Digital Technologies and Tourism. Workshop on Cultural Routes

A very interesting workshop! see the final program here

Observer les touristes pour mieux comprendre les tourismes - Observing tourists to better understand tourism

5ème colloque international de l’Association ASTRES – Association Tourisme, Recherche et Enseignement Supérieur
La Rochelle (France) -  9-12 juin 2015
Observer les touristes pour mieux comprendre les tourismes - Observing tourists to better understand tourism

I will contribute with a presentation titled: Information and communication technologies to listen to tourists. Practices, opportunities and challenges

see the provisional program here

 

Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”

Very happy and honored to have contributed to the Southern Africa Youth in Tourism Conference “Promoting Sustainable Tourism Development through the Involvement and Participation of the Youth”, which has taken place 23-24 April 2015, in Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius, organized by RETOSA, the Regional Tourism Organisation of Southern Africa.
It has been a great opportunity to meet the Junior Deputy Minister and the Junior Ministers (both current and former ones) of Tourism in the Southern African development Community (SADC), as well as to present WHACY, the World Heritage Awareness Campaign for Youth in SADC.
Hereafter some pictures.

When e-gov deals with tourists: the case of visa information

Asta Adukaite, Elmira Gazizova, and Lorenzo Cantoni. 2014. When e-gov deals with tourists: the case of visa information. 
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 334-337.  
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2691195.2691283 

Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Social Representations of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique

Sara Vannini, Isabella Rega, Simone Sala, Lorenzo Cantoni
Using Photo-Elicitation to Explore Social Representations of Community Multimedia Centers in Mozambique
The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. EJISDC (2015) 67, 8, 1-23
http://www.ejisdc.org/ojs2/index.php/ejisdc/article/view/1297

ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

Online representation of Switzerland as a tourism destination: An exploratory research on a Chinese microblogging platform

Hu, T., Marchiori, E., Kalbaska, N., Cantoni, L. Online representation of Switzerland as a tourism destination: An exploratory research on a Chinese microblogging platform. Studies in Communication Sciences (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.scoms.2014.12.001

Having a sabbatical here / ici

http://www.univ-paris1.fr/ufr/irest/

Merry Christmas and a great 2015! Buon Natale e buon 2015!

Antoni Gaudí, Sagrada Familia (Barcelona), The Birth, by Jaume Busquets.

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...