ABSTRACT
Toward the end of my M.A. studies in geography at the University of Oregon, and when I was thinking about transitioning into the Ph.D. program at the same university, I happened to see an advertisement for a Fulbright award for graduate research in several countries, including Singapore. I had spent some time in Hong Kong as an undergraduate and had given lectures as a graduate student on the geographic similarities and differences between Hong Kong and Singapore. So I submitted an application with a proposal to do some kind of comprehensive study of tourism in Singapore. I read everything I could find on Singapore, which was not very much in the pre-Internet days of the early 1980s, managed to get a good interview review and was eventually granted the award.
