Delhi When I first flew into Delhi, it was a wild experience. Three or four long lines of people in dilapidated, entry hall waiting forever on hard concrete floors. My first trip was with a delegation of organizers and many of the women regaled us with stories of coming off of a 14 hour flight …
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Industrial Tourism Ghost Towns: Another Sports Hustle Revealed as Mirage
New Orleans There is no bigger industrial tourism hustle than what we witness with regularity around the hype connected to major international sporting events. The Olympics are grand quadrennial fare with plenty of “bread” for the masses and are quite moving for the athletes, as indicated by NBA and USA center, Tyson Chandler’s comment that …
Organizing through the Shelters in Delhi
Bengaluru The Commonwealth Games are the old British Empire’s continued footprint in the former colonies every several years as athletes’ troop in between the Olympics, and when India hosted the games for the first time in Delhi in the fall of 2010, this was to be a star turn for the city on the world stage. …