Roland Schegg, Institute of Tourism, HES-SO Valais, Switzerland. Research interests eTourism and tourism. http://t.co/zVl9A1ca / http://t.co/M8jxkljQ
Sierre, Switzerland
Joined December 2011
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Prix Montagne 2025: Die sechs Nominierten stehen fest
Die Jury hat sechs Projekte aus dem #Berggebiet für den Prix Montagne 2025 nominiert. Der Preis ist mit 40 000 Franken dotiert und wird jährlich von der #SAB und der Schweizer Berghilfe verliehen.
urlz.fr/uFFI
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Two centuries of unequal exchanges
To better understand the issues at stake, the World Inequality Lab recently published a historical study on global trade and financial imbalances since 1800
lemonde.fr/blog/piketty/2025…
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Another reminder that “15-Minute Cities” isn’t a new idea. It’s skilled packaging of an idea that’s been around for a LONG time.
It’s been called “city of short distances.” I used to call it “The Power of Nearness.” MANY names.
More things close by. Less car dependency. More CHOICE.
Common sense.
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Why is @Google making changes to its hotel search again? In the latest episode of #FromTheDesk @TobiasWarnecke explains what further changes Google is proposing to comply with #DMA regulations and the negative effects on #hotels. 👇
youtube.com/watch?v=SF_iDnYg…
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Um die Wohnungsnot zu mildern, wollte Interlaken nach Luzerner Vorbild die Plattform einschränken. Doch die Initiative dürfte kaum je umgesetzt werden. tagesanzeiger.ch/interlaken-…
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ChatGPT nous rend-il idiots et hyper paresseux? l.letemps.ch/hS8
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Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media.
This was the largest study on emotional health in history.
The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy."
Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm:
🧵
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BREAKING: Stanford just surveyed 1,500 workers and AI experts about which jobs AI will actually replace and automate.
Turns out, we've been building AI for all the WRONG jobs.
Here's what they discovered:
(hint: the "AI takeover" is happening backwards)
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Saison d’hiver toujours très réussie pour les remontées mécaniques | @scoopit sco.lt/8GasTY
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The Hamburg DPA is urging EU users who don't want their personal data fed into Meta's AI technologies to "take action now" and has compiled a Q&A to guide them through the process. Meta announced its intent to restart this process earlier this week.
datenschutz-hamburg.de/news/…
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Want to increase your citation count on Google Scholar?
You can simply buy citations in bulk.
NYU researchers created a fake Google Scholar profile, generated AI papers, uploaded them to pre-print servers, and bought 50 citations for those papers.
ALT A screenshot of a paper titled, "Google Scholar is manipulatable."
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🚨 How much can we really trust online reviews? 🚨
📉 66% of European consumers encounter #FakeReviews, misleading users & harming honest businesses.
Let’s protect trust, transparency & fair play in hospitality. 🛎️💬
Join us & say NO to deception. Use #StopFakeReviews 💥
📢 Share & spread the word!
In Europe, over 6 in 10 consumers have faced fake reviews in the past year. These distort competition & hurt honest businesses.
HOTREC supports our Italian member FIPE's call to #StopFakeReviews. Let’s protect trust, transparency & fair play in hospitality.
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Biggest flaw of AI apps: hallucinations — fake references to papers that don't even exist.
Research Flow is a new app that solves this problem. It uses full text of papers to answer your questions.
Here's an overview of its features:
Roland Schegg retweeted
In Europe, over 6 in 10 consumers have faced fake reviews in the past year. These distort competition & hurt honest businesses.
HOTREC supports our Italian member FIPE's call to #StopFakeReviews. Let’s protect trust, transparency & fair play in hospitality.
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"Google has not sufficiently fulfilled its #DMA obligations and must improve the presentation of its own services. It is encouraging to see that the @EU_Commission is sticking to its consistent line in favour of more competition on online portal markets!"
Statement von Otto Lindner, Vorsitzender @hotellerie_de, zur vorläufigen Feststellung der @EU_Commission eines #DMA-Verstoßes durch Google
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Un concept vraiment original pour faire découvrir ou re-découvrir l'#art au grand public🖼️🎨😍
@tourobs #Tourisme #musée @RolandSchegg
🎨#Porrentruy met l’art à l’honneur ! Avec «L’art ici et là», la ville invite à (re)découvrir ses musées et artistes, mais aussi à dormir dans des chambres d’art transformées en micro-musées.
📅 Portes ouvertes: samedi 15 mars, 13h-17h
ℹ️ Plus d’infos 👉larticietla.ch
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Le Prix Montagne 2025 est lancé.
Dès maintenant, et jusqu’au 30 avril, les projets qui contribuent idéalement à la création de valeur ajoutée dans les régions de #montagne peuvent être déposés sur prixmontagne.ch.
urlz.fr/ui0f
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Mobility is a complex phenomenon.
But the basic math is relatively simple!
Similar space required to park 70 🚗 vs. 1.000 🚲 at #Eindhoven Station.
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OpenAI is asking the Trump administration to make clear it can train AI models on copyrighted materials cnbc.com/2025/03/13/openai-l…
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Les #CFF étudient l’acquisition de max. 40 trains à grande vitesse 🚄Livraison dans les années 2030 pour le trafic vers l’Italie et la France, et éventuellement pour d’autres destinations (Barcelone? Londres?) 🇨🇭🇮🇹🇫🇷🇪🇸🇬🇧news.sbb.ch/fr/medias/articl…