Marc | March 9, 2009
When I was growing up, vacations used to mean getting away from it all. Not any more… When Leslie and I head off tomorrow, we will be carrying two laptops plus the usual electronic suspects (and our dog… the cat stays here). Indeed, almost half of the pre-vacation shopping consisted of getting electroic paraphenalia.
Marc | July 4, 2008
One of the more interesting things I’ve done in the past few years is to look at how “myths” influence corporations and other organizations. In February, my friend and colleague at Insignia (I’m the Anthropologist in Residence there) Lydia Zorn and I presented some of this at the MRIA QRD conference in Toronto. [...]
Marc | June 3, 2008
Canada’s Tourism industry is in trouble.
“Canada’s tourism sector is on the brink of a crisis today, and we need urgent action from governments at all levels to address some longstanding structural burdens on our industry,”
said Randy Williams, President and CEO of Tourism Industry Association of Canada in a recent press release and on the CTV [...]
Marc | November 9, 2007
This is the final day of the Canada e-Connect conference in Vancouver – Canada’s first conference on e-Tourism strategy. I’ve been here since Wednesday, and it has been an “interesting” conference – kudos to Jens Thraenhart for organizing it!
The conference is being held at the Fairmont Waterfront hotel in Vancouver which, in my opinion, served [...]
john on Some more (!) HTS news…
Marc on 
Johnny on Johnny on Marc on