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

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.

ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites

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. 

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)

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

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!

RE-ACT: social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement

with colleagues and friends in Maputo (Mozambique), for a workshop of the project RE-ACT: social REpresentations of community multimedia centres and ACTions for improvement.

 

Tomorrow three panels will run, about policies; trends; and the role of ICT and tourism for development.

Summer school in Lugano (Switzerland)

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
August 25-September 5, 2014
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano – Switzerland)

Among the instructors: Lorenzo Cantoni, Marcel Danesi, Silvia de Ascanis, Elena Marchiori, Amalia Sabiescu, John Traxler, Sara Vannini, Font Xavier

Organized by the UNESCO chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites.

The Awareness Campaign about World Heritage in Southern African Development Community: An ICT4D Perspective

IPID 8th International Annual Symposium 2013
9th-10th December 2013 - University of Cape Town, South Africa
 
I'm happy and honored to present a keynote address to the good friends of IPID on the following topic: The Awareness Campaign about World Heritage in Southern African Development Community: An ICT4D Perspective.

IPID is the world’s largest network of postgraduate students doing research in ICT4D and operates through inter alia support to doctoral and master students and increased visibility at international conferences. The network is administered by the Informatics department at Business School, Örebro University and funded by the SPIDER.
See the full program here.

Patrimonio Mondiale Ticino (Svizzera) – Versione Beta

La app presenta i due siti del Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO in Ticino (Svizzera): il sito culturale dei Castelli di Bellinzona, la cinta muraria del borgo e la Murata, e il sito naturale del Monte San Giorgio.