78366 - EUROPEAN CULTURAL ROUTES AND TOURISM SYSTEMS

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

At the end of the module students shall be familiar with the concepts of both local development and cultural tourism with a focus on cultural routes as a tool for local development. The course will also provide students with the definition of creative industries, tangible and intangible cultural heritage, tourism clusters and local systems of tourism supply. The international charts and conventions (UNESCO, ICOMOS, CoE, etc.) concerning tourism and cultural heritage as well as the cultural values underpinning them (Outstanding Universal Value/OUV, European Shared Identity) will allow students to deal with territorial/local and regional labels for tourism promotion. Particular attention will be paid to the capability of students in analyzing cultural tourism based products and in designing projects aiming at local development in a transnational perspective.

Contenuti

This is a joint course given by prof. Tamara Ràtz and prof. Alessia Mariotti and is based on traditional lectures.

Tamara Ràtz part (30 hours).

Each meeting is 4 academic hours:

Meeting 1: Basic concepts in tourism and geography

Meeting 2: who is a tourist? A multi-dimensional view

Meeting 3: characterizing the “tourist space” and “tourism mobilities”

Meeting 4: Tourism & the Environment – the economic perspective

Meeting 5: Tourism & the Environment – the environmental perspective

Meeting 6: Tourism & the Environment – the socio-cultural perspective

Meeting 7: Segmenting tourism markets – methods and controversies

Meeting 8: Future trends in tourism geography

Alessia Mariotti's part (15 hours):

Meeting 9: Cultural tourism - definition and dimensions

Meeting 10: Tourism systems - definition and analytical tools

Meeting 11: Connecting culture and tourism - The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Program Part 1: description, dynamics and dimensions

Meeting 12: Connecting culture and tourism - The Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe Program Part 2: planning tools, communication and territorial marketing

Testi/Bibliografia

Articles:

Hall, C. M. (2015) On the mobility of tourism mobilities. Current Issues in Tourism, 18(1), 7-10.

Mansfeld, Y. (1990). Spatial patterns of international tourist flows: towards a theoretical framework. Progress in Human Geography, 14(3), 372-390.

Mansfeld, Y. "From motivation to actual travel." Annals of tourism research19.3 (1992): 399-419.

Pellegrini, G. C. (2011). Geography and Tourism. Almatourism: Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development, 2(4), 1-9.

Books:

Boniface, B. G., & Cooper, C. (2005) World Destinations: The geography of travel and Tourism. Oxford: Elsevier Butterwoth

Hall C. M. & Page S. (2014) The geography of tourism and recreation: environment, place, and space. 3.ed.: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge.

Fair, L. S. (2015) An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism: Velvet Nelson Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.

Wilson, J. (2012) The Routledge handbook of tourism geographies. London: Routledge.

Wilson, J. & Clavé, S. A., (Eds.). (2013) Geographies of Tourism: European Research Perspectives: European Research Perspectives (Vol. 19). UK: Emerald Group Publishing.

Berti E., Penelope D., Mariotti A. (eds) (2015), Cultural Routes management from Theory to Pratice. Step by Step guide to the Council of Europe Cultural Routes, Strasbourg, Council of Europe Publishing (also in French). ISBN 978-92-871-7691-2

Leggere attentamente i paragrafi: 1.1, 1.2, 2.2, 2.3, 3.2, 3.4

Studiare i paragrafi: 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.7

Mariotti, (2013), “Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management: tools, tips and “good to know” for students and practitioners”, in S. Santoro (eds) Skills and tools to the Cultural Heritage and Cultural Tourism Management, Ed. D’Errico, www.chtmbal.com/publications (ISBN: 978-88-97017-06-6).

Robinson M. e Picard D., Tourism, culture and sustainable development, UNESCO, 2006. (DOC n° CLT/CPD/CAD - 06/13)

Metodi didattici

The course will be divided into two conceptual parts. The first 30 hours will be used for making the students comfortable with issues, approaches and methods of Tourism Geography, while in the second part of the course, the focus will be on cultural tourism, European cultural Routes and their relationship with local sustainable development.

Both traditional lectures and fieldworks will be included.

The fieldwork could include a visit to a tourist destination and the meeting with the stakeholders.
A seminar series will also be organized during teaching hours, allowing students to acquire new perspectives from international researchers and experts. This year seminars will be focusing on European projects for tourism development.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The exam is a written test organized in three open questions.

To pass the written 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. 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 of Economics, Management and Statistics.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Traditional lectures will be integrated with practical exercises:

a list of book titles and/or topics will be distributed at the beginning of the course in order to foster the scientific debate among the students

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Alessia Mariotti

Consulta il sito web di Tamara Ràtz