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

[Heidelberg, Chris]

Hi Gordon:

Have you considered museums like The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia,
PA. USA which has an virtual and live presence and an edutainment
presence when you visit the museum. The Texas Institute of Cultures is
doing the same thing in San Antonio. Disney is doing it in Orlando, and
the Hollywood studios are doing it Los Angeles. Three of the
participants in my dissertation study had Disney connections even though
they lived in different parts of the country and it was eye-opening to
get the perspectives.

Chris A. Heidelberg, III, Ph.D.
Loyola MD Faculty

Social Security Administration
Producer/Director & Internet Development Specialist 

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

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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