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Elizabeth Becker presented by Johnson & Wales Academic Centennial Speaker Series and Blackstone Valley Tourism Council
Elizabeth Becker, an award-winning author and former writer for the New York Times and Washington Post, joins us this October to explain both the beneficial and hazardous sides of the vast industry of tourism. After five years of research she recently published "Overbooked: The Exploding Business of Travel and Tourism" to rave reviews and acclaim.
Becker is an extensive traveler that has lived and worked in many different countries around the world. With her vast knowledge of tourism, and experience as Senior Foreign Editor at NPR, she recognizes that through proper development, tourism is boosting economies around the world. Unfortunately,it is also causing some areas to crumble. As she explains, these destinations are being "loved to death" by tourists.
Join us on October 22nd to hear Elizabeth Becker share her experiences, and elaborate on some of the lesser known truths within the travel and tourism industry.
www.sustainabletourismlab.com, www.elizabethbecker.com,
www.tourblackstone.com, jwu.edu, www.goprovidence.com
About the Speaker
Elizabeth Becker is an award-winning author and former correspondent of The New York Times. As the International Economics correspondent for the Times, she reported from Europe, Asia, and South America on trade, agriculture, international finance, and the effect that rapid change was having on people both in the U.S. and overseas. Born in a small town in Iowa, Ms. Becker graduated from the University of Washington in Asian studies and began her career as a war correspondent in Cambodia for the Washington Post; she is an expert on modern Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge. She was the Senior Foreign Editor at National Public Radio, overseeing all of the network's foreign bureaus and their reporting. She has won awards from the Robert Kennedy Book Awards, Overseas Press Club, and Dupont-Columbia and was part of the New York Times staff that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for public service. She was a Goldstein fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center, where she began her research on the travel industry. She is the author of three books on Southeast Asia, has lived in Asia and Europe, and travels extensively. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband and is the mother of two grown children.
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LocationSchneider Auditorium (View)
261 Pine Street
Providence, RI 02903
United States
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