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Tourist Ports. Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Course Code:

305

Semester:

3rd Semester

Course Hours:

3

ECTS:

5


Course Outline

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the course, students should be able to:

  • Understand the distinctions of tourist ports.
  • Recognize the infrastructure of a tourist port.
  • Acquire knowledge about the spatial planning, licensing, and operation of a tourist port.
  • Be aware of the necessary facilities in a tourist port.
  • Understand the responsibilities of workers in both the land and sea areas of a tourist port.
  • Be familiar with the specific employment conditions in a tourist port.
  • Identify the entities involved in the operation of a tourist port.
  • Understand the Regulations for the Operation of a Tourist Port.
  • Apply the principles of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the organization, operation, and management of a tourist port.
  • Understand the necessary skills for staffing a tourist port, both on land and in the marine area.
  • Understand the technological changes affecting the operation of a tourist port.

 

General Competencies

  • Search for, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of the necessary technology
  • Adapting to new situations
  • Decision-making
  • Working independently
  • Team work
  • Working in an international environment
  • Working in an interdisciplinary environment
  • Production of new research ideas
  • Project planning and management
  • Respect for difference and multiculturalism
  • Respect for the natural environment
  • Showing social, professional and ethical responsibility and sensitivity to gender issues
  • Criticism and self-criticism
  • Production of free, creative and inductive thinking

 

Syllabus

  • Meaning and Content.
  • Special and Alternative Forms of Tourism, Marine Tourism.
  • Marine tourism infrastructure
  • Institutional Framework of Tourist Ports.
  • Tourist Ports Categories: Marinas, Shelters, Moorings.
  • Tourist Ports Management bodies.
  • Spatial Planning and Operation of Tourist Ports.
  • Location and Operating Tourist Ports in Greece.
  • Tourist Ports Facilities.
  • Regulation of Tourist Port Operation (General & Special Regulations).
  • Tourist Ports and Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
  • International, National, Regional, and Local Entities of Tourist Ports.
  • The Role of Tourist Ports in the Development of Marine Tourism.