The Ice breaking session

We were asked to meet in the open space in front of the hostel at around 6.30 pm to have an ice breaking session. All participants who reached that day assembled at the ground. Prof. Cantoni and team were ready with their preparations. After a brief introduction, Dr. Silvia asked us to introduce ourselves, mention two world heritage sites and place a pin in the world map. When my turn came I briefed them about Nalanda University, the recently declared monument in the UNESCO list and Taj Mahal one of the wonders of the world. I met Mr. Shri (fullname is quite long hence mentioned as Shri only) from Sri Lanka and Ms. Psuhpita from Indonesia, Ms. Jingjing Lin and Ms. Quenchen from China who represented Asian Continent. After the brief meeting finished we were informed about the schedule for the next week and then dinner was served at the dining hall. It included some kind of breads, meat, vegetable salad and a desert.
The summer school
The sessions briefing was given by Dr. Silvia and Prof. Cantoni well in advance and we all were excited to hear more about the sessions.

Schedule : 7-8 Breakfast, Ist Session 8.30 to 10, break, next session 10.15 to 11.45  break for coffee, re cap by the group, lunch break 1 pm -2.30 pm sessions 2.30 to 4 pm, 4.30 pm to 6 pm  Dinner at 8 Later dinner time changed to 7.30 as some of the participants wanted to have a walk after the dinner. My group included Mr. Wojciech (Poland), Dr. Rafel (Mexico), Dr. Catalin (Hungary) and Dr. Aysegul (Turkey). Prof. Cantoni very well synthesized the concept of tourism communication in ABCDE i.e. Access, Better, Connect, Di sintermediate and Educate, and rightly we got the title of the group as connect---connect the world….


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