Università della Svizzera italiana

Usability evaluation of an eLearning course presenting a regional destination : the case of “Ticino Switzerland Travel Specialist”

Kalbaska, Nadzeya ; Jovic, Angelina ; Cantoni, Lorenzo

In: e-review of tourism research, 2012, vol. 10, no. 2, p. 31-34

In recent years Destination Management Organizations (DMOs) have started to offer eLearning courses, which train travel agents and tour operators to promote better tourism destinations. eLearning courses increase marketing activities of a DMO also they meet the needs of travel agents, who are in search of new unique selling points in the threatening context of eTourism disintermediation....

Università della Svizzera italiana

eLearning in tourism and hospitality : a map

Cantoni, Lorenzo ; Kalbaska, Nadzeya ; Inversini, Alessandro

In: Journal of hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism education, 2009, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 148 – 156

The impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) on tourism and hospitality industries has been widely recognized and investigated as a one of the major changes within the domains in the last decade: new ways of communicating with prospective tourists and new ways of purchasing products arisen are now part of the industries’ everyday life. Poor attention has been paid so far to...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Knowledge as relationship and e-learning

Botturi, Luca

In: World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education (ELEARN), 2002, vol. 1, p. 144

The shift to new paradigms in education pushed by new media has initiated a critical re-thinking of the way we talk of and practice teaching and learning which is still open. Some concepts of the Western educational tradition can be helpful in finding a new way of integra ting IT in learning. This paper propose to consider knowledge as a relationship and shows how this provides helpful insights...