I've discontinued updating this blog several years ago. 

Please, find hereafter the links where you can find update info:

• USI - Università della Svizzera italiana
• UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites
• Twitter
• ORCID
• Google Scholar

ECREA 2018 Lugano (Switzerland)

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Rethinking local community involvement in tourism development

Ndivo, R. M., & Cantoni, L. Rethinking local community involvement in tourism development. Annals of Tourism Research (2015), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2015.11.014

I wish all of you a very merry Christmas and a great 2016!
Tantissimi auguri di un santo Natale e di un sereno 2016!

Nativity scene, from an ivory plaque on the Trier bookcovers, 10th century.

Communication and Technology

Cantoni, L., & Danowski, J. A. (Eds.). (2015). Communication and Technology. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.
http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/179986 

 

Exploring and Experimenting Cooperative Design

David, S. & Cantoni, L. (2015). Exploring and Experimenting Cooperative Design. In A. Marcus (Ed.), DUXU 2015, Part I, LNCS 9186, pp. 149-156.

eTourism: Communication Perspectives

I'm very happy to inform that we have just announced the MOOC - Massive Open Online Course - eTourism: Communication Perspectives by USI - Università della Svizzera italiana and its UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.
It is, as far as I know, the very first MOOC covering the eTourism topic, a most needed one, considering the role plaid by Information and Communication Technologies within tourism and hospitality.
 
The course, fully free and open, will be delivered in October-November 2015; it will last 8 weeks, and will require approximately three hours study time per week. Among the intended publics, we can list: Destination managers, People active in the tourism industry, Policy makers, Students, in particular within tourism and hospitality programs, Academia and researchers.

You can watch the teaser, see the list of modules, and enrol directly from the iVersity platform

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: