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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: August 2009
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Saturday, 8 August 2009. Time as a Major Barrier to Sustainable Development. There are many barriers to sustainable development, including. Trying to making connections between sustainability issues that exist at different scales (from personal to community to global),. Deciding how to properly balance environmental, social and ecological issues. The same problem can (and will...
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: May 2007
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Wednesday, 23 May 2007. And more commerically exploited. Newpaper articles and online reports about voluntourism and voluntourists have surely increased in recent months. A short query shows this. Publications like desertnews conclude. In April this year conclude "that consumers are becoming more interested in vacations with a voluntarism aspect". Also the LA Times observes.
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: On the Use and Abuse of Tourism Satellite Accounts
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Tuesday, 6 May 2008. On the Use and Abuse of Tourism Satellite Accounts. I posted a link to my blog post on Tourism is Not the World's Largest Industry! An example of the statements that people made based on the TSA is seen in this post, which was also emailed to, and reposted on, eTurboNews. May 05, 2008:. Click Here to see the original article on eTurboNews. Well, of course ...
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: January 2008
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Sunday, 6 January 2008. Tourism as the last Utopia? With the e-zine atopia. Has agured that tourism might be the last Utopia. He explains:. Auge is well known and has been critized a lot for his notion of non-places. Drugged into consent by the cultural industries, human beings lost their capacity to critically reflect their condition and lost their freedom altogether.
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: February 2008
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Tuesday, 5 February 2008. On the road to a moneyfree future? Boyle used to be an entrepreneur with a dot.com business, but for a few years already he has been advocating for an economy without money. The Freeconomy community. Is about sharing skills and knowledge. Freeconomy has over 3000 members in 56 countries offering skills, land and knowledge to other members. What kind o...
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Travel 2.0 Tech and Fun: Mashup, ultima frontiera del travel on-line
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Giovedì 16 aprile 2009. Mashup, ultima frontiera del travel on-line. Dunque, dove eravamo rimasti? Si, vediamo, disintermediazione, contenuti social, comparatori, declino delle OTA, tutte cose già discusse. Ma cosa emerge in questi primi mesi del 2009? 160;Segnatevela, studiatevela e cercate in ogni modo di farla entrare nel vostro business turistico, altrimenti sarete tagliati fuori nel giro di un paio di anni. Per chi non fosse proprio addetto ai lavori, il Mashup (. Vedi definizione su Wikipedia.
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Travel 2.0 Tech and Fun: luglio 2009
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Lunedì 20 luglio 2009. Italia.it: il cantiere è aperto. E' stata resa pubblica la prima versione, definita "demo", del nuovo portale Italia.it. Ben più interessante è però il documento Pdf di Presentazione del portale. Fornito dal Ministro Brambilla nella conferenza stampa del 15 Luglio 2009. Seza dilungarmi sui dettagli, voglio soffermarmi su alcuni punti che ritengo fondamentali per il successo del portale:. Il portale italia sarà un Destination Management System (DMS) che consente di raccogliere, gest...
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: October 2007
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Saturday, 13 October 2007. China's Online Travel Industry. The China Web2.0 Review blog recently covered several new Chinese travel sites, comparing them to some of the more popular US travel sites. Comparing Some New Chinese Travel Websites. I have an article in this month's (Oct 2007) issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review. Chinese travel agents discourage online bookings ...
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: August 2007
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Tuesday, 14 August 2007. What is Travel 3.0? From the many podcasts that I listen to, I have basically heard of two definitions for Web 3.0:. Always connected portable technology. Virtual worlds and MMOGs. Make sense to me. Are among the leaders into this everywhere web space, which I predict will move toward greater convergence in the coming decades. UPDATE: March 26, 2008:.
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T.: Mission Statement
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New Economics of Tourism N.E.T. The Weblog of the Centre for Tourism and Cultural Change (CTCC) at Leeds Metropolitan University. Wednesday, 23 May 2007. In tourism, to the alternative economics of exchange in ‘ Volun-tourism. Contributions are invited from an international, multi-disciplinary range of scholars and institutions. N.E.T provides a convenient and illuminating proximity of breaking international news and lasting reflections on the issues addressed and serves as a global networkin...This webl...
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