Organizer

Smart Community Tourism

Email

info@scotwebinars.org

Website

http://www.scotwebinars.org

Date

Dec 11 2021

Expired!

Time

New York time

10:00 am - 11:30 am

Languages

English

	Duarte B. Morais Welcome remarks
	Bruno Ferreira Moderator
	Jonathan Freeze Panelist
	Annelies Gentile Panelist
	Geetika Agrawal Panelist
	Sash Hickey Panelist
$Alyssa Ramirez is a Partnerships Manager at Airbnb, and North America Lead for the Airbnb Entrepreneurship Academy. Through strategic partnerships and program development, she works to promote sustainable tourism while creating economic and entrepreneurship opportunities for Hosts and communities around the world. She is also an active member and former Global Lead of Juntos, Airbnb\'s Employee Resource Group for Latino and Hispanic employees advancing diversity and inclusion in the workplace. Prior to Airbnb, Alyssa worked in the education nonprofit sector and served as an AmeriCorps Vista at the San Francisco Education Fund. A California native, Alyssa holds a Bachelor of Science in Communications from San Francisco State University and resides in Oakland, California.$	Alyssa Ramirez Panelist
	Tom Baum Panelist
	Catherine Topel Panelist

Local Time

Timezone: America/New_York
Date: Dec 11 2021
Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am

Volume 34

Name: Volume 58
Start: 2024-05-10
End: 2024-05-10

Tourism gig economy in small communities

New forms of temporary, hyper-flexible, employment (i.e., gigs) have become prevalent in many economic sectors. Tourism is at the forefront of this trend with prominent web platforms such as Uber, Airbnb, and ToursByLocals disrupting formal retail monopolies. Advocates highlight the freedom and flexibility afforded by the gig economy, and detractors stress the precarious and undignified character of gig livelihoods. Rural communities have a dire need for innovative livelihood strategies, especially with the onset of COVID19, but implications of the gig economy in small rural host communities remain under-examined. Consequently, this webinar highlights how web platforms, microentrepreneurs and communities are adapting to rapid changes in the tourism gig economy in their interconnected journey towards recovery.