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Personal
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Geoffrey Groesbeck
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Latin America cultural tourism consultant
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| Address |
Casilla #3185
Santa Cruz de la Sierra
BOLIVIA
Callejón Velasco No. 1
Colonia Centro
98000 Zacatecas, Zac.
MÉXICO
PO Box #2277
South Hamilton, MA 01982-0277
USA
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+591 (3) 3524819 (Bol.) / +52 (492) 144 3640 (Mex.) / +1 (617) 835 4700 (USA)
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| Email 1 |
info@chiquitania.com
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| Email 2 |
gapg@mit.edu
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| Website 1 |
http://www.chiquitania.com/
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| Website 2 |
http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/529/gallery/
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Plaza 8 de Diciembre, Concepción, Bolivia
Ipswich Street Bridge, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
One could say adventure travel runs in Geoff's family. A descendant of the hardy souls who founded much of New England, eastern Canada and further afield (French Guiana, anyone?), Geoff spent his formative years alternating between Portugal's relentlessly sunny Algarve coast and Massachusetts' occasionally sunny North Shore.
Between incessant trips abroad, Geoff studied Japanese at Harvard and technology transfer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He switched gears after university, walking a fine line between jaunts in global finance and financing global jaunts, before deciding upon the latter as an infinitely preferable vocation.
Geoff now consults with educational and religious institutions as well as NGOs in Latin America, developing and promoting involvement in sustainable development initiatives, in particular through cultural tourism and mobile technologies as catalysts for development.
At present, his activities are focused on Bolivia and Mexico. Geoff is also a visiting professor and executive director of international affairs at Mexico's Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM).
He has written and lectured extensively on Bolivia, especially on the remote and beautiful Chiquitania. Author or co-author of several best-selling travel guides, his works are considered without peer and have been translated into 12 languages. His articles and photographs have appeared in some of the world's best-known magazines, newspapers, and academic journals.
Considered one of the world's leading experts on the Jesuit missions of the Chiquitos, his writings, photography, and award-winning Web site have won international acclaim and governmental recognition.
He is fluent in English and Spanish, less so in Latin...and just barely remembers a few words in Japanese.
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| Areas of specialist knowledge |
GEOGRAPHIC:
* Argentina
* Austria
* Bolivia
* Brazil
* Ecuador
* Mexico: Aguascalientes; Coahuila; Colima; Jalisco; Guanajuato; Nayarit; Nuevo León; Querétaro; San Luis Potosí; Sinaloa; Sonora; Tamaulipas; Veracruz; and Zacatecas
* Panama
* Paraguay
* Portugal
* United States: New England, Texas
* Uruguay
* Vatican City
* Venezuela
THEMATIC:
* Colonial missions of Bolivia, Mexico, Paraguay, and USA;
* cultural tourism (esp. Latin America);
* historical tourism;
* national parks;
* religious tourism;
* sustainable development;
* UNESCO World Heritage Sites
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* Bolivian Oil News
* Bolivian Studies Journal
* Dorling Kindersley
* Emerging Markets Weekly
* Footprint Books
* LatinFinance
* Latin American Law & Business Report
* Latin Trade
* Lonely Planet
* República de Bolivia
* State Street Global Advisors
* STAR Travel Media
* Venture Equity Latin America
* V!va Travel Guides
* Weissmann Travel Reports
* The World Paper
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* Bolivia Handbook (3e, 4e, Footprint)
* El Beni Turístico (1e, Fondo Editorial APAC)
* Lonely Planet Bolivia (3e, 4e)
* Lonely Planet South America on a Shoestring (7e)
* Lonely Planet Venezuela (3e)
* Mexico Eyewitness Travel (2e, Dorling-Kindersley)
* Mexico Handbook (2e, Footprint)
* Mexico & Central America Handbook (17e, Footprint)
* Peru, Bolivia & Ecuador (1e, 2e, Footprint)
* South American Handbook (82e, 83e, 84e, 85e, Footprint)
* The Road Less Travelled (1e, Dorling-Kindersley)
* Top 10 San Antonio & Austin (1e, Dorling-Kindersley)
* Where to Go When: The Americas (1e, Dorling-Kindersley)
* V!va List Latin America (1e)
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| Other relevant published works |
* "A Brief History of the Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos" (Bolivian Studies Journal, Univ. of Illinois Press, 2007)
* "The Long Silence: The Jesuit Missions of Chiquitos After the Extrañamiento" (Bolivian Studies Journal, Univ. of Pittsburgh Press, 2008)
Further information on my Latin American research and works may be found at:
* www.chiquitania.com
* www.footprintbooks.com/about/footprintauthors.cfm?ccs=114&cs=349
* www.internationaltravelwritersalliance.com/members/membprof_southa.html
* www.journalistdirectory.com/prXQzgz/Geoffrey%20A.%20P.-Groesbeck
* www.linkedin.com/in/geoffreygroesbeck
* www.travelwriters.co.uk/journalists.htm#G
* wpu.org.uk
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