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----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Rosa María Merino Sent: Friday, 13 February 2009 12:52 p.m. To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org 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@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Titchener Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 12:45 PM To: air-l@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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