Course Outline
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to:
– Understand the concepts of culture and cultural heritage
– Be aware of the scope of culture and cultural elements of Greece
– Understand the concept of cultural tourism
– Know the relationship and interaction between culture and tourism
-Be aware of the characteristics of the forms of tourism of the specific product group
– Understand the concept of tangible and intangible cultural heritage
– Distinguish the concept of culture from the term civilisation
– Understand the tourism demand for this group of products
– Distinguish cultural tourism from other specific alternative forms of tourism
– Understand cultural events and other cultural activities
– Understand the relationship and interaction between cultural tourism and other specific alternative forms of tourism
– be familiar with the positive effects, as well as the impacts of Cultural Tourism on the destination and the local population
– Understand the contribution of the cultural tourism product to sustainable local development
– Organise the promotion of Cultural Products and Events that will contribute to sustainable tourism development
General Competencies
- Promoting free, creative and deductive thinking to develop original ideas
- Searching, analysing and synthesising data and information, using modern scientific tools to solve problems in specialised applications
- Autonomous work
- Group work
- Working in an interdisciplinary environment
- Generating new research ideas and dealing with complex issues
- Design and originality in the development of programmes and projects
- Respect for the natural environment
- Working in an international environment
- Respect for diversity and multiculturalism
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical responsibility and gender sensitivity
- Exercise of critical and self-critical thinking and judgement
- Developing capacities to disseminate original scientific and research work in order to increase the human resources that will apply the new scientific added value
Syllabus
- The concept of culture and its importance at national and local level
- The connection between culture and heritage
- The concept of cultural heritage (tangible and intangible)
- The concept of tourism and its importance
- The concept of cultural tourism
- Sustainability and cultural tourism
- Group of products with culture as the dominant motive
- Historical development, characteristics and dimensions of cultural tourism
- Sub-categories of Cultural Tourism
- World Heritage Protection Bodies
- Case Studies of Cultural Tourism destinations and products
- The Charter of Cultural Tourism
- International Bodies for Cultural Tourism
- Modern forms of sustainable cultural tourism
- The contribution of cultural tourism to local development