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Planet Happiness - Well-being AI dashboard pilot project - to address COVID-19 issues - looking for partners
posted to TRINET May 7, 2020
It’s been super interesting following the many contributions & discussions about our global and local predicaments. Here’s a new angle to consider.
I’m pleased to advise Planet Happiness & the Happiness Alliance has been approached by a technology corporate leading the application of artificial intelligence systems. Our conversation is focused upon solutions to the Covid-19 crisis. Following weeks of discussions, we’ve been asked to share the attached PPT with our network to measure interest to partner with us to pilot what might be described as “well-being dashboards”.
In brief:
Our priority is to identify destinations interested to partner in the design of a dashboard that allows (government/NGO) decision-makers to engage with data collated through deployment of the Happiness Index survey; In this approach, the survey will include “extension questions” for takers illustrating, for example, symptoms of psychological, economic or social stress & vulnerability; and, the dashboard will allow users to run policy scenarios to locally address crisis-related issues.
The attached has been sent to a number of destinations and institutions we’re networked with. We are also keen to receive feedback from TriNet members that might have an interest to collaborate with us on pilot sites. If you are interested and would like to share the attached with any DMOs (or government partners) you might be working with, please do. Should you be interested, please also see the attached paper on AI & community well-being. The lead author is my Planet Happiness co-founder.
While I hope the attached PPT is reasonably clear, I’m happy to take any questions or set up a webcall if your interest is especially high. Feel free to contact me directly or discuss more here. We could even set a webinar to have a number of us talk together (if you’re not too fatigued already with so many webinars happening !). The PPT has a concluding slide with feedback questions & to indicate your level of interest to collaborate. If you are inclined, please CLICK HERE to provide your response, however brief it may be. Responses are being compiled in a Google Doc & Spreadsheet and can be amended or adjusted once submitted.
I look forward to hearing from you. Have a great & relaxing weekend.
Best regards, Paul
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Paul Rogers PhD
Co-Founder & Director - Planet Happiness
Email: paul@happycounts.org
- PPT download (pdf) - AI paper download (pdf)
posted to TRINET May 7, 2020
It’s been super interesting following the many contributions & discussions about our global and local predicaments. Here’s a new angle to consider.
I’m pleased to advise Planet Happiness & the Happiness Alliance has been approached by a technology corporate leading the application of artificial intelligence systems. Our conversation is focused upon solutions to the Covid-19 crisis. Following weeks of discussions, we’ve been asked to share the attached PPT with our network to measure interest to partner with us to pilot what might be described as “well-being dashboards”.
In brief:
Our priority is to identify destinations interested to partner in the design of a dashboard that allows (government/NGO) decision-makers to engage with data collated through deployment of the Happiness Index survey; In this approach, the survey will include “extension questions” for takers illustrating, for example, symptoms of psychological, economic or social stress & vulnerability; and, the dashboard will allow users to run policy scenarios to locally address crisis-related issues.
The attached has been sent to a number of destinations and institutions we’re networked with. We are also keen to receive feedback from TriNet members that might have an interest to collaborate with us on pilot sites. If you are interested and would like to share the attached with any DMOs (or government partners) you might be working with, please do. Should you be interested, please also see the attached paper on AI & community well-being. The lead author is my Planet Happiness co-founder.
While I hope the attached PPT is reasonably clear, I’m happy to take any questions or set up a webcall if your interest is especially high. Feel free to contact me directly or discuss more here. We could even set a webinar to have a number of us talk together (if you’re not too fatigued already with so many webinars happening !). The PPT has a concluding slide with feedback questions & to indicate your level of interest to collaborate. If you are inclined, please CLICK HERE to provide your response, however brief it may be. Responses are being compiled in a Google Doc & Spreadsheet and can be amended or adjusted once submitted.
I look forward to hearing from you. Have a great & relaxing weekend.
Best regards, Paul
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Paul Rogers PhD
Co-Founder & Director - Planet Happiness
Email: paul@happycounts.org
- PPT download (pdf) - AI paper download (pdf)
Modeling Events After COVID19 - Research proposal by Kevin Wallace
March 21, 2020 to TRINET-L
Hello dear Trinetters.
I note the threads with reference to ‘post-viral tourism’, ‘the recovery phase’ and ‘scenario planning’ with great interest, and am reaching out to the community for anyone interested in putting their mind to these thorny issues, address current challenges and develop potential responses and applications of practice and theory.
For context, I am a practitioner-researcher in events. I currently practice as an events producer for a city council in Sydney, and am an early career researcher who has recently enrolled for a PhD at UTS in Event Management.
In my professional capacity, I am being asked to consider how to plan my Council’s flagship event here in Sydney which is held in August. If I say that this is a well-established event celebrating Italian culture which normally attracts 120,000 people, you will understand the enormity of this task. As others have noted, trying to predict the state of play in 5 months time is nigh on impossible, and many may feel that even contemplating planning any mass gathering outdoor event at the moment, let alone an event such as this, is nonsensical, potentially irresponsible or even offensive given the impact on so many lives. However, what we do know is that there will be a recovery phase and some point in the future, and that new approaches will indeed be needed to respond to both a changed world and ongoing restrictions and parameters. Current measures are unlikely to be lifted quickly, and any ‘return to normality’ preceded by a lengthy recovery phase which may be stalled or re-set should further outbreaks occur. Developing models, considering innovative approaches and implementing pragmatic strategies will be required.
I accept that such a task may prove to be futile and truly academic (pun fully intended) at this point in time, but if anyone wishes to join me on this particular journey, then please do read on - I have some starter points for discussion.
My current concerns are around the following;
This is an opportunity to transfer or apply existing approaches and solutions, test or try out new or innovative methods, apply revised principles and reset the new normal. I am particularly interested to hear of any examples that could be recommended from research or case studies that may be applicable and relevant across the tourism, hospitality and events sector.
I suspect that continuing this conversation on Trinet will produce lengthy threads that will not be entirely welcome across the membership. If you wish to participate then contact me directly via kevin.wallace@student.uts.edu.au with your contact email, and do feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think would be relevant.
I have been looking at setting up an online forum, but not sure the best way to go with that. Any suggestions on that would be very welcome, or any pointers on any groups/forums that may already be established, then please do let me know. I am looking at this as an opportunity for mutual learning, shared and open research data and collaborative practice.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kevin Wallace - research@culturescape.co.uk
March 21, 2020 to TRINET-L
Hello dear Trinetters.
I note the threads with reference to ‘post-viral tourism’, ‘the recovery phase’ and ‘scenario planning’ with great interest, and am reaching out to the community for anyone interested in putting their mind to these thorny issues, address current challenges and develop potential responses and applications of practice and theory.
For context, I am a practitioner-researcher in events. I currently practice as an events producer for a city council in Sydney, and am an early career researcher who has recently enrolled for a PhD at UTS in Event Management.
In my professional capacity, I am being asked to consider how to plan my Council’s flagship event here in Sydney which is held in August. If I say that this is a well-established event celebrating Italian culture which normally attracts 120,000 people, you will understand the enormity of this task. As others have noted, trying to predict the state of play in 5 months time is nigh on impossible, and many may feel that even contemplating planning any mass gathering outdoor event at the moment, let alone an event such as this, is nonsensical, potentially irresponsible or even offensive given the impact on so many lives. However, what we do know is that there will be a recovery phase and some point in the future, and that new approaches will indeed be needed to respond to both a changed world and ongoing restrictions and parameters. Current measures are unlikely to be lifted quickly, and any ‘return to normality’ preceded by a lengthy recovery phase which may be stalled or re-set should further outbreaks occur. Developing models, considering innovative approaches and implementing pragmatic strategies will be required.
I accept that such a task may prove to be futile and truly academic (pun fully intended) at this point in time, but if anyone wishes to join me on this particular journey, then please do read on - I have some starter points for discussion.
My current concerns are around the following;
- Practical and operational event models – agile, adaptive, scalable and informed. Key considerations include social distancing, capacity limits, facilitating dynamic movement and avoiding static elements, food trading.
- Internal tourism – maintaining cultural identity, traditions and dynamics, the diaspora (particularly Italian)
- External tourism – links to destinations ‘back home’ (particularly Italian), promoting new tourism (what might that look like?), reputation recovery of destinations
- Recovery – community, economic and tourism in an infectious disease context
- Role of digital – how can technology bridge the social distances at events, expand the capacity, contribute to the various elements listed above?
This is an opportunity to transfer or apply existing approaches and solutions, test or try out new or innovative methods, apply revised principles and reset the new normal. I am particularly interested to hear of any examples that could be recommended from research or case studies that may be applicable and relevant across the tourism, hospitality and events sector.
I suspect that continuing this conversation on Trinet will produce lengthy threads that will not be entirely welcome across the membership. If you wish to participate then contact me directly via kevin.wallace@student.uts.edu.au with your contact email, and do feel free to pass this information on to anyone you think would be relevant.
I have been looking at setting up an online forum, but not sure the best way to go with that. Any suggestions on that would be very welcome, or any pointers on any groups/forums that may already be established, then please do let me know. I am looking at this as an opportunity for mutual learning, shared and open research data and collaborative practice.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Kevin Wallace - research@culturescape.co.uk
Survey on COVID-19 and Self Isolation - Maja Turnšek, University of Maribor
March 25, 2020 to TRINET-L
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of my colleague and the lead researcher in this case assoc. prof. Maja Turnšek, Ph.D. University of Maribor, I would kindly ask you to take some time and answer few questions about the current Covid-19 crisis, through the online questioner that can be found on the following link: https://www.1ka.si/a/260866
In this survey Faculty of Tourism and University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies - Turistica, Slovenia joined forces in obtaining a cross section of opinions on these current events and thus, through this prism, analyse the impact on tourism.
The survey is anonymous, the data will be used for research purposes only and presented only via group results in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.
As said, the survey is conducted under supervision of assoc. prof. Maja Turnšek, University of Maribor – all additional questions can be addressed to maja.turnsek@um.si.
We also ask you to forward the survey to friends and acquaintances as much as possible.
Thank you very much and stay healthy!
assoc. prof. Mitja Gorenak Ph.D.
Vice Dean for International relations
Faculty of Tourism, University of Maribor
March 25, 2020 to TRINET-L
Dear colleagues,
On behalf of my colleague and the lead researcher in this case assoc. prof. Maja Turnšek, Ph.D. University of Maribor, I would kindly ask you to take some time and answer few questions about the current Covid-19 crisis, through the online questioner that can be found on the following link: https://www.1ka.si/a/260866
In this survey Faculty of Tourism and University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies - Turistica, Slovenia joined forces in obtaining a cross section of opinions on these current events and thus, through this prism, analyse the impact on tourism.
The survey is anonymous, the data will be used for research purposes only and presented only via group results in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules.
As said, the survey is conducted under supervision of assoc. prof. Maja Turnšek, University of Maribor – all additional questions can be addressed to maja.turnsek@um.si.
We also ask you to forward the survey to friends and acquaintances as much as possible.
Thank you very much and stay healthy!
assoc. prof. Mitja Gorenak Ph.D.
Vice Dean for International relations
Faculty of Tourism, University of Maribor
Survey on COVID-19 Impacts on Research - Mohammad Soliman & Stanislav Ivanov, Varna University of Management
March 19, 2020 to TRINETL-L
Dear colleagues,
I hope this email finds you in good health! Mohammad Soliman and I make a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on research. We kindly ask you to complete this questionnaire:
http://bit.ly/Covid19Research
Please share it with colleagues from your and other universities. Every researcher can complete the questionnaire regardless of his/her field of research.
Thank you in advance! Stay home to stay healthy!
Stan
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Stanislav Ivanov, Ph. D., CHIA
Professor
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Vice Rector (Research)
Varna University of Management
13A Oborishte str., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
March 19, 2020 to TRINETL-L
Dear colleagues,
I hope this email finds you in good health! Mohammad Soliman and I make a survey on the impact of COVID-19 on research. We kindly ask you to complete this questionnaire:
http://bit.ly/Covid19Research
Please share it with colleagues from your and other universities. Every researcher can complete the questionnaire regardless of his/her field of research.
Thank you in advance! Stay home to stay healthy!
Stan
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Stanislav Ivanov, Ph. D., CHIA
Professor
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Vice Rector (Research)
Varna University of Management
13A Oborishte str., 9000 Varna, Bulgaria
On the Value of COVID-19 Research that is Published Too Early - by Geoffrey Crouch
posted to TRINET-L on March 19, 2020
Hello Trinetters,
As Editor of the Journal of Travel Research I would like to make some comments on the conduct, writing and publication of travel and tourism research post-COVID19.
The almost omnipotent and omnipresent effect of COVID19 on travel and tourism worldwide is going to fundamentally affect travel and tourism research from 2020 and beyond. The impact has been so rapid and vast that we might regard the conduct of travel and tourism research as belonging either to the pre- or to the post-COVID19 eras. What will this mean?
The relevance and usefulness of research conducted pre-COVID19 will, in general, have declined and in some cases may now be somewhat obsolete. How we make use of pre-COVID19 research to inform post-COVID 19 research design and conduct must recognize this reality.
It would be appropriate now for researchers who have already collected pre-COVID19 data, but are yet to finalise their analysis and complete the writing of their manuscript, to consider how they may need to address the effect of COVID19 on their interpretations and conclusions for a post-COVID19 travel and tourism world.
For research involving the collection of data during much of 2020, when circumstances are changing so rapidly and fundamentally, this is a very tricky time for travel and tourism researchers. As we are seeing, even the events of a single day are dramatically reshaping the global travel and tourism environment. So, depending on the research topic, aim and objectives, unless the data is a snapshot in time, what sense is one to give to its analysis and interpretation? For example, research dealing with aspects of the psychology of tourism consumer behaviour cannot ignore how tourism consumers are seeing the world differently on a daily basis. The design, analysis and writing of such research must not pretend this seismic change is irrelevant.
Just as the emergence of the sharing economy has produced, in the last few years, a sizable wave of related travel, tourism and hospitality research, it is clear that there will soon emerge a tsunami of COVID19-related travel and tourism research. This will be totally appropriate, understandable and relevant. However, while it might be useful to see some research which measures and describes the effect of COVID19 on travel and tourism worldwide in order to set the scene for research on particular issues going forward, I suspect there is likely to be an overabundance of such repetitive, descriptive research – particularly research which analyses COVID19’s impact on travel and tourism in various countries or regions. JTR would be interested in publishing only a portion of the best of such research. In many cases, authors might be better to seek publication of such research in journals with a distinct regional or national focus. So when researchers are thinking about potential post-COVID19 research topics, it would be most helpful if they reflected on this likelihood so that a) certain topics are not over-researched, and b) the research is not merely descriptive (the what) but is also explanatory (the why) and prescriptive (the how) thereby contributing to theory.
The Journal of Travel Research emphasizes five principal criteria when determining whether a manuscript is suitable for publication, as follows:
1. Relevant - the manuscript must be directly relevant to the stated aims and scope of the journal.
2. Significant - the subject and outcomes of the research much make a significant important, and valuable contribution to travel and tourism knowledge and theory.
3. Original - the research must be original, new, and leading-edge. Where a manuscript adds little to existing knowledge on a topic, JTR is not the right journal.
4. Rigorous - the research design and methodology must be of a very high standard.
5. Articulate - the manuscript must achieve a very high standard of English grammar and expression, and must communicate all important aspects of the research in a very clear manner.
I wish everyone the best of health and good fortune conducting travel and tourism research during this most challenging period.
Geoffrey
EMERITUS PROFESSOR GEOFFREY I. CROUCH, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Tourism Policy and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia
Editor of the Journal of Travel Research
Email: geoffrey.crouch@latrobe.edu.au
Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism
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As a follow-on to his statement above, Dr. Crouch posted the following new policy for the Journal of Travel Research on TRINET on April 30, 2020
1.4 Coronavirus (COVID-19) requirements for manuscripts
The almost omnipotent and omnipresent effect of COVID-19 on travel and tourism worldwide has fundamentally affected travel and tourism research. Inevitably there must therefore be a significant impact on the way in which travel and tourism research is conducted and reported. Consequently, manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Travel Research must not ignore the effect of COVID-19. For this reason, JTR has introduced some requirements which authors must address before submitting their manuscript. Please carefully read the following requirements, which come into effect after April 30, 2020, and ensure you have addressed these appropriately:
posted to TRINET-L on March 19, 2020
Hello Trinetters,
As Editor of the Journal of Travel Research I would like to make some comments on the conduct, writing and publication of travel and tourism research post-COVID19.
The almost omnipotent and omnipresent effect of COVID19 on travel and tourism worldwide is going to fundamentally affect travel and tourism research from 2020 and beyond. The impact has been so rapid and vast that we might regard the conduct of travel and tourism research as belonging either to the pre- or to the post-COVID19 eras. What will this mean?
The relevance and usefulness of research conducted pre-COVID19 will, in general, have declined and in some cases may now be somewhat obsolete. How we make use of pre-COVID19 research to inform post-COVID 19 research design and conduct must recognize this reality.
It would be appropriate now for researchers who have already collected pre-COVID19 data, but are yet to finalise their analysis and complete the writing of their manuscript, to consider how they may need to address the effect of COVID19 on their interpretations and conclusions for a post-COVID19 travel and tourism world.
For research involving the collection of data during much of 2020, when circumstances are changing so rapidly and fundamentally, this is a very tricky time for travel and tourism researchers. As we are seeing, even the events of a single day are dramatically reshaping the global travel and tourism environment. So, depending on the research topic, aim and objectives, unless the data is a snapshot in time, what sense is one to give to its analysis and interpretation? For example, research dealing with aspects of the psychology of tourism consumer behaviour cannot ignore how tourism consumers are seeing the world differently on a daily basis. The design, analysis and writing of such research must not pretend this seismic change is irrelevant.
Just as the emergence of the sharing economy has produced, in the last few years, a sizable wave of related travel, tourism and hospitality research, it is clear that there will soon emerge a tsunami of COVID19-related travel and tourism research. This will be totally appropriate, understandable and relevant. However, while it might be useful to see some research which measures and describes the effect of COVID19 on travel and tourism worldwide in order to set the scene for research on particular issues going forward, I suspect there is likely to be an overabundance of such repetitive, descriptive research – particularly research which analyses COVID19’s impact on travel and tourism in various countries or regions. JTR would be interested in publishing only a portion of the best of such research. In many cases, authors might be better to seek publication of such research in journals with a distinct regional or national focus. So when researchers are thinking about potential post-COVID19 research topics, it would be most helpful if they reflected on this likelihood so that a) certain topics are not over-researched, and b) the research is not merely descriptive (the what) but is also explanatory (the why) and prescriptive (the how) thereby contributing to theory.
The Journal of Travel Research emphasizes five principal criteria when determining whether a manuscript is suitable for publication, as follows:
1. Relevant - the manuscript must be directly relevant to the stated aims and scope of the journal.
2. Significant - the subject and outcomes of the research much make a significant important, and valuable contribution to travel and tourism knowledge and theory.
3. Original - the research must be original, new, and leading-edge. Where a manuscript adds little to existing knowledge on a topic, JTR is not the right journal.
4. Rigorous - the research design and methodology must be of a very high standard.
5. Articulate - the manuscript must achieve a very high standard of English grammar and expression, and must communicate all important aspects of the research in a very clear manner.
I wish everyone the best of health and good fortune conducting travel and tourism research during this most challenging period.
Geoffrey
EMERITUS PROFESSOR GEOFFREY I. CROUCH, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Tourism Policy and Marketing, La Trobe University, Australia
Editor of the Journal of Travel Research
Email: geoffrey.crouch@latrobe.edu.au
Fellow of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism
==================
As a follow-on to his statement above, Dr. Crouch posted the following new policy for the Journal of Travel Research on TRINET on April 30, 2020
1.4 Coronavirus (COVID-19) requirements for manuscripts
The almost omnipotent and omnipresent effect of COVID-19 on travel and tourism worldwide has fundamentally affected travel and tourism research. Inevitably there must therefore be a significant impact on the way in which travel and tourism research is conducted and reported. Consequently, manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Travel Research must not ignore the effect of COVID-19. For this reason, JTR has introduced some requirements which authors must address before submitting their manuscript. Please carefully read the following requirements, which come into effect after April 30, 2020, and ensure you have addressed these appropriately:
- The relevance and usefulness of research conducted pre-COVID-19 will, in general, have declined and in some cases may now be somewhat obsolete. How we make use of pre-COVID-19 research to inform post-COVID-19 research design and conduct must recognize this reality. A thorough review of the relevant literature is, of course, still required. But authors must now acknowledge and discuss the relevance and usefulness of this earlier research in light of COVID-19 developments.
- Researchers who have already collected or used pre-COVID-19 primary data (for this purpose, the date of January 31, 2020 or earlier is deemed appropriate), but are yet to finalise their analysis and complete the writing of their manuscript, must consider how they may need to address the effect of COVID-19 on their interpretations and conclusions for a post-COVID-19 travel and tourism world.
- For research involving the collection of data in part or in whole after January 31, 2020, depending on the research topic, aim and objectives, data that has been collected over time, during dramatically changing circumstances, will be difficult to analyse and interpret leading to potentially false assumptions and erroneous conclusions. For example, research dealing with aspects of the psychology of tourism consumer behaviour cannot ignore how tourism consumers are seeing the world differently on a daily basis. The design, analysis and writing of such research must not pretend this seismic change is irrelevant. Because research topics and circumstances vary so widely, it is not possible to provide prescriptive advice on how researchers must address these challenges, suffice to say that manuscript reviewers will want to clearly see and understand that authors have convincingly addressed such issues in their manuscripts.
- Given the profound effect of COVID-19 on travel and tourism, it is clear that there will soon emerge a tsunami of COVID19-related travel and tourism research. This, of course, will be totally appropriate. We already know the effect globally, nationally and regionally is enormous. Descriptive research which simply confirms what is already largely known is not very useful. Additionally, such descriptive research conducted prematurely while the pandemic is still changing the global travel and tourism environment is likely to be of quite limited value when findings will have only a short ‘shelf-life’. Waiting for the ‘dust to settle’ more before such measurement work is undertaken may be more sensible. While it might be useful to see some limited research which measures and describes the effect of COVID-19 on travel and tourism worldwide in order to set the scene for research on particular issues going forward, there is likely to be an overabundance of such repetitive, descriptive research – particularly research which describes COVID-19’s impact on travel and tourism in various countries or regions. JTR would be interested in publishing only a small portion of the best of such research. In many cases, authors might be better to seek publication of such research in journals with a distinct regional or national focus. Hence, when researchers are thinking about potential post-COVID-19 research topics, it would be most helpful if they reflected on this likelihood so that a) certain topics are not over-researched, and b) the research is not merely descriptive (the what) but is also explanatory (the why) and prescriptive (the how) thereby contributing to theory.