[Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L?

[Evelyn Rodríguez]

Just a quick note:

You should check out travel.mediamatic.net! They are still working on  
it, but it is very promising.

On Feb 13, 2009, at 18:44, "Gordon Titchener" <gmtitchener at shaw.ca>  
wrote:

> Hi, all.
>
> I'm a relative newcomer to AOIR and I've been impressed with the  
> quality and
> quantity of information being shared here!  Many thanks to the  
> generous
> community for all your efforts.
>
> I am particularly interested in tourism, critical discourse, online
> communities of consumption and the merging of virtual and tangible
> destinations, i.e. Ascher's hyperplaces with Eglash's (after Sabel and
> Piore) Flexible Economic Networks.
>
> I am not at all sure of the overlap between this list and other
> tourism/leisure/sociology/geographic lists such as Trinet (sounds  
> like a
> good SNA project?) and would welcome an opportunity to collaborate  
> with
> like-minded scholars.  My experience to date suggests much good work  
> is
> being completed in the semiotic or critical analysis of tourism, and  
> a large
> degree of investment in "hard" informatics to increase operational
> efficiency (groups such as IFITT), but not much at all happening in  
> the
> nexus of these two areas.  I have been fortunate to work with  
> colleagues at
> NZTRI on such projects as destination web-raising and community  
> informatics,
> but am eager to know what else is happening out there?
>
> Thanks and best wishes,
>
> Gordon Titchener
> A. Professor in Tourism Management,
> Thompson Rivers University (on leave 2008-09)
> http://www.tru.ca/tourism/management/faculty/gtitchener.html
> Ph.D. Candidate, Auckland University of Technology
> http://www.nztri.org/
> Director, Dynamic Frontiers Project
> http://www.tourismresearch.com
>
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