In my last employment, I was a professor but I was already an established blogger too. It was difficult to juggle the two roles, my travels would take me all over the country whereas my students wished to stay connected. Given the techonological advances how tough that could be? It turned out to be pretty…
Category: academics
On Cloud Nine!
So today was the last day of Sir Bonington’s visit to our campus and the agenda was the most special for me. He was giving away professional development certificates to faculty members and I was one of the recipients. So here I am grinning from ear to ear with Sir Chris Bonington while receiving my certificate. And there…
Destination Branding and the Role of Consumers!
I became tourism researcher by accident. I am quite fond of traveling and I over the years became a heavy user of message boards to plan my travel. While reading something about Agra on Indiamike, I was one day thinking you will never see this in a tourism brochure or on a travel agents website. And then it occurred to me…
National Tourism Websites (NTOs) and their Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and Flickr Pages
The long list of National Tourism Organization links that you saw was actually to determine how many of them use social media. The answer is quite a few. I could find out information about 80 countries that used at least one social media (Web 2.0, Travel 2.0 or whatever you like to call it) platform….
National Tourism Organization Websites of 195 Countries, NTO Websites
If you ever wondered about the official tourism website (also know as National Tourism Organization or NTO of a country) here is a list of 196 195 countries for you. This is a work in progress and an individual effort. Also, I know the list would become obsolete quite soon because so many URLS will change….
It is all Sunny Now!
The picture and the matter of this post are somewhat unrelated. The only relation between the picture and the post is bright and sunny, that is how the flowers look to me. That is how my outlook is these days, now that I have finally completed my grading for the semester. How I feel about…
Innocent Drinks, UK
Innocent Drink, Smoothies, UK When we reached Heathrow (May, 2009) we were dazed as usual. We also had a bus to catch in a hurry so that we could arrive at Oxford, say before 10.00 at night. Since our accommodation was a little out of the city in Oxford, it was advisable that we picked…
The Other Kind of Travel Writing that I Do!
Some of my academic papers that have a travel slant! Social software practices on the internet: Implications for the hotel industry The online destination image of Goa Online destination image of India: a consumer based perspective
One Live Update From IIM Lucknow
I am through with my paper presentation and that is always a relief. I did manage to generate a little bit of discussion where I said people on the messageboard report that Agra City is not attractive at all even though the Taj Mahal is fabulous. Well the quote that I was using was a…
Won Champagne but Traded it for …
I got lucky in a draw at Methodspace (the Sage Message Board for Research), they had announced a competition forum where one could discuss their preferred research methodology. The message board is in its initial phase and there were just two entries for March and I won the champagne bottle. But I traded it for…