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Two surveys now Online

May 12th, 2008 Posted in Bournemouth, Cultural Tourism, beanbol, eTourism, ricerca, web trends | No Comments »

I have published two surveys as part of my Phd Dissertation.

The aim of these surveys is to understand the web sites stakeholders strategic management issues in tourism and cultural tourism. So that, if you are a DMO manager, or a Cultural Attarction manager, please feel free to complete one of the two survey above.

I will really appreciate that! :-)

DMOs survey:

http://interviste.lu.unisi.ch/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=DESTINATIONS

Cultural Attractions SURVEY:

http://interviste.lu.unisi.ch/mrIWeb/mrIWeb.dll?I.Project=CULTURALATTRACTI

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Summer@BU: the mirage of the bra

May 9th, 2008 Posted in Bournemouth, beanbol, italiano, me, opinioni | No Comments »

La mattina comincia un po’ stancamente…sono le 9.50 ed è da 20 minuti che sono seduto alla mia “scrivania”. Ho compiuto tutte le operazioni mattiniere. Le mie tre caselle di posta, i miei siti di informazione, qualche blog, skype che ti ricorda i compleanni (Auguri Mel!!!)…e ora sono pronto.

Ho deciso però, di prendermi altri 10 minuti per raccontare la trasformazione di una città e di una università.
Lo scorso week end, ero un po’ “home sick” così ho deciso di salire sul primo aereo per l’Italia e di tornare a casa per vedere amici, morosa, famiglia. Sono partito da Bournemouth la mattina di giovedì che pioveva e tirava vento a raffiche…sono arrivato a Londra e il vento era cessato ma la pioggerellina inglese continuava. E fin qui nulla di strano. Salito sull’aereo, come da tradizione, tocco il sedile e mi addormento.

Scendo a Milano. L amia giacca “Casco”- dal peso specifico di 20 Kg - è inadatta ai 18 gradi e forse più che trovo il primo Maggio…la tengo su un po’ ma poi non resisto. Risultato: una volta tolta la giacca avevo bisogno di una doccia. Ma fin qui nulla di strano. È maggio, è Italia.

Torno a Bounemouth martedì: lascio il mio gillet senza maniche nella valigetta, e rimetto la mia giacca “Casco” memore di come fosse il tempo la settimana prima…scendo a Londra e già un po’ capisco di essermi perso qualche passaggio. Ma la vera tragedia succede quando arrivo qui. Al mare.

Ragazzi è estate! Io non ci posso credere. Nel giro di 4 giorni tutto è cambiato. Il vento e la pioggia hanno lasciato spazio ad un cielo blu e ad un sole caldo. Mi sento a disagio a girare con il mio gilerino senza maniche come giacca…nessuno ha la giacca! Ma so che il giorno che lo lascerò a casa sarò sorpreso da una tormenta di neve alla fermata dell’autobus…

Gran parte delle fanciulle inglesi non hanno il reggiseno per lasciare la schiena lampadata scoperta, altre hanno degli shorts improponibili. Io e Luca giriamo con le nostre giacchette da italiani medi che non si fidano per il campus, memori che un giorno il famoso Enghlish Weather ce lo metterà in quel posto…

E noi saremo pronti.

È proprio vero. In Inghilterra si parla solo del tempo!
;-)

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Tourism Marketing Dynamics - Conference

May 7th, 2008 Posted in Bournemouth, Conferences, beanbol, eTourism | No Comments »

molto tempo che nn scrivo sul blog…
troppo lavoro o solo un po’ di scazzo che aleggia nell’aria?
ai posteri l’ardua sentenza…o meglio a chi dovrà valutare la mia tesi di dottorato..

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Anyway, today I have attended the Tourism Marketing Dynamics Conference at the Bournemouth University.
Here there is the program of the conference >>>

It has been really interesting although is not  my research focus.

The best presentation in my opinion have been:
- Luiz Moutinho (University of Glasgow): future trends in consumer behaviour in tourism
- Adrian Lawes (ConsumerData): Turning statistics into knowledge and power

Two showmen…but really interesting presentation about the role of consumer in the new tourism value chain and about the significance of the statistical data… I hope that the presentation will be soon available on the Internet…

The conference was promoted by:

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http://www.swtourism.co.uk/_themes/swt/_images/swt/swengland_logo.gif

Travolution Awards 2008

April 29th, 2008 Posted in Blog, English, eTourism, web trends | No Comments »

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TRAVEL INFORMATION AWARDS

Best Meta Search/Price Comparison Website

Winner: Kayak

“Kayak has developed an easy-to-use interface and the user experience is supported by some incredible pieces of functionality. The site is innovative and pushing the boundaries of travel search.”

Best Travel Portal

Winner: TripAdvisor

“TripAdvisor is still the market leader in providing valuable reviews and content to an enormous cross section of consumers. The recent additions of new functionality are welcome and innovative.”

Highly commended: TravellersPoint.com

“The site is doing some fascinating work with the use of Wikis and destination content and should be applauded for its innovation.”

Best Use of Technology

Winner: Dorling Kindersley

“DK has utilised cutting edge e-publishing techniques to produce a flexible and simple service for visitors to its website. It takes the in-resort guidebook to the next level.”
SM@RT AGENT OF THE YEAR

Winner: Fleetway Travel
BEST TRAVEL CONSUMER BLOG

Winner: Travel Rants

“Darren Cronian has single-handedly set the benchmark to which other consumer-focussed blogs should aspire. Controversial, relevant, thorough and, perhaps most tellingly, much better than something mainstream media organisations are trying to achieve.”
NEWCOMER AWARDS

Best New Online Travel Company

Winner: Worldreviewer.com

“In a market increasingly crowded with new content and experience-led sites, Worldreviewer stands out a mile. It has used exclusive editorial and excellent tools to wonderful effect and ensured its commercial partnerships are relevant to the target market.”

>> here the complete list >>

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CITEuLIKE - social references management

April 20th, 2008 Posted in Social Networks, beanbol, eTourism, ricerca, web trends | No Comments »

I have been looking for a REFERENCE MANAGER for all the Friday afternoon.
The Internet Bible – Wikipedia -  suggested a lot of different software.

Finally, I have decided to use CITEuLIKE an interesting free online social references software to organize my academic papers

 http://static.citeulike.org/img/slogo.gif

It works very easily. It is possible to

    * Post article from web page

    * Post manually

    * Install a browser button

Than it is possible to share the papers (not your private PDF), and to export the reference in the style you prefer.

NOW: join CITEuLIKE and JOIN the eTourism Group >> http://www.citeulike.org/groupfunc/4949

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Asilo@Qualcosina

April 18th, 2008 Posted in beanbol, italiano, me | No Comments »

Qualcosina…party????

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3183/2398827930_587ff28d0c.jpg?v=0

http://qualcosina-party.blogspot.com/

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I am not superman

April 15th, 2008 Posted in Blog, beanbol, me | No Comments »

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7th eTourism Future Forum - eTreasure Presentation

April 14th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Bournemouth, Conferences, beanbol, eTourism | No Comments »

Here two picture taken by Dimitrios during the 7th eTourism Future Forum:

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What is a Point of Interest?

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Where the hell is Matt?

April 11th, 2008 Posted in beanbol, eTourism | 1 Comment »

Where the hell is Matt???

Greetings from the 7th eTourism Future Forum

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7th eTourism Future Forum - Twitter Stream part4

April 11th, 2008 Posted in Blog, Bournemouth, Conferences, beanbol | No Comments »

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-end of the forum!Let’s see next year!

- The four big travel agencies are losing market share online..what the hell are tour operator doing??? :-) graet Roberto!!!!

-  Roberto is giving an overview about the emerging online travel business models about

- Last 7th eTourism Future Forum presentation: Roberto Daniele (Oxford Brookes): Emerging Business models for distriburion channels

 - Online Arena is the main important thing also for GDS…they are adapting themselves

 - no pictures for the speaker! :-)

- GDS -> Gloabl Distribution System :-D

 - 7th eTourism Future Forum last session Riyam Ghandour : The GDS challenge

- Now Matt Jerwood (Wayn) explained the what is WAYN (where are you now?) and it is outlinening the mobile projects of WAYN

- Now Matt Jerwood (Wayn): Mobile applications in tourism

 - My presentation about eTreasure has been ok!

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