BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:7bd18dbb-2855-4537-ad05-557728467ed4.194900@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190114T223850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190114T223850Z LOCATION:Roy Blunt Hall 345 SUMMARY:GGP Seminar: Samantha Bray (Hogenson) M.T.A. - "From Overtourism t o Impact Travel: How Travel is Shaping our World" DESCRIPTION:Samantha Bray is managing director at the Center for Responsib le Travel (CREST)\, providing administrative\, research and consulting su pport for a wide range of sustainable tourism projects. A native of rural Missouri\, she grew up with an appreciation for the charm of small town communities and the unspoiled environment. This\, combined with the oppor tunity to travel internationally and throughout the United States during her childhood\, had a profound impact on Bray's view of global citizenshi p and the power of sense of place. Also a lover of performing and visual arts and their contribution to culture\, she earned a degree in entertain ment management\, with an emphasis in performing arts management\, from M issouri State University.\n\n\nDuring her time at Missouri State\, Bray a lso had the opportunity to become one of the world's first students of ge otourism. She went on to apprentice under Jonathan Tourtellot\, the direc tor of the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations\, and obtain a Master of Tourism Administration from the George Washington Univ ersity School of Business\, with a concentration in sustainable destinati on development. She is a strong advocate for sustaining and enhancing our world’s cultures and environments through travel\, and using tourism as a mechanism for community empowerment. Bray is a trained Climate Reality Leader. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Sa mantha Bray is managing director at the Center for Responsible Travel (CR EST)\, providing administrative\, research and consulting support for a w ide range of sustainable tourism projects. A native of rural Missouri\, s he grew up with an appreciation for the charm of small town communities a nd the unspoiled environment. This\, combined with the opportunity to tra vel internationally and throughout the United States during her childhood \, had a profound impact on&nbsp\;Bray's view of global citizenship and t he power of sense of place. Also a lover of performing and visual arts an d their contribution to culture\,&nbsp\;she earned a degree in entertainm ent management\, with an emphasis in performing arts management\, from Mi ssouri State University.</p>\n<p>During her time at Missouri State\,&nbsp \;Bray also had the opportunity to become one of the world's first studen ts of geotourism. She went on to apprentice under Jonathan Tourtellot\, t he director of the National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destination s\, and obtain a Master of Tourism Administration from the George Washing ton University School of Business\, with a concentration in sustainable d estination development. She is a strong advocate for sustaining and enhan cing our world’s cultures and environments through travel\, and using tou rism as a mechanism for community empowerment.&nbsp\;Bray is a trained Cl imate Reality Leader.</p></body></html> DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20190222T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20190222T153000 SEQUENCE:0 URL:http://www.geosciences@missouristate.edu CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Future Students END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR