No prerequisites in educational field are required.

The aim of the course is to provide students with a comprehensive framework for understanding typologies and potentials of the educational tourism sector, analysed from both the perspective of formal- and informal-education.
The different areas of edu-tourism will be explored in order to identify the educational-touristic potentials of a territory linked to its tangible/intangible cultural resources.

Typologies of educational tourism: tourism for schools and students; cultural tourism; ecotourism; experiential learning oriented tourism for adults and seniors.

• 1.  (A) Brent W. Ritchie Managing Educational Tourism Channel View Books, Clevedon [etc.], 2003
• 2.  (C) J. Haukeland, O. Vistad, K. Daugstad & H. Demark Educational tourism and interpretation Institute of Transport Economics. Norwegian Centre for Transport Research. Working Paper 50369, Oslo, 2013

Further teaching material will be provided during the lessons.

• Lectures will alternate with group exercises. Group exercises will be focused on the planning of a domestic day trip (e.g. for schools, families, seniors, associations etc.) able to promote tourism in the area and, at the same time, to meet the different learning needs of each target. For this purpose, some lessons will take place at the "Paolo and Ornella Ricca" School Museum of the University of Macerata.
  The delivery and teaching methodologies may vary following the ministerial provisions regarding the health emergency.

• The final oral examination will consist in the presentation and discussion of the material produced during the workshop activities. The learning outcomes will be evaluated (for a maximum of 30/30 marks) by the following criteria: correctness and completeness of the acquired knowledge (up to 10 marks) ; communication skills (up to 10 marks); critical elaboration and problem-solving (up to 10 marks).