the future of tourism….

There has been a lot in the news lately, here in the UK, about Carbon Footprints. Particularly our day to day activities and the amount of Carbon they pump into the environment. One of the biggest impactors on this is air travel. One thing occurred to me that what if…..restrictions were placed on air travel or some twist on this concept. How would this effect tourism in those far-to-reach places that, more than likely, place a big reliance on tourism to generate income. Here I am thinking of places like Australia and NewZealand in relation to Europe. If, for some reason, it was not possible to travel by plane to these countries, what would be the impact?

More importantly what thought has been given to these types of extreme situations in contingency planning for the future. Asking this type of question can often be quite useful in formulating innovative strategies and products that have some relevance even now. How can we replace the lost revenue?
On the other side of this is what options are available to cruise liners? They would certainly have something to gain should some form of backlash occur against air travel, particularly as they don’t seem to figure in peoples thinking on this subject……

welcome to my blog

My first post….maybe my last….

Not going to spend too much time thinking through what I am putting on here because I want this to be an outlet for my thinking. Generally that thinking will have something vague to do with innovation (processes, techniques, ideas). I am not saying that I am anywhere near an expert on the subject but unless I start putting ideas and thoughts out there how do I know if there is any substance to them.

A lot of what goes up on here will probably be wrong or a mistake but that’s the best way to learn isn’t it?

The other thing I do is write code and run a small team of developers, unfortunately running the team doesn’t really allow me a great deal of time, other than personal time, to write much code. Very frustrating. So one way I look to use innovation is to try and give me back some of my work day so I can get back to writing code. How do I achieve this? I am still working on it but I will share with you how I get on in trying different techniques and methods to remove the day to day admin work which gets in the way of codeing.

About the team….a group of young, enthusiastic coders who are not the most experienced but who definitely make up for this with a willingness to learn and take on new challenges. Part of my role is to try and give them the knowledge and space to develop with both guidance and tasks that stretch their capabilities.

What is it they say

‘Necessity is the mother of invention’

how true. When your back is against the wall, time, resources, and people are working against you, how do you get the job done?

People are the biggest asset we have. What I am trying to do is give them the skills and the freedom to achieve the goals laid down by the organisation and by ourselves. This is where the creativity and innovation stream comes into play. How creative are the people you and I work with and how to teach them the creatvie skills necessary to produce the goods that WOW.

Welcome to my journey and I hope you will tag along to see how it goes. Please let me know if you have any little tricks or methods that you may have used to help the people around you learn to be creative and achieve fantastic results.