TOURISM GEOGRAPHY

M-GGR/02 - 9 CFU - 2° Semester

Teaching Staff

CATERINA CIRELLI


Learning Objectives

General Objectives of teaching in terms of expe-cted results of learning

1. Knowledge and understanding: The student will acquire specific skills in the field of economic geography of tourism which allow him to understand the dynamics of tourist markets and companies operating in the tourist sector, by testing their impact on the territory.

2. Applying knowledge and understanding: the student will be able to apply the analytical and conceptual tools of the geography of tourism in the fields of territorial programming, planning and management. In addition to this, the student will be able to use the tools of analysis and design of field projects in order to promote the development of products and itineraries with the support of appropriate technological instruments such as GIS and other softwares.

3. Making judgments: the student will be able to collect, process and interpret quantitative and qualitative data, aimed at the evaluation of tourism systems and the impact of tourism in the context of sustainability. The student can then systematically organize these assessments in an articulated reflection on specific local situations.

4. Communication skills: The student will be able to transfer to others, with a full command of technical language, information and assessments about tourism systems and related local economic contexts.

5. Learning skills: after a gradual learning process coherent with the master’s degree course, at the end of the lectures the student will have acquired the necessary knowledge to deepen and integrate the skills and knowledge already achieved during the firt study cycle with the specific skills of tourism geography.

 

 



Detailed Course Content

Topics

Reference text

1. *General topics of Geography of Tourism: the relationship between tourism and territory

 

Text 1: chapters 1-2-3

*2. Local tourist supply systems and tourist policies

 

Text 1: chapters 4-5

3. *Tourist districts

Text 1: chapter 6

4. * Cultural heritage

Text 1: chapter 7

5. *Tourist marketing and destination branding

text 1: chapter 8

6. *Tourism as a cohesion factor

text 1: chapter 9

7. seminar

provided after the seminar

8. seminar

provided after the seminar

9. fieldwork (3 h. long)

location to be chosen

10. *Ecotourism: italian case studies

text 2: chapters 4,5,7

11. *rural and mountain tourism

text 2: chapter 11

12. *cultural tourism

text 2: chapter 10,13

13. *Sport tourism

text 2: chapter 14

14: *food and wine tourism

text 2: chapter 3,8

15: *Tourism in Sicily, case studies

text 2: chapters 1-2

16. seminar

provided after the seminar

17 seminar

provided after the seminar

18. fieldwork (3 h long)

location to be chosen

19: *Introduction to film-induced tourism: Cinema and Geography

text 3: chapter 1

20. *Cinema and territory

text 3: chapter 2

21. *cinematic places: the location

Text 3: chapter 3

22. *cinema as a tool of territorial marketing

text 3: chapter 4

23. *International case studies

text 3: chapters 3-5

24. *Cinema and film tourism in Sicily

text 3: chapters 6,7,8,9,10

25. Seminar

provided after the seminar

26. Seminar

provided after the seminar

27. Fieldwork (3 h long)

location to be chosen

28. Fieldwork (3h long)

location to be chosen



Textbook Information

1. Bencardino F., Prezioso M., Geografia del turismo, MacGraw Hill, Milano, 2007

2. Cannizzaro S., Per una Geografia del Turismo, Patron, Bologna, 2011

3. Nicosia E., Cineturismo e territorio, Patron, Bologna, 2012

4. Cusimano G., Il turismo nelle/delle destinazioni, Patron, Bologna, 2015




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