Radical modernization of the tourism industry is needed

We’ve to do something entirely different. The average tourist has been here several times but still we don’t know the people.

There is an urgent need to move into something that is completely new. Traditional tourism doesn’t work anymore.

We need a new kind of genius to move us from traditional tourism towards something that is entirely new.

Traditional attractions will still remain, but we’ve seen it so many times in so many other industries that the old big names are becoming history and the same will happen within tourism during the coming years.

Think about “ruotsinlaivat” – that was a big industry for several decades. Now, a trip to Sweden is commodity. Nobody buzzes about it. What did happen? Tax Free isn’t an incentive anymore. The same will happen with travels to Estonia from Finland. 

Virtual Work and Off-line Meetings

Kellypuffs writes in her Twitter, “Looks like a day of meeting hell, just when I wanted to actually accomplish something.”

There are those days when meetings eat our work time and creativity. The virtualization of cooperation isn't yet what it could be. The coffee and sandwich meeting still has a value, but we still spen a lot of un-necessary time in meetings with very low value.

VE-Forum

What can we learn from learning organizations and virtual organizations? There is much more going on than one could expect. Still, however, virtual organizations is not a very visible and loud speaking crowd. We find them in forums and development centres. There is a silent movement towards new organizational models.

Welcome to VE-Forum, the open forum for all who are active or interested in the field of networks and virtual organizations. Similarly to an antique forum we offer a place and resources to meet, exchange and develop new ideas. Interest groups, projects, conferences, other communities, but especially you as individual are invited to use this forum.

If you have questions, follow the links on the left side, or just contact us...

Helge: Great, I'm collaborating in an Enterprise 2.0 book writing project in Finland. All things virtual are of interest for me. Living Labs is a part of VE. What else is familiar?

20/06/2007 Living Labs are expected to facilitate innovative processes in Europe’s knowledge-based economy. Starting with an idea the user and user communities contribute to and co-create a new product or service. Living Labs offer collaboration systems for knowledge workers, network management systems, and productive...

I continue to read, moving my interest to eJOV: "The eJOV Journal has been designed as a platform for publishing theoretical and empirical research related to virtual organizations and networks. By linking with VE-Forum, eJOV hopes to inspire discussion and new ideas for research and application, which might in turn lead to interesting publications."

The home page talks about dynamic virtual organizations:

European Commission Sixth framework programme Project

ECOLEAD vision: “In ten years, in response to fast changing market conditions, most enterprises and specially the SMEs will be part of some sustainable collaborative networks that will act as breeding environments for the formation of dynamic virtual organizations.”

Let's take a look at the visitors map:

Location	Time
Grafing, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:30:18 -0500
Kajaani, Finland	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 06:26:26 -0500
Konstanz, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:52:59 -0500
Pune, India	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:45:25 -0500
Rotkreuz, Switzerland	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:36:45 -0500
Bühlhof, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 05:05:20 -0500
, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:56:41 -0500
Rotkreuz, Switzerland	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:51:34 -0500
Singen, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:45:04 -0500
Konstanz, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:43:30 -0500
Karlsruhe, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:39:53 -0500
Leiden, Netherlands	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:36:23 -0500
, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:22:04 -0500
Kuittila, Finland	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:04:59 -0500
Doberatsweiler, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 04:00:42 -0500
Sevilla, Spain	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:54:56 -0500
Marzahn, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:33:54 -0500
Winterlingen, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:22:54 -0500
Sulzbach, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:15:05 -0500
Rakov Potok, Croatia	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:05:51 -0500
Muenster, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 03:02:40 -0500
Konstanz, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 02:16:49 -0500
München, Germany	Tue, 03 Jul 2007 01:35:01 -0500
Bethany, CT, United States	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 22:42:46 -0500
Aach, Germany	Mon, 02 Jul 2007 16:36:35 -0500