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 approaches, contents and tools to analyse the tourism effects on the territories, and to plan sustainable territorial actions. Economic, Cultural, Social and Environmental Geography are the keys to Sustainable Tourism Development.

The course will develop the following topics:

HUMAN-CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM

• Geography: contents, methods, analytical and systemic approach
• Culture, landscape, human activities, UNESCO
• Heritage: tools for the local development
• Immages e stereotipes

GEOPOLITICS AND TOURISM

• Geopolitics of tourism: borders and wars
• Tourism and Geopolitical sustainability
• The geographical space for the movement of people: aspects, characteristics, perception

DEVELOPMENT GEOGRAPHY AND TOURISM

• Tourism sustainability and underdevelopment
• Environment and sustainability: land and water grabbing
• Social sustainability: overtourism, sex tourism, exclusion, human rights
• Tourist Carrying Capacity - TCC

POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY FOR TOURISM

• Territory Promotion and marketing
• Policies for tourism
• Urban and Rural: fragmentation, regeneration, promotion

Study 4 TEXTBOOKS:

(A) Nelson V. An introduction to the Geography of Tourism (third edition), Rowman & Littlefield, Lanhan, Maryland, 2021 [ch. 8-14]

(A) Condevaux A., Gravari-Barbas M., Guinand S. (eds.), Tourism dynamics in everyday places. Before and after tourism, Routledge, London, 2021

(A) Pezzi M. G., et. al., Agritourism, wine tourism and craft beer tourism. Local responses to peripherality through tourism niches, Routledge, London, 2022 [no ch. 5, 8, 9, 10]

(A) One text to chose between:

Neef. A, Tourism, land grabs and displacement. The darker side of the feel-good industry, Routledge, London, 2023 [no ch. 2, 3]

Saarinen J., Rogerson J.M (eds.), Tourism, change and the global South, Routledge, London, 2021 [no ch. 7, 9, 13, 14]

ESSAYS (PDF online):

• 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]
• An N., Dittmer J., The Geopolitics of Tourism in the Indo-Pacific, Geopolitics, 2023, vol. 28, n. 4 [pp.1405–1421]
• Cañada E. (ed.), Tourism in the geopolitics of the Mediterranean, Contrast Reports Serie, 2019, no. 9 [paragraphs pp. 41, 46, 51, 58, 70, 81]
• 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]
• Fu B., Promoting Geography for Sustainability, Geography and Sustainability, 2020, vol. 1 [pp. 1-7]
• 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]
• 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]

Additional materials will be provided and uploaded in the professor's personal web page

• • Dialogued lessons
  • Analysis of case studies
  • Development of works and projects in small groups

  
  

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

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