Edna Aguiñaga
Occupation: Mexican Nature Conservation Fund
Location: Xalapa (Veracruz), Mexico
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
http://www.fmcn.org
Background: Not much experience but more expectations of how things
should be managed to allow for spaces in cities that allow people
to interact with nature and interact with each other.
Ileana Alcocer
Occupation: Radio broadcaster, Radio Guadalupe
Location: Mexico
City, Mexico
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
http://www.radioguadalupe.com
Background: I'm interested in the environmental education applied
to urban places. I think urban ecotourism is an alterative to
promote the conservation and improvement of natural areas inside
the cities. I host a web radio program about the environment.
Melissa Biggs
Occupation: University doctoral candidate
Location: Austin,
United States
Place of Birth: North Carolina
http://tinyurl.com/7xrbf
Background: PhD student in anthropology at the University of
Texas in Austin. I'm writing my dissertation about the National
Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City.
Yaotzin Botello
Occupation: Reporter
Location: Berlin,
Germany
Place of Birth: Mexico
City
http://yaotzin.blogspot.com
Background: Want to learn the concept then probably share my
comments on the city I'm living in, which has develop great
green spaces within the city.
Gerhard Buttner
Occupation: Geographer
Location: Oaxaca,
Mexico
Place of Birth: Cape
Town, South Africa
http://www.planeta.com/ecotravel/africa/samex.html
Background: Having lived in different CITIES most my life (Cape
Town, London
and now in Oaxaca) yet as a keen visitor to remote nature regions
(including 1 year assisting a rural NGO/community ecotourism
project in Yucatan) the initially contradictory-sounding idea
of Urban Ecotourism is very interesting. Most of my life I spent
in Cape Town (including as tourist guide), which has a unique
Mountain National Park right in the city and various other nature
attractions nearby, and I realized it is in fact a prime example
for potential and existing urban ecotourism.
Carlos Cappelini
Occupation: Tourism planning and management lecturer
Location: Florianópolis, Brazil
Place of Birth: Santo André, Brazil
http://www.girus.com.br
Background: Planning tourism and recreation in urban parks.
Maybe the right way to address my thesis would be Natural Parks
in urban centers, rather than Urban Parks, because the study
object is a park situated 20km far from Florianópolis
city centre - the capital city of Santa Catarina state, which
has a 2 thousand hectare park used for leisure and tourism.
Vernon Chow
Occupation: Village Acres Farm
Location: Rabinal, Baja Verapaz, Guatemala
Place of Birth: Ann Arbor, United States
Background: I lived in Boston for about 6 years, working as
a transportation planner. At the end of that time I also volunteered
for an organic farm about 6 miles outside town. I also worked
with a group called Earthworks which maintained fruit trees
and native plants in urban parks mostly in lower income neighborhoods.
Hilary Dailey
Occupation: Graduate Student studying Destination Management
at The George Washington University.
Location: Penn Yan, United States
Place of Birth: Rochester, United States
Background: I am interested in sustainable tourism development.
Rachel Dodds
Occupation: Sustainable Tourism.Net
Location: London,
UK
Place of Birth: Canada
http://www.sustainabletourism.net
Background: I used to work for an urban ecotourism organization
where I helped to develop and expand its reach internationally
through product development, marketing and partnership development.
Rodrigo Esponda
Occupation: Mexico Tourism Board
Location: New
York, United States
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
http://tinyurl.com/3jdts
Background: Empirical lessons (I worked in FONATUR) and some
work at college (architecture).
Mary Finn
Occupation: Teacher, Conservationist, Consultant
Location: Naperville, Ill
Place of Birth: Richland, Washington, USA
http://www.mefinn.com
Background: Worked for a few years in Ecuador, in environmental
education & conservation, including helping a community-run
ecotourism operation get started up (Santa
Lucía). Prior background includes working/studying
engineering/project management, business, environmental policy,
and green building/indoor air quality issues. Other interests
include use of renewable energy & low-tech alternate technologies.
Carolina Garcia
Occupation: Gijón Visitors and Convention Bureau
Location: Gijón, Spain
Place of Birth: La Coruna, Spain
Background: Gijón Convention Bureau Coordinator
Elliot Helman
Occupation: SF Hotel - Nonprofit Collaborative
Location: San
Francisco, CA (United States) & Lake Malawi (Africa)
Place of Birth: Washington,
DC, United States
Background: I have been working for almost 6 years with local
organization, SF Hotel - Nonprofit Collaborative, an organization
for networking of large urban hotels with local community non
profit organizations to facilitate waste diversion through donation
of discards and support via services in kind. Also former Environmental
Specialist at SF Fairmont Hotel.
Susanna Horn
Occupation: Sustainable Ireland Co-Operative
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Place of Birth: Espoo, Finland
http://www.sustainable.ie
Background: My interest is the holistic approach into it, but
if I had to pick special areas of interest, it would be waste,
communal involvement and making the concept known to a wider
public.
Peter Hutchison
Occupation: Journalist
Location: London,
UK
Place of Birth: Near London, UK
http://www.footprintbooks.com
Background: Occasionally write about sustainable tourism which
is sneaking up on the urban areas.
Fernando Garcia Aguinaco
Occupation: Journalist and photographer specialized in travel.
Location: Mexico
City, Mexico
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
http://namaskara.blogs.com
Background: Usually I relate the term ecotourism to travel away
from Mexico City. But nowadays I found that most of travelers
in big cities are a couple of days travelers. What better than
offer to these citizens near options of real ecotourism?
Ron Mader
Occupation: Communication catalyst
Location: Oaxaca,
Mexico
Place of Birth: Fort
Wayne, Indiana
http://www.planeta.com
Background: Journalist, host of Planeta.com
Antonis Petropoulos
Occupation: Director, ECOCLUB, International Ecotourism Club
Location: Athens,
Greece
Place of Birth: Athens,
Greece
http://www.ecoclub.com
Background: I believe in and wish to encourage Urban Ecotourism
Ana Pimentel
Occupation: Bed and Breakfast
Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Place of Birth: London,
England
http://www.camaecafe.com.br
Background: We work with sustainable project at Rio!
Angus Pratt
Occupation: Web designer and management consultant
Location: White Rock, Canada
Place of Birth: Keith, Scotland
http://review.anguspratt.ca
Background: I spent 10 years promoting and developing ecotourism
in Northern Saskatchewan. As I currently live on the edges of
a large city, I realize that many of the ideas and principles
that I promoted there have application here as well.
Zachary Rabinor
Occupation: Tour Operator
Location: San Diego, United States
Place of Birth: New
York, United States
http://www.journeymexico.com
Background: Always interested in issues of sustainability and
tourism. Do you have any lessons to share? Don't forget
the tourists!
Allan Rhodes Espinoza
Occupation: Ecoturismolatino
Location: Christchurch,
New Zealand
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
http://www.ecoturismolatino.com
Background: I live in Christchurch in New Zealand and also study
a Masters on Parks, Tourism and Recreation Management, for both
reasons maybe I could share my personal experience in the Garden
City.
Mike Robbins
Occupation: The Tourism Company
Location: Toronto and Collingwood, Canada
Place of Birth: Toronto, Canada
http://www.tourismco.com
Background: I have a special interest and expertise in ecotourism
or more sustainable forms of tourism. I have been fighting for
the past 2 years an urban sprawl development in a World Biosphere
Reserve (the Niagara Escarpment) and in an area now being considered
by the government as part of a protected greenbelt around Toronto
and would like to share this experience.
Rosalyn Salters
Occupation: Independent research contractor and dancer
Location: San
Francisco, United States
Place of Birth: Albuquerque, United States
Background: My interest lies in the practical and efficient
applications of all aspects of ecotourism, including that of
urban ecotourism. I want to understand how to harness the full
potential of this industry to meet the demands of modern society.
John Shores
Occupation: Consultant
Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Place of Birth: Washington,
DC, United States
http://www.geocities.com/shores_system
Background: My academic background is in natural resource planning
and conservation, and for the past four decades I have been
working on environmental projects worldwide with a special interest
in biodiversity, conservation finance, and ecotourism.
Antonio Suárez
Occupation: N/A
Location: Mexico
City, Mexico
Place of Birth: Mexico
City, Mexico
Background: I work on urban ecotourism issues our consulting
groups has promoted some urban and suburban parks
Vasilis Tsipidis
Occupation: Tourism planning and management lecturer
Location: Athens,
Greece
Place of Birth: Athens,
Greece
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/vtsipidis/
Background: My thesis revolved around urban ecotourism and nature
appreciation on a Greenspace in Edinburg,
Scotland. A summary of the thesis is uploaded on ECOCLUB.
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