The main objective of the course concerns the critical assimilation of the geographic factors that are important for tourism, culture and sport, and of the key characteristics of the strategic planning for the respective activities, with a reference to the role of human action and social structure.
The aim of the course focuses on students who are interested in working as planners, or in organizations dealing with tourism and leisure activities.
Acquisition of knowledge for the human need and desire for dinstictive time and leisure and tourism management as a basic prerequisite for understanding the contemporary issues and concepts about tourism development.
Understanding of the basic concepts of tourism development, elaboration of proposals for tourism activities and critical evaluation of the relevant measures, plans and policies.
The skills the students acquire through this course are mainly mental.
1.3 Competences
At the end of the course, students can use their knowledge, skills and personal, social and methodological abilities in work or education processes and in their professional and personal development with the main focus on planning and organizing tourism activities in space. They should be able to seek information, combine and organize the knowledge they have gained and evaluate it critically.
Students acquire the ability to scientifically analyze and organize the space at all scales (city section, city and region) in relation to tourism and leisure activities and the ability to make documented proposals for tourism and leisure planning.
Taking into account the general competencies that the graduates should acquire (as listed in the Diploma Supplement) the course contributes to the acquisition of the following:
– Research, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the essential technologies,
– Teamworking,
– Working in an international and interdisciplinary environment,
– Generating new research ideas
– Project management and design
– Respect to the environment
– Promotion of free, creative and inductive thinking
The course introduces the concepts of leisure and tourism which are key factors in the development of human activities in the specific field. Regarding tourism activities, the course examines all scales of space. Concerning the cultural and sports activities, it emphasizes the urban dimension, in the context, however, of a unified approach of space and time. The geographical focus is on Greece along, however, with the evaluation of the international (and mainly European) experience. Case studies from Greece and the international experience will also be presented. The course is structured as follows:
DIMENSIONS OF LEISURE
The concept of time and leisure planning
New concepts
Planning for tourism and leisure in the cities
The quality of urban life in relation with the triptych recreation-culture-tourism
Climate change and leisure activities
Introduction to the planning and management of special events
Management and marketing of leisure activities and tourism
Sports
TOURISM
The development of tourism worldwide
New trends in tourism, special forms of tourism
Tourism Planning at the national, regional and local level
National Spatial Framework for Tourism
CULTURE
Cultural planning – Creative (Cultural) Industries (Media, music, cinema).
European Capitals of Culture
The Creative City
Specified Evaluation Criteria
Evaluation Criteria | Determination of weight |
Written exams | 5 units |
Project corrections | 1 unit |
Project | 2 units |
Presentation of the project | 1 unit |
Tests and general participation | 1 unit |
The topics of the papers are suggested through a specially formulated list of topics that cover contemporary issues and concepts related to the course. The authoring of the papers, which is monitored by the teachers throughout the semester, involves the analysis and synthesis of theoretical text, gathering diverse data, conducting field research in the area of inquiry, critically evaluating the plans and policies already applied and the formulation of specific recommendations based on the knowledge gained by the students participating in the course. Through the corrections of the work, the intermediate and final presentation, as well as the overall student participation in the lectures, teachers are able to evaluate their performance on the above individual learning objectives.
The assessment system is sufficient, clear and aware of the students, as it is analyzed in the outline of the course which is being distributed in the first lesson and posted in eclass.
All courses include an evaluation of the teachers, the educational process and the student assessment process. The evaluation process is carried out anonymously and electronically under the responsibility of the Secretariat and is completely transparent.
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