hoy empezamos una aventura sin igual. hace un tiempo escribi mi primer libro mas alla de los viajes experiencias emocionales, hoy estoy escribiendo el segundo y hare reseñas de libros importantes
I was thinking of doing a review but… This news is important and what I want is a restart for the new year 2024.
This restart is so that you and I can start this year with all the possibilities, with the development of creativity and that a common dream and purposes can be fulfilled.
I am realizing all the possibilities and when I started I didn’t think I would be clear about it.
I think I’ll start first by saying that you liked the idea of creating a creativity course and I’ll do that. I saw that there is a demand and that you like the idea of developing creativity, so I am going to start working on the idea of creating a course on Udemy to study a lot and create this first course (I am excited because I had always wanted to teach and even more so when my spirituality and my creativity are almost merging)
The other is that I will start with a course on how to work with your shadows (it is necessary to know yourself) and I will also be talking about it during 2024.
I will also be doing courses on alternative therapies such as Bach flowers and also reading letters and if you like the idea I will be developing all this during 2024 (and as I said before. Creativity and spirituality for me are twinned and close).
(At least I have placed it on my vision board) and also promote my store on Patreon, the Patreon (for those who are interested in being patrons of my content) and my books that are on Patreon, authors editors and joyread.
And I join Best novel (a novel app and I will be putting my recent novel Pascal there)
I will also be posting my book new beginnings and true loves (these books are part of the war saga. I will be talking a lot about the saga and it excites me because it is a world where everything has the aesthetics of the second world war, that is, retrofuturistic.) right where I just told you.
In addition to the reviews and books I will be reading and if possible join a book club, great!
So I will start doing all this from this month since 2024. Wish me luck!
Virtual reality helps maintain tourist interest in the destination in the context of COVID-19, according to several experts in the webinar on «Virtual Reality for the promotion of tourism», organized by the Network of Smart Tourist Destinations.
Virtual reality is a technology that allows tourists a sensory immersion in a real environment or not, which has been generated artificially and which we can access thanks to special glasses. This technology can also allow the tourist to be the protagonist of that reality.
«This technology breaks down two barriers: time and space, which in the current situation is very useful for promoting tourist destinations and resources,» says Miguel Ángel Martínez, Marketing Director of Yerba Buena VR.
Aware of the opportunities offered by virtual reality for the promotion of tourism, destinations such as Madrid and the Diputación de Granada have opted for this technology that helps generate interest in visiting potential tourists, and is very useful in distant markets, especially in Asians, who are more familiar with new technologies.
Virtual reality in tourist offices
The director of the Tourist Board of the Granada Provincial Council, Francisco Maldonado, explained in the webinar that they are working so that the Tourist offices of the province of Granada have virtual reality content with which to improve the attention and experience of visitors , as well as increasing the desire to visit other tourist resources in the province.
To do this, Maldonado explained that they are going to generate immersive experiences along the Verde River, virtual tours of the beaches of Granada and the Alhambra, as well as Sierra Nevada, the Alpujarras and the Geopark, to which they will add some popular festivals such as processions of Holy Week, pilgrimages or Moors and Christians.
A technology that builds loyalty
For his part, the Director of Graphic and Audiovisual Identity of Madrid Destino, Luis Medina, highlighted that Madrid has been working with this technology for some time, since it has been shown that it is an attraction for tourists, who, when viewing this content, feel the need to come to the destination Medina added that «virtual reality creates loyalty for those who want to come, since when they visit the destination they verify that what they have seen was a reality».
For César Urbina, creative director of Iralta VR, «the key to virtual reality in the promotion of tourism is to create content that makes people live immersive experiences within a story, for which it is necessary to create an environment that invites potential tourists to interact ”.
During the webinar, some speakers agreed on the possibility of bringing the tourist experience to the digital world and of generating income with the virtual reality of tourist resources, income that could contribute to maintaining cultural heritage.
I started reading this book and I thought the book would be interesting.
I started reading it and came across a virtual reality book.
I started reading and I realized that I read a lot of technical things about virtual reality and it was very detailed, but the truth was that it was very technical.
I was beginning to think that I was going to find myself talking about digital travel.
But I found it very technical and for the person who likes the technical it is fine. For me yes no.
I was coming out of the book of destinations when I came across this more academic book and I read it with pleasure.
It was a good investment to have read it. Apart from the fact that it is in the best database in Latin America for communication and social sciences (redalyc), the development of the text is excellent.
They explain to you what new age tourism is like (very spiritual and transcendental, like the text I read several years ago about transformational tourism and even the relationship in the book El viaje de egeriaa) was quite close.
Although the key to this book is that there are options to practice spirituality and in this case yoga and meditation experiences are important. (Like the yoga book I read some time ago).
They also explain how to develop spiritual experiences (such as group yoga sessions, healthy cooking, and meditation that reminded me of Elizabeth Gilbert last year when I read Eat Pray Love)
For developing experiences and because I am at a time where I am looking for more spiritual issues and with my essence I give it a 5.
It is like a hotel that is located on Tierra Bomba Island in Cartagena to practice yoga. (This month we will talk about this hotel) where the important thing is the experience itself and enjoying something more spiritual.
Fascism wreaked havoc in Europe in the 1930s, and when World War II ended in 1945, remnants of far-right parties reappeared on the fringes of the political scene.
In the 1980s, when all that had begun to fall into oblivion, some of those parties began to feed on protest votes when the controversy around immigration broke out, fueled by the sensationalist press in search of easy news.
the traditional right-wing fascist parties have chosen to moderate their message and the profile of their sympathizers and profess a «sweetened fascism». What were once purely fascist parties are now right-wing populist parties whose adherents constitute a diverse flock that ranges from people of fascist ideology to racists, xenophobes and alienated working-class whites.
They are now expressed in terms of nation, tradition, sovereignty, and community, instead of eugenics, extermination, and homeland. Third, these parties deliberately try to reduce the differences that separate them from the traditional democratic parties by toning down their speech, while the traditional parties appropriate these expressions of great effect for electoral purposes and thus encourage the new language racist slips into moderate speech.
Fueled by the expansion of Europe to the East, which has not contributed to fostering tolerance, the prejudices repressed for decades by the communist regimes have resurfaced and serve as an argument for new and outlandish politicians and parties with racist, xenophobic and intolerant ideologies.
An example of the success of these new strategies in Europe is the promulgation of laws to guarantee tolerance in a continent that previously lavished it.
Another is that the extreme right now has sufficient numerical support and confidence to officially constitute a political group in Europe. The creation in 2007 of the Identity, Tradition, Sovereignty (ITS) Group in the European Parliament allowed the extreme right-wing and racist parties of Austria, Belgium, France and Italy, as well as Bulgaria and Romania–the last two countries to join the the European Union — , joined by an independent MEP expelled from the United Kingdom Independence Party not for his ideas but for being accused of fraud in receiving social benefits.
The fact that among the current 785 MEPs there are more racist politicians than representatives of the 15 million people who live in countries of the European Union who belong to ethnic minorities or are nationals of third countries and who, taken together, would constitute the eighth » country» with the largest population of the 27 countries of the European Union, is indicative of prevailing trends.
The 19 members of the ITS Group include some of Europe’s leading far-right party figures, and despite the rhetoric, their true views are quite apparent.
The leader of the ITS Group is the French MEP Bruno Gollnisch, number two of Jean-Marie Le Pen’s Front National, prosecuted in January 2007 for denying the Holocaust.
Andreas Moelzer was responsible for the success of Jörg Haider’s Liberal Party of Austria (FPÖ), the same Haider who refused to condemn a terrorist attack that killed four Roma.
Frank Vanhecke is the leader of the Flemish Vlaams Belang party, which advocates that immigrants must fully integrate into Western culture or be repatriated.
However, the three are trying to reposition the ITS Group and ensure that it is part of the mainstream of European politics.
An indication of this change of image is that they finally decided to reject the name «Europe of Fatherlands», which evokes Hitler and the Nazis, for their group, despite the fact that they used that name in the newsletter published jointly by the majority of its current members.
The makeover was engineered in the wake of the success of far-right parties in Austria, Denmark, Italy and the Netherlands, where moderating public displays of intolerance has paid dividends at the polls and in terms of acceptability as coalition partners. for traditional parties.
At the European level, two parties have managed to ignore their neo-fascist history and roots to such an extent that they are even part of the more acceptable and less controversial Union for Europe of Nations (UEN) Group in the European Parliament.
The UEN Group is an incoherent hodgepodge of far-right parties and moderate right-wing parties in a marriage of convenience, trading respectability for influence.
Part of the group is what used to be the neo-fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (MSI) party, founded by Giorgio Almirante, former Chief of Staff of the Minister of Propaganda of the Republic of Saló, infamously renamed Alleanza Nazionale, as well as the profoundly homophobic Liga Polskich Rodzin (LPR) or League of Polish Families, the anti-immigration Dansk Folkeparti (Danish People’s Party) and Ireland’s Fianna Fáil.
Europe is a reflection of the good results obtained at the national level. In 2002, Le Pen, who believes the Nazi occupation of France was «essentially beneficial» despite the deaths of 70,000 French Jews in concentration camps, came second in the presidential election.
In the 2007 election, his support fell by almost half, not because of his blunder but because of his success in 2002. The other candidates usurped his rhetoric and his voters, were tough on immigration and crime, though not with their causes, and indicated by their opposition to Turkey’s entry into the European Union that Europe’s future borders would be religious and not geographical. (It talk a lot Diana Uribe in this book and the fascism was the first cause of wwII)
The leader of the Vlaams Belang, Filip Dewinter, proudly announced that his party was Islamophobic, which did not prevent him from almost taking control of Antwerp, Belgium’s second largest city, in 2006, or from increasing his electoral support in the 2007 national elections and won 17 seats, only one less than the Flemish Liberal Party, the leading political force in Belgium.
In Italy, former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was keen to include his country’s far-right and fascist parties in his electoral coalition to try to stay in power. It was hinted that Alessandra Mussolini, granddaughter of Benito Mussolini and founder of the neo-fascist party Azione Sociale, would have a ministerial portfolio.
Mirko Tremaglia, who had proudly fought in the ranks of the Repubblica Sociale Italiana–the Italian version of the Waffen SS–was already a minister. In the end, Berlusconi lost the elections to Romano Prodi by only 26,000 votes, that is, 0.1% of the total.
In Austria, the split in Haider’s Liberal Party seemed to herald its demise, but in the 2006 national elections the two resulting formations won 15% of the vote, while the neo-Nazi Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands won in local elections in Germany. votes at the expense of the ex-communist party Partei des Demokratischen Sozialismus.
The rise of the extreme right is not limited to «old Europe». One of the three parties that make up the current Slovak coalition government is the Slovenská Národná Strana (Slovak National Party), whose leader, Jan Slota, is in favor of expelling the Hungarian minority, which makes up 10% of the population.
The Hungarian Truth and Life Party, chaired by Istvan Csurka, is anti-Semitic and anti-Roma. Still, he is seen as part of the moderate opposition to Hungary’s socialist government, despite helping organize riots in an attempt to topple the democratically elected government. (The same situation like turkey in this date, the rise of nacionalism in turkey is very high)
In Poland, the ruling party, Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc (Law and Justice Party), has since 2005 formed an unofficial coalition with the LPR, which has poisoned the political environment with its Catholic fundamentalism and extreme nationalism.
the infamous Radio Maryja, with its ultra-nationalism, homophobia and anti-Semitic reputation, has become a semi-official herald of the government. (In addition to Ukraine supporting a neo-Nazi army and goverment)
What can Europe’s democratic parties do to start bringing extremists back to the fringes of the political scene, where they belong?
In the first place, all the parties have to impose a principle of restriction on themselves and not play into the hands of the racists by echoing their message in order to obtain electoral benefits in the short term and, secondly, measures must be taken at the level of the European Union.
Although all the Member States of the Union are obliged by their laws to combat racism and xenophobia, in practice the degree of implementation varies considerably from one State to another.
More rigorous and comprehensive anti-racism legislation would be desirable. The real challenge is to ensure that the laws in force are enforced in each country, so that all residents of Europe have the same rights and duties and are not divided by sex, race or nation. In addition, the welfare state that was in Europe until the 90s and 2000s returns. (I will also talk about it later).
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