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

Gordon Titchener gmtitchener at shaw.ca
Fri Feb 13 14:00:31 PST 2009


Thanks all for the suggestions thus far.

Rosa Maria, I'm struggling with this one: "The virtual landscape
conveys no magnetism or emotions."

While I certainly appreciate where you are coming from and support the
current move toward place appreciation in such projects as geotourism, slow
food, etc. I think the statement might be a bit strong?

My experience suggests that while organized tourism has created many
contrived and monotonous landscapes (see Relph on Placelessness?) people are
using virtual spaces such as WWW to express and socially construct meaning
in their "real world" experiences?

I look forward to struggling further!  :-)

Cheers,

GT



-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rosa María Merino
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Subject: Re: [Air-L] Any Tourism Folks on Air-L?

Hello!
I think the virtual information helps us to give us an idea of a place,
but is very distinct smell, eat and live on site. The virtual landscape
conveys no magnetism or emotions. Rgds, Rosa María


> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Titchener
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:45 PM
> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> 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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