CATS will hold the Tourism Online Forum Series (TOFS) vol.31 on Wednesday, March 13. Anyone is welcome to attend. We look forward to your participation.

Digital transformations of tourism and related community impacts

Abstract:
Since the 1960s, digital technologies have become fully entangled in the organization, production, and consumption of tourism. This presentation draws on a variety of case studies in places around the world to exemplify the opportunities and challenges that digital innovations in tourism have brought about throughout the last decades. Leading questions throughout the presentation are: what are the broader implications of digital technologies for aspects of social, environmental, and economic sustainability in tourism? How do they affect demand and supply in tourism as well as the livelihoods of communities in tourist destinations? And how may digital innovations ensure more sustainable, socially just and equitable tourism futures?

Keywords: digital technology; digitalization; tourism communities; sustainable innovations; equitable tourism

Hosted by: Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)

Date/Time: Wednesday 13 March 2024  |  19:00-20:30(JST)

Venue: Online (Zoom Webinar)

Language: English

Capacity: 50 persons

Participation fee: Free to join (pre-registration system)

Speaker: Dr. Maartje Roelofsen
Bio:
Maartje Roelofsen is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Cultural Geography Group at Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Sustainable Urban and Regional Development from the University of Graz in Austria. Maartje’s research has examined digital transformations within the realm of tourism, urban space, and geography education. Since 2014, she has engaged in a long-term ethnographic project on Airbnb and its transformation of the home, everyday life and the gendered, racialized and classed divisions of household labour. More recently, Maartje has made contributions to debates in geography education on the use of digital technologies in learning and teaching. Maartje is an Associate Editor of the journal Tourism Geographies and has recently published a monograph on Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism with Palgrave Macmillan.

Moderator: Dr. Meng Qu

Registration:
Please register at the URL below. Application deadline is Tuesday, March 12, 2024.
https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6rIfwLIsQs-UUMhNGPOHAw

Contact:
Hokkaido University, Center for Advanced Tourism Studies (CATS)
online-forum(at)cats.hokudai.ac.jp
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