Welcome to cohort 2013!

Well hello and welcome to the New Year. This year we have a cohort of student from MDIS (Management Development Institute of Singapore), SCU students studying on-campus at Riverside at Tweed Gold Coast, and a scattered group of students studying by distance education. Of course, it's technology that makes all this feasible. Warm welcome to you all.

To get started, you can read our unit information guide, available on our ISY00244 MySCU page, under "Unit Overview".

Here's a photo of myself: as you can see, I'm ready to go! I hope you are too.

Welcome cohort 2012

Hello students from Southern Cross University (Australia), Naresuan University Bangkok City Campus (Thailand) and the Management Development Institute of Singapore. Welcome and be part of our transnational team for the unit ISY00244. My name is Dr Mieke Witsel and I'm the unit coordinator for this unit. Today is Friday 13 January 2012 ... and I'm working from home (see photo of my farmhouse, taken in 1885), using technology to communicate with all of you, all over the world ... I still think it's amazing!!

There are four 'cohorts' this trimester: there is a small group studying internally at Tweed Gold Coast campus (with myself as facilitator); a group of external distance-education students (with myself as facilitator); a group at Naresuan University (with Dr Thotsapon Sortrakul as facilitator) and a group at MDIS in Singapore (with Mr Jonathan Lim as facilitator).

Most of the unit resources can be found in two places: all publicly available material can be accessed here on this blog (follow the labels on the right hand side) and non-publicly accessible material can be found under our university blackboard site, known as MySCU. Your SCU student login will gain you access to our ISY00244 MySCU blackboard site. Having said that, MySCU will be down this weekend for upgrades and will be live again on Monday 16 January.

Your first task is to familiarise yourself with the unit resources and the unit information guide. The unit information guide is available on the MySCU site under ISY00244 > Unit Documents.

Sawasdee ka!

Sawasdee ka! I have arrived in Bangkok and very much look forward to meeting my Naresuan University cohort this evening.

Yesterday I went to visit my favourite temple in Bangkok, the wonderful Wat Po temple. Of course I paid my respects to the Reclining Buddha, and I admired the beautiful murals all around the walls. The beauty and the artistry is incredible.

Welcome cohort 2011

Hello students from Southern Cross University (Australia), Naresuan University Bangkok City Campus (Thailand) and the Management Development Institute of Singapore. Welcome and be part of our transnational team for the unit ISY00244. My name is Dr Mieke Witsel and I'm the unit coordinator for this unit.

There are four 'cohorts' this trimester: there is a group studying internally at Tweed Gold Coast campus (with myself as facilitator); a group of external distance-education students (with myself as facilitator); a small group at Naresuan University (with Dr Thotsapon Sortrakul as facilitator) and a group at MDIS in Singapore (with Mr Jonathan Lim as facilitator).

The unit resources can be found in two places: all publicly available material can be accessed here on this blog (follow the labels on the right hand side) and non-publicly accessible material can be found under our university blackboard site, known as MySCU. Your SCU student login will gain you access to our ISY00244 MySCU blackboard site.

Your first task is to familiarise yourself with the unit resources and the unit information guide. This document is available on the MySCU site under ISYoo244 > Unit Documents.

Cohort 2009

Hello all ISY00244 students out there, wherever you may be living! Wecome to Trimester 2009. I'd like you to respond to this post with some information about yourself. Introduce yourself to your student colleagues, let us know where you are from, what you're studying, what your strengths are in this unit. Let us know a bit about your professional background, too. Please include a note indicating whether you're enrolled with Naresuan, or SCU, and if with SCU whether internal or external.

Welcome to ISY00244 Technological Systems for Hotels, Conventions and Events.

Tourism, hotel, and events management can be described as an ‘information industry’, and, as such, the dynamic relationship between tourism and information technology systems is a vital one. Current interest focuses on the Internet and e-commerce. In this subject we will not only explore the impacts of online technologies, but also look at a range of other information systems, particularly those used ‘in-house’ in the tourism, travel and accommodation sectors, and events industry. There will be a balance between studying management implications and learning about implementation of some common information technology systems.