I still want to be a Touristologist! What about you?
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...
read moreHomage to My Touristologists!
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...
read moreCuenta Satélite de Turismo
La CST fue aprobada en el año 2000 después de diecisiete años de estudio y preparación en la que participaron organismos tan importantes como la OMT, OCDE, Eurostat y WTTC (Consejo Mundial de Turismo), bajo al dirección y supervisión de la ONU. En ella se incluyen...
read moreWeb Services OR Web Scraping?
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...
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As you know, I have two intellectual lovers: Touristology and Web-Engineering, which I think are strongly related. A case in point, a few days ago I went to a Tourist destination trying to dynamize their tourism activities. You know, the usual rules which make me love...
read moreDo you want to become a Revenue Manager? Not everybody has what it takes!
Is Revenue Management a tool worth having for a Touristologist? YES! But it’s not a tool it’s a way to manage hotels focusing on PROFITS and coordinating all the departments of the hotel and all the members of the chain of value! At least this is my vision for Revenue...
read moreWill specialization beat generalization?
A sort of summary: At the end of the day, in this post I want to highlight … 1) In all sectors usually it’s better first generic and then specialized, BUT in tourism as I try to prove here is just the other way around! 2) In all sectors (and Social Networking Sites,...
read moreEl binomi Universitat-Empresa
LA INTERRALACIÓ DE L’ EMPRESA I UNIVERSITAT: La universitat forma futurs professionals i emprenedors amb un conjunt de continguts teòrics, unes actituds, uns valors i unes competències professionals i alhora ha de donar resposta a les necessitats formatives de les...
read moreCloenda OCITUR 2012 – Primer Congrés d’Oci i Turisme
Inauguració OCITUR 2012 – Primer Congrés d’Oci i Turisme
Ocitur 2012 – Conferència Inagural: La taxa turística és la solució?
Ocitur 2012 – Taula Comunicació: El paper de les noves tecnologies en el segle XXI
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