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lorenzo cantoni

lorenzo cantoni
43 days ago

Open Educational Resources may play a major role to promote tourism, especially helping people who cannot attend regular courses, and/or pay fees – think for instance of those working in small and medium tourism enterprises, of low level emploees, of women, etc. – to upgrade their knowledge and skills.

Tourism Open Educational Resources (TOER) may be also important in developing areas, to foster sustainable tourism, both because TOER are freely available, and because they can be easily adapted and localized for different contexts and cultures.

lorenzo cantoni

lorenzo cantoni
43 days ago

Just to suggest a very interesting reading on the topic:

Nadkarni, S. & Venema, M.Tourism Capacity Building in Developing Geographies: A Case for Open Educational Resources, in L. Cantoni (ed.), Special issue on eTourism and eLearning, «itt – Journal of information technology & tourism», 13/1 (2012)pp. 27-37

Tamar

Tamar
43 days ago

Could you please to indicate were this article is available for reading in the Internet?

Thank you in advance!

lorenzo cantoni

lorenzo cantoni
42 days ago

dear Tamar, thank you for the message. the file is reachable at the following link: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/cog/itt/2012/00000013/00000001

elena_getmanova

elena_getmanova
41 days ago

Hello, It's really good to have possibility visit other country. And may be sometimes more useful yje first understand what country is (by OER) and only the second really to visit.

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lorenzo cantoni

lorenzo cantoni
41 days ago

yes, sure. in fact, for that end, there are several online courses designed for travel agents, which are for free but not OER. see a list here: http://www.elearning4tourism.com/elearning-programs/

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