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Welcome to this week's program!
Missed last week's show?
Listen
in as Joseph White, CEO
for the St. Louis
Chapter of the American
Red Cross, talks about
Disaster Response and
the resources and tips
provided at
www.redcrossstl.org.
SEGMENT
2 & 3
BRIGETTE BROWNING
President of the UNITE
HERE
Local 30
Brigette Browning was
born and raised in San
Diego and currently
serves as the President
of UNITE HERE Local 30,
representing
approximately 4,500
hotel, hospitality and
tourism workers in the
San Diego Region. In
2000, Brigette led a
long and bitter contract
fight at the famous
Hotel Del Coronado that
culminated in Local 30s
first ever hotel strike.
After a long saga that
included riot police and
several arrests,
including Brigette
herself, the Hotel Del
workers won an
outstanding contract
that set the standard
for the entire region.
In August 2007, Brigette
was elected by an
overwhelming majority of
union members to be the
next President of UNITE
HERE Local 30. Brigette
currently lives in South
Park with her son
Nathanial and their
Saint
Bernard Hannah.
Listen in as Brigette
Browning and Sandy
Dhuyvetter, Executive
Producer and Host of
TravelTalkRADIO, talk
about fair pay for
employees in the
hospitality industry and
how the setup of modern
hotel chains aren't
conducive to employee
moral, according to
Browning. Brigette will
tell listeners what
UNITE HERE Local 30
believes should be
standard for cleaning a
hotel room and where
some hotel maids are
grossly unpaid and over
worked.
Efforts to reach Doug
Manchester, owner of the
Manchester Grand Hyatt
in San Diego, for a
rebuttal of statements
made by Ms. Browning
during this interview
were unsuccessful. In
all fairness,
TravelTalkMEDIA Staff
welcomes a statement or
interview by Mr.
Manchester.
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What is UNITE HERE?
UNITE (formerly the
Union of Needletrades,
Industrial and Textile
Employees) and HERE
(Hotel Employees and
Restaurant Employees
International Union)
merged on July 8, 2004
forming UNITE HERE. The
union represents more
than 450,000 active
members and more than
400,000 retirees
throughout North
America. UNITE HERE boasts
a diverse membership,
comprised largely of
immigrants and including
high percentages of
African-American,
Latino, and
Asian-American workers.
The majority of UNITE
HERE members are women. Our top priority: Organizing the
unorganized in our
industries is the top
priority for UNITE HERE.
Over 50% of the new
Union's national budget
will go toward
organizing. Current
major organizing
campaigns are underway
at Cintas, Hilton, H&M,
and the gaming industry.
In the past five years,
the two unions have
organized more than
100,000 new members. UNITE HERE
represents workers in
the following major
sectors:
* apparel and textile
manufacturing, apparel
distribution centers,
and apparel retail
* industrial laundries
* hotels
* casinos
* foodservice
* airport concessions
* restaurants
In 2006, the hotel
workers' union (UNITE
HERE) helped launch
INMEX. We still work
closely with UNITE HERE.
INMEX' work with UNITE
HERE allows it to have
access to timely
information about
labor-management
relationships in
properties and cities
across the country. This
allows INMEX to ensure
its clients are booking
their events in
destinations that are
free from labor
disputes.
CLICK HERE
for more info.
SEGMENT
4 & 5
PETER de JONG
President and CEO of the Pacific
Asia
Travel Association (PATA)
PATA has
been privileged
to represent the
travel and
tourism industry
of Asia Pacific
for more than
half a century.
View the
interactive map
to get a sense
of its scale.
Peter de Jong
joins Sandy
Dhuyvetter,
Executive
Producer and
Host of
TravelTalkRADIO
and TV, to
discuss the
rapid growth in
the Pacific Asia
travel market.
According to Mr.
de Jong,
challenges
include
achieving
sustainability
both from
environmental
and human
capital
perspectives.
Find out more
about the
current state
and future
prospects for
travel in the
Pacific Asia
region in this
exclusive
interview with
Peter de Jong,
President and
CEO of Pacific
Asia Travel
Association
What was the
PATA CEO
Challenge 2008?
It was the first
opportunity for
the entire
travel and
tourism industry
in Asia Pacific
to agree to
practical
solutions to
confront climate
change. The CEO
Challenge
successfully
facilitated the
sharing of these
valuable,
practical
initiatives. And
I am delighted
that so many
industry leaders
from all
sectors of
travel and
tourism
accepted the
challenge to
share their
thoughts, ideas
and actions on
climate change.
The event has
definitely
delivered on our
goals, with so
many good ideas,
innovative
programs and
practical
solutions, and,
most
importantly,
opportunities
for
collaborative
action.
- Peter DeJong
SEGMENT
6
VINCENT YIP
Stanford University
Lecturer/
Guide to the Silk Road
Trip
Dr. Yip is a Bay Area management consultant whose career included serving as diplomat to the EU and teaching at Northwestern, USF Business Schools and Stanford Continuing Studies. Beginning in the 1980s, he traveled widely in China on consulting assignments for the UN, World Bank and foreign corporations, and in 1994 he founded a Sino-Malaysian joint venture environmental technology company ECOFEN in Beijing and served as its General Manager.
An unforgettable adventure awaits you this October 818 when The Friends of Dunhuang set forth from Chinas ancient capital, Xian, to explore the spectacular Buddhist grottoes of Mogaoku, and onward to the exotic oases of Xinjiang. The Dunhuang Academy, custodian of the Mogaoku site, will host the trip with special tours of the grottoes and their incomparable murals and sculpturesa treasure-house of art in the Gobi. Visits to caves rarely open to the public. Listen in as tour guide Vincent Yip and Sandy overview of the Friends of Dunhuang's Silk Road exploration - a visit to historical sites in the three major cities of Xi'an, Dunhuang and Urumqi. Ten openings are still available for interested travelers who want to explore what he calls "one of the best kept secrets in China." The cost is $4,500, not including the airfare to China. Click HERE for the itinerary for this five-star, fully escorted tour. You may also contact Dr. Yip at +1 (415) 860-0660 for inquiries or reservations, or email viptour@friendsofdunhuang.org.
An unforgettable adventure awaits you this October 818 when The Friends of Dunhuang set forth from Chinas ancient capital, Xian, to explore the spectacular Buddhist grottoes of Mogaoku, and onward to the exotic oases of Xinjiang. The Dunhuang Academy, custodian of the Mogaoku site, will host the trip with special tours of the grottoes and their incomparable murals and sculpturesa treasure-house of art in the Gobi. Visits to caves rarely open to the public.
Dunhuangs
grottoes have
astounded
visitors for
nearly 17
centuries.
Remarkably
preserved in the
desert
environment of
the Silk Road,
they remain an
inspiration to
all who journey
there. Buddhist
culture, brought
to China by
monks and
pilgrims, was
enshrined at
Dunhuang by
merchants,
officials and
aristocrats who
commissioned
decorated caves
in a nearby
cliff, known as
Mogaoku or
peerless
caves. 492
remain.
The Dunhuang
Academy, keeper
of this World
Heritage Site,
has launched an
ambitious
program to
preserve and
display the
sumptuous wall
paintings and
sculpturesa
treasure house
of art at the
crossroads of
east and
westfor future
generations.
The Friends of
Dunhuangs
International
Advisory Board
is comprised of
academic,
cultural and
business leaders
dedicated to
safeguarding
Dunhuangs
treasures for
future
generations.
They contribute
ideas and
resources to
help the Academy
achieve its
mission,
advising on
exhibition
strategies,
technology
options,
sustainable
tourism, and
other
programming
opportunities.
Click HERE
for more on the
Friends of
Dunhuang.
Prior to joining
Counterpart in 1999, Mr.
LeLaulu was a member of
the United Nations
Reform Team and served
as Secretary of the Task
Force to Re-orient UN
Public Information
Activities. The Reform
Team examined ways to
strengthen
communications and
information operation to
increase global support
for the organization.
Earlier, Mr. LeLaulu was
Chairman of the United
Nations Committee for
the Security and
Independence of the
International Civil
Service and worked on
the release of hostages
and detained people.
A Samoan by birth, he
was prominent in the
series of influential
global conferences and
summits, which defined
the international agenda
006 for the next few decades
in the areas of
environment and
development. The
advances of the
"development continuum"
were used as the basis
for the forward-looking
agreements emerging from
the summit of world
leaders gathered for the
50th Anniversary of the
United Nations, which he
also helped to convene
in 1996.
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Founded in 1965, Counterpart
International is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to
building a just world through
service and partnership.
Counterpart gives people a voice
in their own future through
smart partnerships, offering
options and access to tools for
sustained social, economic and
environmental development.
Since 1993 Counterpart has
built, developed and
strengthened over 10,000
non-governmental organizations
in the former Soviet Union
alone.
Counterpart has worked in more
than 65 countries and currently
have a worldwide staff of 350
and a presence in approximately
37 countries in Africa, Central
Europe, the former Soviet Union,
Asia and the Pacific, Latin
America and the Caribbean.
Counterpart Objectives:
Counterpart is about
empowering individuals,
communities, and the
institutions serving
them.
Sandy welcomes Lelei
Lelaulu back to the
program to talk about
sustainable and
community benefit
tourism. They'll discuss
the inroads that
Counterpart is making in
Africa to train hotels
to guard against
HIV/AIDS and how tourism
can help third world
countries grow and
develop, according to
Mr. Lelaulu. Each year
Counterpart gives $100
million of humanitarian
assistance.
