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Diane Dodd

East Lombardy 2017 presented to tourism professionals

East Lombardy – European Region of Gastronomy 2017 is a project featuring the enhancement of quality local food and wine products and culinary traditions, with a view to integrating them in the tourism offer and to improving local sustainability. East Lombardy 2017 was presented at TTG, an international B2B exhibition on tourism that

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Diane Dodd

Artsy: an easier way to discover the world of art

Artsy is a website with its mission is to make all of the world’s art accessible to every people with an Internet connection. Like a bridge with its growing database of 300,000 images of art, architecture, and design by 40,000 artists spans historical, modern, and contemporary works, and includes the

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

How Innovation and Sustainability transform Tourism

The “2nd International Executive Forum on Tourism Innovation and Entrepreneurship” will take place at the USC campus in Columbia, SC on August 3rd and 4th 2015. Hosted by the University of South Carolina, in collaboration with the Aruba Management Institute for Sustainable Tourism and Development (AMISTAD) and the University of

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

The Importance Of “Cultural Alignment” for Global Creativity

How does culture impact creativity? What is the difference between “local” and “foreign” creative tasks? And what does that all have to do with crowdsourcing? A recently published article sheds light on the relationship between culture, creativity and the importance of “cultural alignment” for cross-cultural creative tasks. Read original article

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

What a Creative Neighborhood Looks Like

A new study shows that the areas where creative workers and scientists live and work look quite different. Innovation and creativity are the basic engines of economic development in cities, regions and nations. But what makes some places more innovative than others? How do certain neighborhoods come to specialize in different

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

How 12 Cities are Charting a Course to Being Truly "Smart"

City governments everywhere are experiencing disruption linked to the explosive growth of smart city technologies and Big Data. Instead of shying away from this period of change, government staffers in a number of locations are embracing digital strategies designed to accelerate city-wide sustainability priorities. The resulting strategies, published in the

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Horizons: Keys to Creativity and Innovation

IGCAT attended a public discussion between Ferran Adrià and Israel Ruiz on the theme “Keys to Creativity and Innovation”. They talked about creativity, innovation, training, science and opportunities in the conference which was held on June 25 at CaixaForum in Barcelona. The meeting was organized by the Association of Scholarship Holders

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

"Bullipedia" Lab to open in Barcelona

Ferran Adria has announced the opening of a BulliPedia Lab in Barcelona where a team of 80 researchers, chefs and techies will work on bringing to life his epic online culinary encyclopedia. The BulliPedia Lab is located in a 5,905-square foot former textile factory and will open May 15th. It will

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Remote Control Tourist campaign wins prestigious award for Tourism Victoria

In an internet-age twist on ‘try-before-you-buy’ marketing, would-be visitors to Victoria will be able to deploy “remote-control tourists” wearing webcams to sample activities around Melbourne. Tourism Victoria’s innovative $3.6 million “virtual tourist experience”, dubbed the Remote Control Tourist, has won a prestigious award. It has been voted Best in Show at the

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Swapsee and EatWith will host Barcelona's first Concept Jam

On February 25th Swapsee and EatWith will bring together some of Barcelona’s brightest professionals to enjoy gourmet home cooking and flex their mind muscles in a creative maelstrom aimed at answering a Conceptual Question: “What is an experience, can it be transmitted online, and if so, how?” … READ MORE

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