Observation and listening skills. Favourable attitude for interdisciplinary study and discussion. Availability and use of an atlas or a PC/device

The course provides a specific approach (tools and contents) to the Geography of Tourism, with the aim to analyze the territorial processes related to tourism and sustainability.

In particular, the course will discuss the interconnections between Geography of Tourism and Geopolitics (underdevelopment, insecurity).

• Geography: contents, methods, analytical and systemic approach

• Tourism and Geopolitical sustainability: borders and wars

• Tourism sustainability and underdevelopment

• The geographical space for the movement of people: aspects, characteristics, perception

BOOK:

(A) Nelson V. An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism (third edition), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanhan, Maryland, 2021 (Chapters: 1, 2, 7, 9, 10, 11, 14)

ESSAYS. Study the following (PDF online):

Iaquintoa B. L., Gillenb J., and Mostafanezhadc M., The new tourism geopolitics: bridging tourism, geographies and political geography, Tourism Geographies, 2024, vol. 26, n. 5, [pp. 723-734]

Ajala O. A., Aliu I. R., Tourism and integrated development: A geographic perspective, Malaysia Journal of Society and Space, 2013, vol. 9 issue 1 [pp. 118-128]

Cañada E. (ed.), Tourism in the geopolitics of the Mediterranean, Contrast Reports Serie, 2019, no. 9 [paragraphs pp. 41, 46, 51, 58, 70, 81]

An N., Dittmer J., The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific, Geopolitics, 2023, vol. 28, n. 4 [pp.1405–1421]

Any additional materials will be provided and uploaded in the professor's personal web page.

• • Dialogued lectures
  • Analysis of case studies
  • Trainings and Tutorials in small and medium groups

• Oral exam, that will be evaluated based on the correctness and the completeness of the informations, knowledge, mastery of the specific geography language.

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