Sharing Spaces Caring Places

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

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

The IAG Conference is the annual meeting of the Institute of Australian Geographers. The 2019 conference – entitled Geographies of emergence, divergence and convergence – was held at Wrest Point in Hobart (Tasmania, Australia), a

Good news reached our inboxes this week: together with Michael Rampe (principal investigator), Dr. Ronika Power and Dr. Bénédicte André, based at Macquarie University, we have succeeded in our application for an Echo360 Research Grant. 

For the third time since I started my position at Macquarie University, I have delivered a guest lecture in the Sustainable Urban Regions postgraduate course. In this lecture, I discuss the rise of the ‘platform

On 21 May I delivered a guest lecture in the Living in the Anthropocene postgraduate course at Macquarie University, Australia. The unit focuses upon how we should live in the Anthropocene and respond to the

On 6 May, I give a guest lecture in the Urban Strategic Planning undergraduate course at Macquarie University. This course focuses on urban strategic planning at the regional and local government level in the Australian

I presented a paper on ‘The Tourism Worker and the Platform Economy’ at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Washington (DC, USA) on 4 April. The presentation was part of the session ‘Towards

This is the second time that I give a guest lecture in the Leisure, Tourism and Environment: Experiences and Environments postgraduate course at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. Having been an MSc student at Wageningen University

On 14 January, I gave an invited talk at the Department of Geography, University of Potsdam, Germany. The talk was part of the Café Geographique seminar series and centered on the work that I have

Together with Claudio Minca, I was invited to deliver a keynote at the Faculty of Tourism and Geography at the University Rovira i Virgili (Spain) on 11 January. The presentation reflected on the cultural geographies

The Critical Tourism Studies network Asia-Pacific (CTSAP) held its Inaugural Conference on 3 – 6 March at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Together with Claudio Minca, on 5 March I gave a paper on the

In November and December 2016, I had the privilege to spend time with colleagues at both Tokyo University and Rikkyo University (Japan). During my visiting scholarship, I also delivered lectures at both host institutions. The visit