75702 - Geography of Sustainable Tourism

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Moduli: Alessia Mariotti (Modulo 1) Filippo Pistocchi (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Economics of Tourism (cod. 8847)

Learning outcomes

The course aim is to introduce students to the definition and characteristics of the tourism phenomenon, to explain the role of tourism in shaping urban and rural development at the regional, national and international scale. Core of the course is the concept of sustainability and its application to tourism attitudes and practices. At the end of the course the student should be able to interpret the evolution and organization of tourism in space, understanding the policies and strategies for enhancing sustainability in tourism products

Course contents

Module 1

Tourism, development and sustainability

  • Development as a concept
  • Tourism: definitions (motivations, tiplogies, consumption)
  • Tourism and sustainability (international charts)

Tourism, geography and local development

  • Tourism and territorial impacts (elements and indicators)
  • Tourism and territorial impacts (when tourism is a driver for development)

Tourism modeling 

  • Static models
  • Dynamic models
  • Evolutional models

 

Module 2

Current issues in tourism geography

  • Images and stereotypes
  • Marketing and promotion through images
  • Tourism policies
  • Tourism, development and underdevelopment: international case studies
  • Tourism, sustainability and environment: land and water grabbing
  • Tourism and geopolitics: borders, wars and frontiers
  • Tourism and social sustainability: over and under tourism, sex tourism and negative tourism impacts
  • Between urban and rural: human spaces
  • Human spaces and tourism sustainability: urban tourism, cultural tourism and sustainability; rural tourism and new cultural tourism products

Readings/Bibliography

Module 1

Lorenzo Bagnoli, Manuale di geografia del turismo. Dal Grand Tour al Piano strategico, Torino, UTET, 2018. Fourth edition. Paragraphs 1.3, 1.4, 2.2, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and chapter 4.

Filippo Bencardino, Maria Prezioso, “Geografia del turismo", Milano, Mc Graw-Hill, 2007. Esclusivamente i capitoli 2 e 4.

A. Vallega, La regione sistema territoriale sostenibile, Milano, Mursia, 1995. Chapter 4

J-M. Dewailly, E. Flament, Geografia del turismo, Bologna, CLUEB, 1996. Paragraph. 1.1 and Chapter 7

Module 2

Borghi B., Celata F., Turismo critico. Immaginari geografici, performance e paradossi sulle rotte del turismo alternativo, Unicopli, Milano, 2009

Teaching methods

Lectures 80%

Exercises 20%

Assessment methods

The evaluation consists in a compulsory written exam lasting 60 minutes and organized in three open questions. To pass the exam, the student should demonstrate on one side to have reached the learning outcomes and on the other to be able to use the concepts learnd during the course, applying them to the analysis of the relationships between tourism and local territorial systems. Out of topic answers will not be evaluated. To pass the exam the student has to answer to all the questions. During the exam, the students are allowed to have on them only stationary and an identity card or document. Paper will be distributed by the teacher. The questions will be simultaneously given at the beginning of the exam (if necessary through a PPT). In the first five minutes students not feeling able to give proper answers to the questions are allowed to leave the exam. Each answer will be evaluated in 30 points, the final mark consist in the average of the three evaluation (0,5 point will be round up to the next point). Registration for the exam is compulsory, and students have to register through AlmaEsami [https://almaesami.unibo.it/almaesami/welcome.htm] according to the general rules of the School.

Teaching tools

Several seminars, also held in english will complete the teaching module

Office hours

See the website of Alessia Mariotti

See the website of Filippo Pistocchi

SDGs

Sustainable cities Responsible consumption and production Climate Action

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.