Travel on an Awakening Planet

This webpage comes closest to my pre-retirement academic activities,
which I was gradually pulling away from, until COVID-19 became a global pandemic
I recently completed work on a Special Issue of Tourism Geographies, titled:
Reset: Visions of Travel and Tourism after the Gobal COVID-19 Transformation of 2020
​The issue contains 30 papers that are generally centered on supporting a new normal in travel and tourism that is more aligned with the goals of sustainable development. In particular, are two papers that I co-authored: 
COVID-19 is expanding global consciousness and the sustainability of travel and tourism 
- by Adriana Galvani, Alan A. Lew & Maria Sotelo Perez
 and
Introduction: Visions of travel and tourism after the global COVID-19 transformation of 2020 
- by Alan A. Lew, Joseph M. Cheer, Michael Haywood, Patrick Brouder & Noel B. Salazar  
I am also the primary webmaster for
Tourism Transformed - Travel, Tourism and Hospitality in a COVID-19 World
The following is what this webpage was originally about...

If you are interested in the following topics as they relate to travel and tourism from an academic or scholarly perspective, please contact me.
  1. Nonduality Social Science - How can we approach social science research and writing in a nondualistic manner? Is it even possible?
  2. Global Awakening - Anecdotal evidence seems to indicate that an increasing percentage of the Earth's human population is seeking and experiencing various states of awakening (aka enlightenment and samadhi), and that the planet itself may be shifting into a higher state of consciousness. How can we understand the significance of this for the future of our planet? And how to travel and tourism relate to this shift?
  3. Alternate Realities - Our taken-for-granted physical world reality is one of an infinite possible number of ways to experiencing our lives. Our dream realities and our travel realities are examples of alternate realities that are easily accessible to us (see my 2020 paper below). How can this perspective expand our understanding of human experience and the purpose of life?
  4. New Age Teachings - What do new age teachings tell us about our changing planet? For me, this includes channeled beings and awakened individuals who offer nondualistic alternative cosmologies (as alternatives to mainstream religions and science). 
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