Claude-Jean Harel
- Industry: Tourism
- Occupation: Applied Business Anthropologist
- Location: Regina 14,000BC-2008AD : Saskatchewan Plains : Canada
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About Me
Claude-Jean Harel operates The Great Excursions Company, a Regina-based boutique travel and tourism industry development company which stages "behind the scenes" experiences using a variety of techniques. He brings to tourism 25 years of broadcast media experience in the fields of culture, heritage and science, generating national and international attention for the distinctive qualities of the North American Plains region. Claude-Jean not only crafts tourism products as reportages intended to be lived by guests, he is also a regular contributor to CBC Radio and Television programs. Claude-Jean's work has won numerous awards including: the Canadian Ethnic Journalists' and Writers' Club award. He is a former Commonwealth Relations Trust bursar. His work was nominated for a UNESCO Award; and in 2004, he was admitted to the degree of Master of Arts in Archaeology and Heritage with Distinction at the University of Leicester in the United Kingdom. Claude-Jean is currently Associate Editor of the Canadian Tourism Commission's TOURISM family of publications.
Interests
- Cultural resources management
- agri-tourism
- heritage
- architecture
- dwellings
- shelters
- urban planning
- interpretation
- tourism
- thanatourism
- dark tourism
- belief systems
- history
- geography
- journalism
- agriculture
- range management
- pastures
- native prairie
- grasslands
- cowboy culture
- rodeos
- powwows
- tribalism
- First Nations
- Native Americans
- nomadism
- mobility
- archaeology
- public archaeology
- anthropology
- ethnography
- ethnology
- cognition
- human adaptation
- landscapes
- architecture
- placemaking
- public spaces
- railway towns
- perception
- sustainable development
- communities
