Damn it, I’m a Touristologist!!!

by | Feb 19, 2013 | General

On Sundays I like to meet with a crowd of programmers and pretend to be one of them. I copy their lingo, I do my best using their tools, I try to understand, use and make their framework mine. Sometimes, we meet in public libraries. Absolutely my fault! I love books,...

The making of a Touristologist builder.

by | Jan 22, 2013 | General

Previously in this blog, I Touristologistly declare to be a Touristologist builder. I have been a lecturer in tourism for 21 years. I neither teach the same course 21 times nor use the same methodology. Both the concepts and the methodology improve/ evolve after each...

I still want to be a Touristologist! What about you?

by | Jan 4, 2013 | General

This week, twenty one years ago… I taught my first class in Touristology. I soon realize that my students in their last year knew more about tourism than myself. I put all my energy and effort to change that! I learn from my students (I still do!), I learn from other...

Homage to My Touristologists!

by | Dec 1, 2012 | General

The other day I was asking for another successful Touristologist in order to win the battle against mental limitations… if I had known that if was just necessary to ask for it…  I would have done it before!!! Just after writing my post appears a good bunch of...

Web Services OR Web Scraping?

by | Nov 3, 2012 | General, Grau

The other day we talked about Top-Down versus Bottom-up approach in Tourism. Today I would like to use these ideas in Web-Engineering (I know, I know… Can you talk about other things apart from Touristology and Web-Engineering? Yes! But not here or at least not...