Ed Jackiewicz

Prof Ed Jackiewicz

Prof Ed Jackiewicz

Ed Jack­iewicz is Pro­fess­or of Geo­graphy and Envir­on­ment­al Stud­ies at Cali­for­nia State Uni­ver­sity, North­ridge with spe­cial­isa­tions in tour­ism geo­graphy and mobil­it­ies. He is the co-edit­or of Pla­cing Lat­in Amer­ica: Con­tem­por­ary Themes in Geo­graphy (Row­man & Lit­tle­field), now in its Fourth Edition.

He is also an author at The “Good Tour­ism” Blog.

 

Postcard from Vietnam: Guided by young people through Hanoi’s Old Quarter

and November 16, 2023

Postcard from Vietnam: Guided by young people through Hanoi’s Old Quarter. The authors and their guides. Background image by Frida Aguilar Estrada (CC0) via Unsplash. https://unsplash.com/photos/woman-carrying-woven-tray-and-white-pail-while-walking-on-wet-market-PEgu_IdF1BM

Arriv­ing in a new des­tin­a­tion, trav­el­lers often scramble to get their bear­ings. One can read a map, identi­fy key land­marks, get a vant­age from some­place high such as a moun­tain or tall build­ing or, if one is for­tu­nate enough, meet a loc­al who will help them. Ori­ent­ing one­self is most chal­len­ging in large cit­ies, par­tic­u­larly those […]

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