Works, ideas, and coversations
SPEAKING · 2025
The Future of Work & Free Time in the Age of AI
World Leisure Organization Congress · Breda, Netherlands
What happens when artificial intelligence changes not only how we work, but how much work we need to do?
Presented at the 2025 World Leisure Organization Congress, Joe explored the often-overlooked question of what society will do with increasing amounts of unstructured free time—and why we may need to rethink our relationship with leisure.
FIELD WORK · 2025
Italy Slow Culture Field School
Italy · May 2025
A month-long experiential learning journey exploring slow food, slow travel and slow culture.
Students travelled through Florence, Siena, Sardinia and Rome, combining language, homestays, cultural experiences, field assignments and everyday encounters to explore what it means to be a thoughtful global citizen.
The goal wasn't simply to see Italy. It was to experience it slowly, ask better questions and learn by doing.
WRITING · 2025
Purposeful Travel
Featured in Ways to Go
Joe contributed a chapter to Ways to Go, edited by Bob Henderson and Torbjorn Ydegaard, exploring the idea of purposeful travel and the ways travel can create deeper connections between people and place.
SPEAKING · 2025
Rethinking Overtourism in the Bow Valley
Presentation & Panel Discussion · June 25, 2025
Tourism has become increasingly sophisticated, but many destination communities are struggling to keep pace.
Joe explored overtourism and overdevelopment in Canmore and the Bow Valley, looking beyond the problems to examine how communities are developing creative approaches to managing tourism and protecting the places people come to experience.
CONVERSATION · 2024
The Future of Purposeful Travel
In conversation with Martha Honey · Purposeful Travel Summit
Joe sat down with Martha Honey, Co-Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for Responsible Travel, for a conversation about the evolution of sustainable tourism and where purposeful travel is heading next.
Drawing on more than five decades of experience in responsible tourism, Martha shares insights into the challenges, opportunities and future of more thoughtful travel.
WRITING · 2024
How Overcrowding Impacts the World's Tourism Hotspots
The Conversation · August 1, 2024
What happens when a destination becomes too successful?
Joe examines the growing challenge of overcrowding in popular tourism destinations and the impacts that visitor pressure can have on communities, residents and the places themselves.
MEDIA · 2025
Who Gets to Enjoy the World's Most Popular Places?
CBC News Radio · June 16, 2025
Joe joined CBC to discuss how residents in tourism hotspots around the world are responding to overtourism—and what happens when the places people love to visit become difficult places to live.
PODCAST · 2022
Stories, Identity & Anti-Racism
Mount Royal University Faculty Podcast Initiative
Joe joined a conversation exploring the stories of Black immigrants in Canada, including the history of Black settlement, the impact of racism and ways to more actively practice anti-racism.