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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

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