Sharing Spaces Caring Places

For my postdoctoral stay at the University of Catalonia (2020-2023) I recently received the 2024 Santander Award. This recognition means a lot to me also because it provides me with an opportunity to reflect on

Cleaning rooms and common spaces in hotels is crucial work. Housekeeping is important for the aesthetic appeal of a hotel and ensures the safety, comfort, and hygiene of its spaces. Despite the importance of housekeeping,

Together with principal investigator Pau Obrador Pons (Northumbria University, UK) and Dave Loder (University of Edinburgh, UK), I will start working on a project that examines the digital mediations of home through short-term rental platforms.

Really proud and happy to see this collaboration reaching fruition! Now to be found on the bookshelves is “Tourism and Biopolitics in Pandemic Times”, published by Palgrave Macmillan and written together with Christine Ampumuza, Caterina

In a series of articles that will be published throughout November and December 2023, I explore how science in relation to the COVID-19 health crisis is selectively used to advance certain (bio)political agendas, and how

‘Thinking through digital mediations and spatialities of platform based work’ is a roundtable reflection between geographers. The publication explores, contextualizes and problematizes the role of geography in the gig economy. This collection of reflections and

From 19 to 21 September, 2023 The European Tourism Research Institute (ETOUR) at Mid Sweden University hosted the annual Nordic Symposium on Tourism and Hospitality Research with the theme “Rethinking tourism for a sustainable future”.

SMARTDEST has been an EU-funded H2020 research project that brought together 11 universities and 1 innovation center from seven European and Mediterranean countries. “The project has aimed to develop innovative solutions in the face of

My co-authored paper with Richard Carter-White on Virtual Reality in Geography Education has been selected for the top Wiley Prize for 2022 by the editorial team at the journal Geographical Research, as well as the

On 13 June 2022, I took part in a round table discussion on “Thinking through digital mediations and spatialities of platform based work”. The discussion was part of the Stockholm University’s Higher Seminar Series at

The 8th International Workshop on the Sharing Economy (IWSE) took place in Vienna, Austria, this year. This yearly event provides a forum for critical reflections on the developments in the past and an outlook on

On Monday 15 May, Claudio Minca and I co-organised a workshop on “Tourism and the Biopolitical” with a wonderful group of scholars working in Canada, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Uganda. Whilst the “management

In the upcoming months I will begin an important phase in my research project on Tourism Platforms, together with my colleagues Soledad Morales Pérez, Lluís Garay Tamajón and Mar Alsina Folch. We will start carrying

Upon invitation by Professors Yuko Itatsu and Yujin Yaguchi at the University of Tokyo, Japan, my colleague Richard Carter-White and I visited the “Beyond Artificial Intelligence” Forum (B’AI) for a week in December 2022. The

Together with co-authors Aarni Tuomi, Brana Jianu and Mário Passos Ascenção we have published our research on the algorithmic management of food delivery platforms. In many countries, on-demand food delivery platforms (e.g. Deliveroo, Wolt, Uber

On 18 October, I organized a hybrid seminar on “Accessibility and Inclusive Tourism in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic“. Invited presenters talked about their research and professional involvement in this field. After the presentations,

It was good fun to be interviewed by journalist Cristina Sáez Torres on my new book “Hospitality, Home and Life in the Platform Economies of Tourism”. Among other questions, Cristina asked me about the meaning

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,

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 Centre for Space, Place and Society seminar “We’ve got a file on you! Datafication and quantification in academia and beyond” at Wageningen University and Research had to be

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

Between the 2 and 4 June, I visited Dania Academy in Randers, Denmark where I was invited to give a lecture to students enrolled in the BA International Hospitality Management. The lecture broadly covered the

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