The International Journal of Building, Urban, Interior and Landscape Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Planning, Thammasat University, Thailand.

I am honored to have been asked to be a peer reviewer for article submissions related to Heritage Interpretation and Eco Tourism by the journal.  This is cool as it will help me keep up to date on what interpreters in these market areas are working on and studying.  I am currently reviewing an article on Interpretive Planning related to Eco Tourism.  Looks really interesting.  If/when it is published I will make a PDF of the article available (with the authors permission) to my InterpNEWS readers.  Cheers, JV

Wow, August Already.  Here's some new JVA news.  Newcastle Universitys Centre for Culture and Heritage Studies in the UK is developing a new suite of Postgraduate e-learning programs in Heritage Management and Tourism.  The program includes 6 modules with each module having 8 units in it.  For the Communication and Interpretation Module, I have been asked to create the Units for "Communication and Interpretation Planning an Programming" and the unit on "Guiding and providing information for visitors".  I have begun working on these Units and hope to have them completed in October.  Each Unit will require about 15 hours of student engagement time.   I'll provide more inforamtion on the total heritage studies program as this is further developed. - jv