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February 17, 2010
Tracking tourists’views
Amid warm weather and wins, what do tourists think of our city and province now that the games are underway? SFU’s Centre for Tourism Policy and Research is partnering with Tourism B.C. and others for a survey of Olympic visitors. The information gathered, including how much money was spent by Olympic-related visitors in B.C. and whether they’ll return, will provide researchers with a detailed picture of their impressions of B.C. and Vancouver. Peter Williams, centre director says, “The impact of the Olympics will be in putting the images of this place in the minds of visitors.” More than 50 SFU students are helping to conduct thousands of surveys over the next few weeks.
Williams is one of more than 50 SFU experts available to comment on Olympic-related news and story ideas. For a complete list of experts see: http://i.sfu.ca/QwpQiH
Peter Williams, 778.782.3074; 604.922.1954 (h); peter_williams@sfu.ca
Surrey airship takes flight
If you go to the Arts & Culture tent at Surrey’s 2010 Olympic celebration site at Holland Park beginning today (until Feb. 21) you’ll see a piece of Simon Fraser University student-designed technology called the weBLIMP. Described by students of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology as a crowd collaboration flight experiment, the helium remote controlled airship is piloted by the movement of an individual or a crowd within a space. A tiny camera mounted inside the gondola of the blimp allows the operators who are located in another room to remotely view where the blimp is flying. When the operators move left, the blimp flies left; when they move forward, it flies down. See www.siat.sfu.ca/weblimp
Andrew Drinkwater, 604.328.8376 (cell)
Policing election funding
Two SFU political scientists are calling for stricter policing of donations to political election campaigns in B.C. among their recommendations to the B.C. Local Government Elections Task Force. See PDF at http://at.sfu.ca/rjLYsg. Among other recommendations, Kennedy Stewart and Patrick Smith call for strict spending and contribution limits for municipal elections, and a total ban on corporate and union donations. Stewart is on sabbatical (reachable by email) but Smith can elaborate on the pair’s disappointment in the lack of government response to their recommendations.
Patrick Smith, 778.782.3088 (w), 604.291.1544 (h), psmith@sfu.ca
Kennedy Stewart, kennedys@sfu.ca; see http://www.kennedystewart.ca/
Amid warm weather and wins, what do tourists think of our city and province now that the games are underway? SFU’s Centre for Tourism Policy and Research is partnering with Tourism B.C. and others for a survey of Olympic visitors. The information gathered, including how much money was spent by Olympic-related visitors in B.C. and whether they’ll return, will provide researchers with a detailed picture of their impressions of B.C. and Vancouver. Peter Williams, centre director says, “The impact of the Olympics will be in putting the images of this place in the minds of visitors.” More than 50 SFU students are helping to conduct thousands of surveys over the next few weeks.
Williams is one of more than 50 SFU experts available to comment on Olympic-related news and story ideas. For a complete list of experts see: http://i.sfu.ca/QwpQiH
Peter Williams, 778.782.3074; 604.922.1954 (h); peter_williams@sfu.ca
Surrey airship takes flight
If you go to the Arts & Culture tent at Surrey’s 2010 Olympic celebration site at Holland Park beginning today (until Feb. 21) you’ll see a piece of Simon Fraser University student-designed technology called the weBLIMP. Described by students of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology as a crowd collaboration flight experiment, the helium remote controlled airship is piloted by the movement of an individual or a crowd within a space. A tiny camera mounted inside the gondola of the blimp allows the operators who are located in another room to remotely view where the blimp is flying. When the operators move left, the blimp flies left; when they move forward, it flies down. See www.siat.sfu.ca/weblimp
Andrew Drinkwater, 604.328.8376 (cell)
Policing election funding
Two SFU political scientists are calling for stricter policing of donations to political election campaigns in B.C. among their recommendations to the B.C. Local Government Elections Task Force. See PDF at http://at.sfu.ca/rjLYsg. Among other recommendations, Kennedy Stewart and Patrick Smith call for strict spending and contribution limits for municipal elections, and a total ban on corporate and union donations. Stewart is on sabbatical (reachable by email) but Smith can elaborate on the pair’s disappointment in the lack of government response to their recommendations.
Patrick Smith, 778.782.3088 (w), 604.291.1544 (h), psmith@sfu.ca
Kennedy Stewart, kennedys@sfu.ca; see http://www.kennedystewart.ca/