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

The course provides specific contents and tools to analyse the Geography of Tourism effects and to plan sustainable territorial actions. Economic, Cultural, Social and Environmental Geography are the keys to Sustainable Tourism Development.

• Culture, landscape, human activities, UNESCO
• Immages e stereotipes
• Environment and sustainability: land and water grabbing
• Tourist Carrying Capacity - TCC
• Territory Promotion and marketing
• Policies for tourism
• Social sustainability: overtourism, sex tourism, exclusion, human rights
• Urban and Rural: fragmentation, restoration, promotion
• Heritage: tools for the local development

BOOK. Choose ONE between...:

(A) Pezzi M. G., Faggiani A., Reid N., Agritourism, wine tourism and craft beer tourism. Local responses to peripherality through tourism niches, Routledge, 2022 [except chapters 5, 8, 9, 10] or

(A) Neef. A, Tourism, Land Grabs and Displacement. The Darker Side of the Feel-Good Industry, Routledge, 2023 [except chapters 2, 3]

ESSAYS. Study the following (PDF online):

Fu B., Promoting Geography for Sustainability, Geography and Sustainability, 2020, vol. 1 [pp. 1-7]

Csapó J., The Role and Importance of Cultural Tourism in Modern Tourism Industry, in Kasimoglu M. (ed.), Strategies for Tourism Industry - Micro and Macro Perspectives, 2012, [pp. 201-232]

Gonia A., Jezierska-Thöle A., Sustainable Tourism in Cities. Nature Reserves as a ‘New’ City Space for Nature-Based Tourism, Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, n. 1581 [pp. 1-21]

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. Specific individual and group projects may also be evaluated for students attending the course.

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