Courtesy Jokin BCN @ Flickr
While I’m not sure where the photo above was taken it reminds me of so many slums I’ve seen over the years. Earlier this week, The Boston Globe ran a provocative article about Learning from slums.
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The World Economic Forum announced the release of its 2009 edition of The Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Report. With the general theme of “Managing in a Time of Turbulence” the report provides insight on the difficulties that the sector is experiencing during the current economic downturn. Issues such as the impact of oil prices and how they affect different types of tourism-based economies when they are largely dependant on long-haul arrivals. At a time when competition for fewer travellers will heat up, the report provides a framework to understand areas where each country performs better and those where it must improve. Specially in the current economic climate, Tourism as an industry will receive plenty of attention from governments for a couple of reasons: Tourism is one of the largest employers in most countries and an industry that provides a quick ramp-up for a young workforce, making it a likely target for economic stimulation packages. The report provides rankings for 133 countries, out of which the top 10 are: Switzerland Another way of looking at the rank is selecting those countries that have improved significantly from [...] Almost four years ago I wrote a small article entitled the “Birth of Cool” that was intended to speculate on possible uses for the then largely unsophisticated mobile space. Every day you cross paths with hundreds of people as you go to work, run your errands, find entertainment and go about your life. Without noticing, all your electronic devices are listening for any cue on their digital surroundings. Armed with low-intensity transmission protocols they are capable of establishing instant communication with those in close proximity. Spread across the city, a vast array of hidden transmitters are continuously feeding the information-hungry mobile community. As you visit a gallery and admire a piece of art, a simple click will record your opinion about the moment. Throughout the city you’ll exchange your opinion about all those places you’ve been to and things you’ve seen with every stranger that happens to be “listening”. At the same time you will have received a few dozen tokens representing what the invisible crowd you never met thought was their coolest experience. At the time I was particularly interested in the massive adoption of mobile devices that had the capability of broadcasting location information, and while GPS [...] |
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