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23听AUGUST听2008
The situation in Georgia in the last couple of weeks has brought on a setback in the development of its tourism.听 The former Soviet republic has been trying to boost visitors, enticing them with its snow peaked mountains and un-crowded ski pistes, unspoilt villages, ancient cathedrals and unique cuisine and wine.
Sandi Toksvig is joined by two visitors to Georgia, John Bell, travel writer and former producer of travel programmes and Peter Nasmyth writer, photographer and publisher. They discuss the appeal of the country and the future of its tourism.
LUCY HAWKING
Lucy Hawking talks about her trips with her father, Professor Stephen Hawking, her own travels the world as a populariser of science and shares her thoughts of how space travel and the universe are seen by young people around the globe; she also describes her experience of floating in zero gravity.
Presented by Sandi Toksvig
Photo:听听- photograph by Ilan Molcho 漏
This week鈥檚 guests:
Peter Nasmyth is a writer, photographer and publisher who owns a bookshop in Tbilisi.听 Peter has written a few books on Georgia including a guide book Walking in the Caucasus: Georgia and a travel book Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry. Peter was a journalist covering Russia in the days of the Soviet break up and a friend suggested he visit Georgia, which he did first in 1988 and fell in love with the scenery particularly the mountains where he loves to walk. Peter owns a bookshop in Tbilisi and has just started a publishing company in Georgia.
Georgia: In the Mountains of Poetry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN-10: 0415396697
ISBN-13: 978-0415396691
Walking in the Caucasus: Georgia
Publisher: I B Tauris & Co Ltd
ISBN-10: 1845112067
ISBN-13: 978-1845112066
John Bell is a former producer of Radio 4鈥檚 Breakaway, Travelogue on Channel 4. He then became a travel writer and teacher, working in Palestine, Bosnia, Mozambique educating countries in the ways of tourism under the auspices of the , 鈥a specialized agency of the United 鈥嶯ations and a 鈥巊lobal forum for tourism policy issues and a practical source of tourism know-how鈥.鈥
John went to Georgia for the first time eighteen months ago to share advice on the marketing of their tourism. His first trip was to Tbilisi where he was introduced to the听 accommodation. Since then he has travelled to Rustavi, near the border with Azerbaijan, then to the Caucasus with South Ossetia and on to Batumi in the province of Ajaria on the south west coast near the Turkish border.听
18/II Melikishvili Street, Tbilisi 0179, Georgia
Tel: +995 95 15 88 69
(FCO)
Travel Advice Notices aim to ensure that British travellers are well prepared
is the daughter of Stephen Hawking, the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. Lucy has travelled all over the world promoting the popularisation of science. Her children鈥檚 book George鈥檚 Secret Key to the Universe, written with her father, explains many of the features of astrophysics.
Lucy鈥檚 father has recently announced that he will be going on one of Richard Branson鈥檚 shots into suborbital space. Like him, Lucy has experienced zero gravity on parabolic aeroplane flights.
Lucy and Stephen Hawking
Publisher: Corgi Childrens
ISBN-10: 055255958X听
ISBN-13: 978-0552559584The 大象传媒 cannot be held responsible for
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