Connor Clark

Connor Clark

Con­nor Clark

Con­nor Clark is a PhD Can­did­ate at Ari­zona State Uni­ver­sity and a Research Asso­ci­ate for ASU’s Cen­ter for Sus­tain­able Tourism.

From con­sult­ing microen­ter­prises in Peru to research­ing tour­ism and con­ser­va­tion issues around west­ern North Amer­ica, Connor’s diverse pro­fes­sion­al exper­i­ences inform his sus­tain­able com­munity devel­op­ment advocacy.

Busting the borderland’s bad rap

August 18, 2021

The Sonora, Mexico landscape at El Aribabi. Picture supplied by author via the El Aribabi Conservation Ranch Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/ElAribabi

I enjoy sup­port­ing the ‘under­dog’ des­tin­a­tions of the world. They are often unique and beau­ti­ful in their own right, yet are under-vis­ited for one reas­on or anoth­er. An example I’ve already writ­ten about for “GT” Travel is the Amer­ic­an Prair­ie Reserve in Montana. Anoth­er place worth vis­it­ing by any­one seek­ing adven­ture is Ran­cho El Aribabi […]

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Little yurt on the prairie

July 21, 2021

Connor and his daughter, Genesis, at an APR yurt that forms part of their Hut-to-Hut System

Have you ever felt good about vis­it­ing a place that was hungry for vis­it­ors but not get­ting the atten­tion it deserved?  Its lack of pop­ular­ity may have been due to the des­tin­a­tion or attrac­tion being new, or out of the way, or maybe it some­how got a bad rap. Whatever the reas­on, it was off […]

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