Dark Tourism Seminar Reflection

In this seminar, tania and I were elected as leaders. Through a scenario in the ppt, we discussed whether we should participate in dark tourism and the influence of the Internet on it. First of all, I think my leader this time is a little better than the last one because I was quite nervous … Read more

Unit 4 Why Travel: Seminar Reflection 3

Last week, we did a thorough two-day seminar regarding dark tourism during which the seminar leaders guided with a totally unique and extraordinarily effective strategy of revolving the questions around a storyline which gave us very much to discuss and debate, and at length the discussion was quite in-depth. We took Chernobyl as the setting, … Read more

Seminar Reflection 3 :(

In this seminar, we mainly discussed elements a good blog includes. This seminar led by Kitty and Vinci was quite unique from the other ones, the main impact to this was their style. Different than the past few seminars which only had questions on their PPT, this one involved comparison between text or pictures. I … Read more

Dark tourism 🕷️

The first time I’ve ever heard of the word “dark tourism” was when I was preparing for WSC… I never thought travelling to such places around the world had a specific name to them 🕷️.   You could guess the (slight) excitement I had when I heard we’ll be doing a seminar on this. If … Read more

Seminar 2 reflection

In this seminar, we explored different quotes about travel and discussed their meanings. I really enjoyed analyzing these quotes because they made me think about travel in new ways—not just as a fun vacation, but as something deeper that can change how we see the world. There were many controversies around the quote “All roads … Read more

Seminar 6 reflection-Dark tourism

I really enjoyed Tania & Jessie’s approach to a new way of seminar– which is something similar to role-playing.  We get to see different people’s ideas when visiting Chernobyl, a cite of dark tourism, and it’s interesting to find the plot progressing as the seminar continues. It’s interesting how this format made me think more … Read more

Seminar 3 Reflection —— What makes a good blog post

I really like Vinci and Kitty’s approach to this topic, by providing different examples from different aspects to let use share our opinions through compare and contrasting them. This really sparked some debate about which picture is more inspiring, and which title is better.  In this seminar, we first compared different examples of paragraphs, titles, … Read more

Seminar Reflection 3

Recently, we had a seminar discussing the travel advertisement we designed. The seminar was divided into two parts: group discussion and class discussion. Both focused on praising or giving constructive suggestions for the advertisements we created based on our travel blogs. I was impressed by how critical and engaging the participants were in providing amazing … Read more