FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Thursday, Oct. 15, 2009
Contact:
Dave Wellman, Director
of Communications,
304-696-7153
23rd annual
Yeager Symposium Lecture
Series
starts next week at Marshall
University
Theme is ‘Redefining
Tourism: Culture, History
and Nature as Economic
Assets’
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The 23rd annual Yeager Symposium Lecture Series, featuring the theme “Redefining Tourism: Culture, History and Nature as Economic Assets,” will take place Oct. 20, 22 and 28 at Marshall University.
All events will begin at 7 p.m. at the Joan C. Edwards Performing Arts Center on the Huntington campus and are free to the public. This year’s series is in participation with Marshall’s Latin American Studies Program.
“The goal of this theme is to bring awareness to the changing face of tourism and its economic impact on its local community,” said Marshall student Jessica Beres, co-chair of the Yeager Symposium. “Through the three different lectures we hope to define ‘ecotourism’ and how it’s being implemented in Huntington, Appalachia and other parts of the world.”
The first lecture Tuesday, Oct. 20 will feature Dr. Sterling Evans. Evans, the Louise Welsh Chair at the University of Oklahoma, will discuss the history and economic impact of ecotourism.
Thursday, Oct. 22,
the series will feature
Serafin Gomez, Leonor
Marquez and Benito Chica,
who are from Prodetur, an
ecotourism company for El
Salvador. Prodetur’s main
goal is to teach people
about the area’s heritage
while providing economic
benefits to the local
community.
The Harry and Betty Wolfe
Lecture Series will present
the final event on
Wednesday, Oct. 28, which
will focus on ecotourism in
Appalachia and Huntington.
The speakers include Phyllis
Baxter from the Appalachia
Forest Heritage Area and
Audy Perry and Tyson Compton
from the Cabell Huntington
Convention and Visitors
Bureau.
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