Posts Tagged ‘Conference’
Future of Travel Industry Google Travel and Tourism Conference Keynote by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon
Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on July 29th, 2010
www.globalchange.com Future of the travel industry, leisure travel, tourism, holiday travel and business travel trends. Package holidays and city breaks. Lifestyle and demographic changes older travellers, single travellers. Long haul and short haul, future of airline industry, rail, tour operators and cruise vacations. How travel customers are changing and influenced by social networking sites such as tripadvisor. Why market research can give wrong messages to marketing teams. Future of hotels and self-catering accommodation. Ecotourism, adventure holidays and experiences. Discount travel and budget operators quality and service balanced against price and value. Popular destinations and investment opportunities in the travel industry. Selling travel packages online and through new digital channels such as iphone apps, mobile devices, Twitter campaigns. Conference keynote lecture by Futurist Dr Patrick Dixon, author of 13 books on global trends, for Google client event (travel industry), London December 2010.
Bending Over Backwards To Accommodate The IDiots – Richard Dawkins @ American Atheist Conference (3)
Posted by Admin in Uncategorized on July 15th, 2010
Richard Dawkins videos: • tinyurl.com Bending Over Backwards To Accommodate The IDiots (Ben Stein’s “Expelled”) – Richard Dawkins @ American Atheist (AA) Conference 2009 in Atlanta, Georgia (Part 3) Filmed and edited by Josh Timonen. Subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.comRichard Dawkins is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular science author. He was formerly Professor for Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University. He was voted Britain’s leading public intellectual by readers of Prospect magazine and was named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People” for 2007. Dawkins came to prominence with his 1976 book “The Selfish Gene”, which popularised the gene-centred view of evolution and introduced the term “meme”. He is a prominent critic of creationism and intelligent design. In his 1986 book “The Blind Watchmaker”, he argued against the watchmaker analogy, an argument for the existence of a supernatural creator based upon the complexity of living organisms. Instead, he described evolutionary processes as analogous to a blind watchmaker. He has since written several popular science books, and makes regular television and radio appearances, predominantly discussing these topics. Dawkins is an atheist, secular humanist, sceptic, scientific rationalist, and supporter of the Brights movement. In his 2006 book “The God …