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Seminar addresses border security, impact on tourism - Cancelled

McALLEN--South Texas College in conjunction with the McAllen Chamber of Commerce will host a three-hour seminar titled “Border Security and its Impact on Tourism”  on Jan. 30, 2006. The seminar will be held from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the STC Technology Center Auditorium located at 3700 West Military Highway in McAllen.

The seminar focuses on a review of U.S. and Mexico relations to give participants and understanding of tourism economics, how tourists react, what special needs tourists have and how the border situation can impact various parts of the industry. The seminar will also present an understanding of the relationship between crime, terrorism, the border and economics, and how all these concepts impact a community and law enforcement’s role.

Featured speaker will be Peter Tarlow, a sociologist specializing in the impact of crime and terrorism on the tourism industry and also in tourism and economic development. Tarlow earned his Ph.D. in sociology from Texas A&M University. He also holds degrees in history, Spanish, Hebrew literatures and psychotherapy.

In 1990, Tarlow introduced one of the nation’s first courses on the Sociology of Tourism, and in 1994 he designed and taught a groundbreaking course on tourism, crime and security. Since 1997, Tarlow has also taught tourism security courses for the International Association of Chiefs of Police.

Tarlow is a member of the Distance Learning faculty at George Washington University in Washington. DC, an adjunct faculty member at Colorado State University, and is an honorary professor at the Universidad de Especialidades Turisticas (Quito, Ecuador) and the Universidad de la Policia Federal (Buenos Aires, Argentina). He lectures at numerous other universities around the world including the United States, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East.

The cost to attend the seminar is $75 per person. For registration information contact Leticia Flores at (956) 872-2778 or (956) 496-8358.
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