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Welcome to On The Green Track Podcast

In this pod, we look at travel as a life journey: with one common end destination for us all but until then consisting of trillions of destinies and ways to get there. We may visit the same destination but our ways to go there are various. If you are curious and want to understand better the why and the how behind our needs for travel, then join us on this journey and learn how far we can actually go.

 
About our guest

Torbjørn C. “Thor” Pedersen is a Danish traveller, Red Cross Ambassador, explorer, and the founder of the Once Upon a Saga travel project: a journey to visit every country in the world without the use of air travel.

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About the episode

In this episode, we discuss the term ‘mobility,’ which refers to the ability to move or be moved freely and easily. In case you want a more clear definition of the term please check out the first episode in the Green Tracking Series, in which we explain the concept further. For this episode, Thor and I discuss these complexities and the fine border between travelling for holidays and fleeing from a crisis. In the tourism sector, the debate about mobility and the tourism sector’s responsibility within this, are often silenced. Therefore, I hope you will find this interesting in order to think further about how the tourism sector could begin to engage itself more actively and thereby give visitors a choice to help and to become aware of how mobility is defining and shaping everyone’s lives.

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About our guest

C. Michael Hall is a professor at the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), a Visiting Professor in Kalmar (Sweden), and a Guest Professor in Service Management and Service Studies at Lund University (Sweden). His research focuses on tourism, regional development, heritage, food, sustainability, and global environmental change and their connections.

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About the episode

This episode is divided into two parts and is a step further on our Green Track. From starting with talking about concrete tourism and travel experiences together with Thor from the Once Upon A Saga project, we now move to the more theoretical and artistic realm. We discuss based on William Turner’s landscape painting “Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth” (1842) why we travel and how our relationship to nature, which is an important asset when travelling for most, is shaped by cultural discourses, trends and also urbanization, which we during the COVID-19 pandemic are being confronted with and impacted by in various of contradicting ways.

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