02726 - Tourism Geography

Learning outcomes

The course aims at providing the students with geographical instruments useful to understand the global tourism as a geographical phenomenon, focussing on its history, the supply/demand issues, the types and fluxes, the territorial infrastructures and the socio-economic but also environmental impacts.

Course contents

The course will deal with the following issues:

• introduction to geography of tourism,
• historical evolution of tourism,
• tourist resources and types,
• alternative and sustainable “tourisms”
• territorial impacts of tourism
• tourist marketing,
• tourist images and “tourist gaze”,
• cultural tourism (with case studies),
• tourism, culture and cross-cultural dialogue: virtual journey into the culture of an African country, through the reading of texts and tourists brochures and with the participation of the students.

Readings/Bibliography

1 book from section 1 and 1 book from section 2:

1.      Choose ONE among the following handbooks

a.      Lemmi E., Dallo “spazio consumato” ai luoghi ritrovati. Verso una geografia del turismo sostenibile, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2009.

b.     Bagnoli L., Manuale di geografia del turismo. Dal Grand Tour ai sistemi turistici, UTET Università, Torino, 2010.

 

2.      Choose ONE among the following books:

Bianchini F., Cipollari C., Magnani E., Notarangelo C., Esperienze nel continente africano: il turismo come strumento di sviluppo sostenibile locale, Roma, CISU, 2009.

Burns P., Holden A., Tourism: a new perspective, London e New York, Prentice Hall, 1995.

Castoldi G., Marketing per il turismo. Dai bisogni dei turisti al prodotto turistico, Milano, Hoepli, 2005.

Cusimano G., Luoghi e turismo culturale, Patron, Bologna, 2006.

Hall C.M., Lew A.A., (eds.), Sustainable tourism: a geographical perspective, New York, Longman, 1998.

Harrison D., Tourism and the less developed world: issues and case studies, Oxford, CAB International, 2001.

Harrison D., Hitchcock M., The politics of world heritage: negotiating tourism and conservation, Clevedon, Channel View, 2005.

Leed E.J.,  La mente del viaggiatore: dall'Odissea al turismo globale, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2007.

Minca C., Oakes T., Travels in paradox: remapping tourism, Lanham, Md.,  Rowman & Littlefield, 2006.

Minca C., Spazi effimeri: geografia e turismo tra moderno e postmoderno, Padova : CEDAM, 1996.

Patin V., Tourisme et patrimoine, La Documentation Française, Paris, 2005.

Price M. F. (eds.), People and tourism in fragile environments, Chichester, John Wiley and sons, 1996.

Sala A.M., Grandi S., Dallari F. (a cura di), Turismo e turismi tra politica e innovazione, Patron, Bologna, 2008.

Urry J., Lo sguardo del turista: il tempo libero e il viaggio nelle società contemporanee, Roma, SEAM, 1995.

Villamira A. (a cura di), Psicologia del viaggio e del turismo, Torino, UTET libreria, 2001 (solo capp. 1, 3, 5, 13, 14, 17).

 

It is possible to arrange other books with the lecturer

 

Students attending all the lessons will read a book in small groups and make a short presentation to the class.

Teaching methods

Oral lessons, supported by the use of power point presentations, available on the website: http://campus.cib.unibo.it.

Students will be invited to share a participative attitude during the lessons, by presenting short researches to be done either individually or in small groups, and by participative methodologies such as games. In the first part of the course this research will deal with one of the tourist issues assigned by the lecturer while in the second it will be a relation of one of the book in the above list.

Lessons schedule:

Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 13:45-15:15.

 

All the lessons are held in the classroom of Geography, via Guerrazzi 20, Bologna, tel. 051 2097451

 

Assessment methods

The exam is composed by an oral examination and by the presentation of a short essay on a tourist issue, to be handed over not later than 5 days before the oral exam. Information on the preparation of this essay may be found on the website: http://campus.cib.unibo.it.

Students attending the lessons will have a reduction in the amount of pages to study.

Please sign in for the exam on the Almaesami website.

Teaching tools

The PowerPoint material used by the lecturer will be at the students' disposal either by mail or on the site: http://campus.cib.unibo.it

Office hours

See the website of Elisa Magnani