Greenhouse gas emissions in tourism are a global problem. Tourism destinations play a key role in tourism development. This article looks at how tourism destinations can reduce their CO2 emissions.
What could be a better place to see the latest eTourism trends (information and communication technologies in tourism) than annual ENTER-conference, organized by the International Federation of IT in Travel & Tourism. At ENTER, academics and practitioners come together to look at and discuss innovative topics in eTourism. Based on what I saw and heard…
Last week I participated in the Digital Tourism Think Tank Global event in Helsinki. #DTTT Global focuses on destination marketing in digital channels and on the role the technology plays in tourism destinations. I have already posted detailed notes from day 1 and day 2 of the seminar, but here I will go deeper into…
Yesterday I uploaded my Destination Marketing insights from the first day of DTTT Global -event. Here in this post are also the notes from the second day. You can download the full notes with nice pictures as pdf file from here. Check out the programme for precise details about the speakers. Kaisa Kosonen, Visit Finland Issues in digital Tourism development…
Destination Marketing is an important topic for me as I am teaching it at the University of Eastern Finland. One of the best places to learn about destination marketing is probably Digital Tourism Think Tank -event. As Helsinki hosts the event this year, it was quite easy for me to participate. I made some notes…
As part of our International Master’s Degree Programme in Tourism Marketing and Management at University of Eastern Finland, I teach one 6 ECTS course on Destination Marketing. This is a brand new course for our university and I have built it from scratch. The course is mainly studied in groups online with extensive material available…
There is an ongoing discussion in the Finnish tourism industry about our digital tourism capabilities. We are looking up to Iceland and how they are promoting and selling their tourism services and products on the Internet. It seems that we think that technology and online travel packages will be the key to grow tourism numbers…