Sharing Spaces Caring Places

Since mid 2021, I have been carrying out research on hospitality work and divisions of labour in the Airbnb platform economy, together with Kiley Goyette who is a PhD researcher at the University of Toronto,

The Cultural Geography Group of Wageningen University and Research organized a 3-day meeting (17-19 July) for tourism geographers, many of whom were also attending the 2022  International Geographical Union Conference in Paris. The pre-meeting included

Since 2018, Richard Carter-White and I have examined the claim that virtual reality (VR) holds significant potential for pedagogical applications in geography. Interested to read what we found? The first results of our study have

From 17 to 19 June, the KOI (Collective for Social Interventions) in Sofia (Bulgaria) organized a three-day forum on Urban inequalities: from Right to the City to taking control that aimed “to enrich the understanding

My first monograph has been a long time in the making and for this reason I am particularly excited to see it published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is out now for order and preview in

I am very excited to announce that I have accepted the invitation to join the editorial board of Tourism Geographies as an Associate Editor 🥳 For those interested in publishing in Tourism Geographies check out

On 14 April, I was invited to give a guest lecture on The Digital Turn in Tourism at the Humanities Department of the University of Trieste. The guest lecture was embedded in the Tourism Geographies

Together with Joseph M. Cheer from Wakayama University and Benjamin Lucca Iaquinto from the University of Hong Kong, I am organizing a session on ‘Biopolitics and the geographies of tourism’ at the Nordic Geographers Meeting,

In a recently published study, Simon Lind Fischer and I examine how Airbnb-hosts navigate the new landscape of hospitality within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We question how they have adapted their hosting practices

Recentering Tourism Geographies in the ‘Asian Century’ edited By Harng Luh Sin, Mary Mostafanezhad and Joseph M. Cheer, is expected to be out on 14 April 2022. The chapters in this book published by Routledge

From Overtourism to Undertourism is out now! In this edited volume geographers reflect on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on global tourism and consider what unknown futures may lay ahead. By charting the relatively

On behalf of the Faculty of Economics and Business and the NOUTUR research group at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain) I am organizing a webinar on “The body in tourism during pandemic times” this

In light of our 2019 publication “Becoming Airbnbeings. On datafication and the quantified Self in tourism” in the special issue “Tourism geographies in the Asian Century” in Tourism Geographies I participated in a round table

For the forthcoming book From Overtourism to Undertourism: Sustainable Scenarios in Post Pandemic Times edited by Dr. Valeria Pecorreli, I have written a chapter entitled “Capitalizing on Crises. Airbnb’s Transformations from the Great Recession through

Starting 31 March 2021, I will be teaching a 6-week module on the “Digital Turn in Tourism” at the International University of Languages and Media in Milan (Italy) as an Adjunct Professor. This module consists

Excited to announce the publication of a new article in open access journal Oikonomics. The article is part of a Special Issue on “New strategies and alternative aspects of the platform economy”, coordinated by Lluís

Between 4 an 6 March, the “Smart City” project group at the University of Graz organized the Online Symposium Platform Urbanism – Towards a technocapitalist transformation of European cities? The symposium brought together researchers whose

This year, the 7th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy took place at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and was hosted by the Faculty of Economics and Business. I had the pleasure to be on

Each year on the 31st of December, my habit is to reflect on a year gone by. Surely I am not the only one in doing this! Without going into too much detail, this process

Together with my fellow researcher Claudio Minca (from the University of Bologna, Italy) I have delivered a seminar at the Faculty of Economics and Business at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya – where I am

In April 2020 I contributed a case study of my work to the COST Action group “Sharing and Caring”. The main objective of this action is to “develop a European network of actors focusing on

My research stay in Italy unfolded in a different way than anticipated due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19). Consequently, the seminars that had I planned to give at the University of Bologna in

UPDATE: Due to the COVID-19 outbreak in the Netherlands the CSPS Seminar has been postponed until further notice. I am scheduled to give a talk during the Centre for Space Place and Society Seminar “WE’VE

MQ Lighthouse – Macquarie University’s in-house and online publisher –  has showcased my recent research in the below article (published 16 March 2020). To view this article in High Definition on the MQ Lighthouse website,

Research time…. In the upcoming months I will be dedicating myself fully to new research projects with colleagues in Europe and writing a manuscript for a book that will be published with Palgrave Macmillan in

The bi-annual Critical Tourism Studies Asia-Pacific Conference took place in Wakayama, Japan this year. Besides giving a paper presentation there myself, I moderated a session on ‘Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Tourism’ and attended numerous other

This is the third time that I have delivered a guest lecture in the ‘Tourist Experiences‘ course at Wageningen University. The course “examines the conceptualisation and management of the tourism experience in the context of

I visited the International University of Languages and Media (IULM) in Milan, Italy on 11 November to discuss future collaborations with colleagues at the Faculty of Arts, Tourism and Markets. Additionally, I delivered a guest

Together with my colleagues Dr Richard Carter-White and David di Muro from Macquarie University Library, we have delivered a presentation at the Immersive Technologies Interest Group (ITIG) Exchange. The presentation discusses our experience with the

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) conference took place in London (UK) this year and there were a couple of great sessions that I had the pleasure to attend. The Overtourism