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Globalisation...sport

A Casualty of the Financial Crisis: Sports Sponsorships - TIME

Globalisation - McDonald's Storefronts

Flickr: The McDonald's Storefronts Pool

Culture and Globalisation

Cultures On The Edge : Home Page

Globaliastion at its finest!

Globalisation at its finest!!





BBC NEWS | Africa | Sierra Leone ode to Man Utd win

More sites on Antarctica

Cool Antarctica

British Antarctic Survey

Globalisation & Culture

These websites are examining aspects of the Maasai culture.

The Maasai people of East Africa live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania along the Great Rift Valley on semi-arid and arid lands. The Maasai occupy a total land area of 160,000 square kilometers with a population of approximately one half million people.

The Maasai Association

Maasai Culture

Maasai Environmental Resource Coalition

The African Maasai Tribes

The Maasai Language Project

The Maasai, Tourism and Kenyan Culture

Maasai: Culture, Colonialism and Change

Tourism in Antarctica

These are all travel companies offereing exotic holidays in Antarctica...

Antarctic Horizons (Sydney): www.antarctichorizons.com.au

Aurora Expeditions (Sydney): www.auroraexpeditions.com.au

Blizzard Expeditions (Hobart): www.blizzardexpeditions.com

Croydon Travel (Croydon): www.antarcticaflights.com.au

Human Impacts on Antarctica...read about them here.

Ecotourism in Kenya

This site has case study examples of ecotourism schemes operating in Kenya.

Click here to read about them.

Tourism

Click here to find the Wikipedia definitions of Ecotourism.




The International Ecotourism Society




An Ecotourism factsheet from TIES...click here.

GLOBALISATION PODCAST

Is The World Really Shrinking?

Professor Doreen Massey delivers the first Open University Radio Lecture.

The globalisation gurus tell us the earth is "shrinking", and that our world is now "flat". They say that distances are reducing, places are amalgamating, local culture is homogenising and geology is irrelevant.

Click here.

Global impact of Asia's pollution

Asia's pollution...read about it here.

Tourism in Kenya

Tourism Kenya

The official Kenya destination website

Sustainable tourism in Kenya

Eco Tourism Kenya - Promoting Responsible and Sustainable Tourism

Investigating the Impact of Tourism in Kenya

Measures of Development

GDP Per Capita
Energy Consumption (per capita)
Human Development Index
KOF Index of Social Globalisation

Globalisation

GLOBALISATION: KEY FACTS...click here
GLOBALISATION SHAKES THE WORLD...click here.
GLOBALIZATION, GOVERNANCE, AND POVERTY (article from Earth trends website)...click here

Other Essential sites for this option area:

IMF
World Bank
World Trade Organization
UNCTAD
International Labor Organization
Bank for International Settlements
Global Economic Governance Programme, Oxford University
OECD
UN Development Programme

GLOBALIZATION ISSUES:

What is globalization?
How does globalization affect women?

Does globalization cause poverty?

Why are so many people opposed to globalization?
Does globalization diminish cultural diversity?
Can globalization be controlled?