During the past year, I have learned quite a lot about forecasting in tourism and hospitality. I have given dozens of radio, magazine and online interviews about the future of tourism. In this video, I present some of the key things that I have learned during the past year about forecasting in tourism. I use…
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.
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…
The 26th ENTER eTourism Conference, ENTER2019, will be organized by IFITT January 30 – February 1, 2019 in Nicosia, Cyprus. Now you might be asking yourself why you should attend this conference next year. As the research track chair of the conference, at least five reasons come up to my mind: 1. Great tourism conference…
One of the best places to understand the state of digitalization in tourism is the annual ENTER conference. It provides a unique overview of what people from all over the world are doing in the field of eTourism, what are the current issues and latest developments. This year, ENTER2018 was organized in Jönköping, Sweden. The…
A new year and time to make some resolutions for what is to come. Many people focus on making themselves better. I decided to try to make the planet a little bit better place by making a #SustainableResolution for 2018. I feel like we as a human race are at a turning point at this very…
There are some extremely useful online business tools, services, and applications for all tourism businesses. This article is built especially for tourism businesses in Western countries, in other countries some practices and tools could be different. I have gathered various tools together that could be useful especially for tourism and hospitality businesses and destinations. Online forums…
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…