, Canada was accused of inhumanely euthanizing 50 sled dogs, which were used in tourism activities. The basic chain of events was this: after the winter Olympics, tourism in British Columbia decreased. Outdoor Adventures at Whistler (OAW) took [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Tips for Facebook Pages for Adventure Tourism Destinations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 15:18:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clearly, Facebook has people’s attention. Consider this: According to Alex Trimp, 1 in every 13 people in the world is on Facebook; 71.2% of the U.S. web audience is on Facebook; 30% of Facebook is older than 35; In the U.S., Facebook drives more traffic to websites than Google. People of all ages and all [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ecosystem Services: Help for Building the Financial Case for Adventure Tourism</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 20:20:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Globally, ecosystems’ assets &#8211; crucial to adventure tourism markets &#8211; are poorly understood, monitored inconsistently (if at all) and facing rapid degradation.  Adventure destinations and tour operators often experience the effects of this resource collapse first-hand, becoming advocates for change in their home regions.  One of the crucial challenges they face in this process, however, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rural Culture and Adventure Tourism – How Adventure Races Can Coalesce Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 20:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adventure racing has become increasingly popular since the UK hosted a two-day marathon, the Karrimor International Mountain Marathon, in 1968. Races that involve multiple disciplines, navigation, and the personal stamina to travel through rugged terrain for many hours to many days have been occurring, officially and not, throughout history. In many ways, the concepts and basic rules [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventure Travel and Rural Economic Development in the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:25:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[While Senate partisanship continued to stall a Bill that would create a $30 billion lending program and $12 billion in tax cuts for small businesses in the US, there is still good news for rural small businesses in both state and national programs. The Rural Microentrepreneurship Assistance Program (RMAP), launched in June 2010 under the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media and Destination Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 03:27:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last ten years the travel industry has witnessed how the Internet has revolutionized business practices. Now, the majority of travel-related business transactions occur over the Internet, reducing the demand for offline information resources and travel agents substantially. Travelers use online resources to learn about travel destinations, service providers, and pricing options to inform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2009 Trends In Adventure Offerings</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:06:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently conducted an analysis of some top adventure travel companies as rated by National Geographic ADVENTURE magazine. Our purpose was to spot important trends in adventure company offerings for 2009. Trends Overview In terms of the types of trips, family-oriented adventures and custom and/or private trips are clearly growing quickly. In addition, there seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon Emissions and Adventure Travel</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 01:35:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s not uncommon for people to question the utility of adventure tourism as a means of encouraging conservation, when it so often involves air travel, something we all know generates a significant amount of carbon emissions.  In this blog, we review a recent study entitled Carbon Footprint of Nations: A Global, Trade-Linked Analysis (Environmental Science [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adventure Tourism Challenges and Potential in Sardinia</title>
		<link>http://www.xolaconsulting.com/blog/2009/07/adventure-tourism-challenges-and-potential-in-sardinia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:12:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sardinia, the Italian island south of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea, is an adventure traveler&#8217;s paradise: rock climbing over turquoise waters, the ancient granite mountain top of Gennargentu covered in snow and mist, well-defined treks across the island, and a mysterious prehistoric past defined by 6000 year old stone temples.  I recently returned from a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Norway Takes Mountain Tourism Businesses On Tour</title>
		<link>http://www.xolaconsulting.com/blog/2009/06/norway-takes-mountain-tourism-businesses-on-tour/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Norwegians decide to do something, they really go after it.   Take, for example, the Norwegian approach to nature and adventure tourism development.  As part of a national “business cluster” development program, businesses in Norway’s Mountain Cluster have been traveling the world taking in some of the best in mountain tourism. They’ve been to Austria, [...]]]></description>
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