Great class of the European Master in InterCultural Communication!

Teaching "Promotion and Localization of Websites for Sustainable Tourism" within the European Master in InterCultural Communication at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) in Paris.

ICT for Sustainable Tourism in World Heritage Sites. An Overview and Some Cases

Istanbul (Turkey), 7 November 2014: conference Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality. A Heritage of Hospitality and Hospitality for Heritage. My keynote presentation. 

When eGov Deals With Tourists. The Case of Visa Information

a paper by Asta Adukaite, Elmira Gazizova, & Lorenzo Cantoni from Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland), presented at ICEGOV, the 8th International Conferences on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (Guimarães, Portugal). 
the slides of the presentation:

a picture with Nuno Santos and Luo Peipeng:

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