Digital Technologies in Education

JITT, Special Issue on Mobile Systems for Tourism

Information Technology & Tourism, Special Issue on Mobile Systems for Tourism, guest editors: Lorenzo Cantoni & María Teresa Linaza Saldaña. Now available the CFP:

Communication and Technology

be prepared...
Cantoni, Lorenzo / Danowski, James A. (Eds.). (forth.). Communication and Technology, Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton

Listening and silence in communication: reflections on two texts

Cantoni L., Tardini S. (2014) Listening and silence in communication: reflections on two texts. In Giovanni Gobber & Andrea Rocci (eds), Language, reason and education. Studies in honor of Eddo Rigotti, Bern et al.: Peter Lang,. Peter Lang, 7-22

How to do things with websites: Reconsidering Austin's perlocutionary act in online communication

Stefano Tardini / Asta Adukaite / Lorenzo CantoniHow to do things with websites: Reconsidering Austin's perlocutionary act in online communication
Semiotica. Volume 2014, Issue 202, Pages 425-437, ISSN (Online) 1613-3692, ISSN (Print) 0037-1998, DOI: 10.1515/sem-2014-0043, October 2014

Comunicazione e bene comune

Cantoni, L. (2014). Comunicazione e bene comune. Cristianità, 373, 39-43

a current and a few upcoming events

• I'm coordinating the Summer School IDEAL Tourism - Information and communication technologies for promotion and development of sustainable tourism around cultural and natural destinations. The case of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites (see a photostory of the first week here)
• I'll do presentations at the following events:
• Vienna (Austria), 11-12 September 2014: ETC 10th TourMIS Users' Workshop & International Seminar on Knowledge Sharing for Tourism Destinations (speaker, together with Nadzeya Kalbaska)
• Lugano (Switzerland), 25 September 2014: Noi e il digitale: sfide e opportunità (panelist)
• Pisa (Italia), 9-12 October 2014: Internet Festival 2014, L'etica e la Rete (panelist)
• Guimarães (Portugal), 27-30 October 2014: ICEGOV 2014, The 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (paper, together with Elmira Gazizova and Asta Adukaite)
• Istambul (Turkey), 6-8 November 2014: conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage (keynote)
• Paris (France), 19-21 November 2014: European Master in InterCultural Communication (EMICC) - Eurocampus 2014 (lecturer) 
• Baden (Switzerland), 27 November 2014: SWISS E-Commerce Conference (speaker)
• Bragança and Mirandela (Portugal), 4-7 December: conference Smart Travel 2014 (keynote)

"Right listening is the beginning of right living" (Plutarch, De auditu)

... ἀρχὴ τοῦ καλῶς βιῶναι τὸ καλῶς ἀκοῦσαι...

Comunicazione. Un manuale per la scuola media superiore

Lorenzo Cantoni, Michela Cortesi, Monica Di Maio, Marco Faré
Comunicazione. Un manuale per la scuola media superiore
Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, Roma 2014 (disponibile da settembre), pp. 236, 13 euro

The role of e-learning applications within the tourism sector

eLearn Center Research Paper Series
8 (2014)
special issue on The role of e-learning applications within the tourism sector
coordinated by Oriol Miralbell, Lorenzo Cantoni, Nadzeya Kalbaska
fully available online for download

Destination Online Communication: Why Less is Sometimes More. A Study of Online Communications of English Destinations

Alessandro Inversini, Lorenzo Cantoni, Marianna De Pietro
Destination Online Communication: Why Less is Sometimes More. A Study of Online Communications of English Destinations 
Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing 
Vol. 31, Iss. 5, 2014

Barriers and Facilitators in the Maturity Process for Web Promotion of Italian Tourist Destinations

Barriers and Facilitators in the Maturity Process for Web Promotion of Italian Tourist Destinations (available in English and in Italian)  
by Cristina Fabi, Elena Marchiori, Lorenzo Cantoni
AlmaTourism. Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development, 5/1 (2014)

The Role of Food and Gastronomy in Online Travel Reviews about Agritourism Experiences. The case of Italy

The slides of the presentation The Role of Food and Gastronomy in Online Travel Reviews about Agritourism Experiences. The case of Italy by Elena Marchiori, Fabienne Boegli, Asta Adukaite, and Lorenzo Cantoni.
Done at the 3rd International Conference UNITWIN - UNESCO Chair “Culture, Tourism, Development”: Tourism and Gastronomy Heritage: Foodscapes, Gastroregions and Gastronomy Tourism, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. June 18th 2014

Congratulations to dr. Sara Vannini and dr. Francesca Fanni!

Congratulations!
see all details here >>>

Jimmy Wales doctor honoris causa in Communication Sciences

Just had the great honor to award the title of doctor honoris causa of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI lugano, Switzerland) to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikimedia foundation.
Hereafter the reason as it appears on the diploma: “Per il suo ruolo nel promuovere la condivisione online della conoscenza e nell’offrire una piattaforma enciclopedica collaborativa aperta alle diverse lingue e culture” (“For his role in promoting online knowledge sharing, and in providing a collaborative encyclopedic platform open to different languages and cultures”).
At the following link it can befound my laudatio >>>

Nuovi media nella comunicazione turistica

È ora disponibile il volume in formato cartaceo:
Inversini, A. & Cantoni, L., Nuovi media nella comunicazione turistica, Società Editrice Dante Alighieri, Roma 2014, pp. 214, euro 12,00

Buona Pasqua! Happy Easter!

Pietro Lorenzetti, Resurrection (c. 1320)
Fresco, Lower Church, San Francesco, Assisi

Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies and Research Areas

Jamie Murphy, Nadzeya Kalbaska, Alan Williams, Peter Ryan, Lorenzo Cantoni, Laurel C. Horton-Tognazzini
Massive Open Online Courses: Strategies and Research Areas 
Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education
Vol. 26, Iss. 1, 201, pp. 39-43

the new IFITT newsletter

Dear colleagues and friends,
 
I am very happy and excited to write these lines, honored to start serving our IFITT community as president.
First, I want to thank the past president, Dimitrios Buhalis, for his fundamental role in bringing IFITT where it is now, as well as all other previous presidents: Hannes Werthner, Josef Margreiter, and Andrew Frew. I would also like to thank all members of the previous board, for their great service.
I am pleased to introduce the members of the new board: Iis Tussyadiah, vice-president, Mathias Fuchs, Wolfram Hoepken, Alessandro Inversini, Barbara Neuhofer, Tinkara Pavlovcic, Dimitris Serifis, and Phil Xiang. With their remarkable competence and commitment, I am sure we will do a great journey together.
In Lugano, Dr. Nadzeya Kalbaska from webatelier.net will lead a dedicated team: Hazique Gul Memon, managing online communication activities, and Alessandra Filippi, devoted to membership management.
In Dublin, while enjoying ENTER2014, I had the chance to briefly present my approach and main goals: you can see the full presentation here.
Let us start with our identity. Like in the Irish Claddagh, we have two hands keeping a crowned heart: on one hand, we need to be relevant for the industry and responsible for society, while on the other hand we have to ensure scientific soundness and rigor. Both activities being done with an un-divided heart: Share knowledge, experience, and a true passion for ICT in travel and tourism!
Three major areas of activity should be addressed:
Service to our members: listening to their needs, keeping them in contact, making sure that they know each other and enjoy relevant and fruitful conversations, providing relevant materials to learn and upgrade. All in all, we need to ensure that we constantly provide value for money/subscription.
IFITT growth: should happen naturally, supporting chapters and sense of ownership, making sure that IFITT flag is present at relevant events. Communication will play a major role here. After having tested several channels, we are going to focus on a few selected ones: this newsletter, our website, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
Walk the talk: we constantly need to stay focused on our role, as pioneers in the field of eTourism, we will “walk the talk” in the way we communicate and cover bleeding edge topics.
As you can see, there will be a clear continuity with the steps done by IFITT so far: we will be happy if we are able to continue the journey even further, with passion and focus.
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About my role and myself. I am professor at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland), and dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences. I am director of the Institute for Communication Technologies, and scientific director of three labs: webatelier.net, devoted to eTourism, NewMinE Lab, devoted to ICT4D, and eLab, devoted to eLearning. In 2013, I have become chair-holder of the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites, recently established at USI Lugano.
To move to more serious things: I am married with Stefania, and I am a father of six kids: Giorgio, Giuseppe, Teresa, Marco, Carlo, and Davide. Moreover, we live in Ligornetto.
I will play my role as a facilitator, who is supposed to listen to our community’s needs, and to help it grow in a harmonic way. To make sure that every IFITT member can feel he/she is the real president!

Yours, in eTourism,
Lorenzo

Please, find below the 18th issue of IFITT newsletter featuring: 
•Welcome from the president
•Self presentation of the new Board members
•Selected photos from ENTER2014
•ENTER2014 Awards
•Featured IFITT Events
•Presentation of Lugano Team

Please find the full newsletter here: http://ifitt.org/admin/public/uploads/files/ifitt_newsletter_18th_2014.pdf

WHACY - World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC)

WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in Southern African Development Community (SADC) is going to start, make sure you participate in the great photo contest on FB, and subscribe to the campaign!