- Docente: Patrizia Battilani
- Credits: 4
- SSD: SECS-P/12
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Economics and management of Tourism (cod. 0912)
Learning outcomes
The student shall have a deep knowledge concerning the evolution of the concept of heritage and of his relationship with the tourism sector and more in general with the economic one, through the analysis of different heritage valorization strategies during the XXth century and the evaluation of their impacts on tourism and economics.
In general the student will able to define valorization models of material and immaterial heritage and their correspondences in the different regional and international areas and to distinguish between cultural and tourism product in a local development perspective.
Course contents
The following topics will be covered:
1. The
transformations of society and economy in 1970-2010
2. Cultural
tourism during the last 40 years
3. Cultural tourism in Europe:
some case studies
4. Cultural tourism in Italy:
some case studies
5. Cultural tourism and
heritage: differences and similarities
6. Evolution of the heritage
meaning and definition
7. Heritage management: some
case studies in historical perspectives
8. The economic impact of
heritage: some case studies
9. Heritage
interpretation
10. The guidebooks and
the construction of tourist destination image
11. The guides
as cultural mediators
Office hours
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