Syllabus
| # | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geotourism is a sustainable form of tourism that has the potential to deliver significant benefits to host communities. To date, however, geotourism has been examined primarily from the natural sciences perspective, to the detriment of issues related to local social and economic impacts, inter-organizational collaboration, tourist responses, and community participation. A key focus is the impacts of geotourism on geoconservation, economic and social development processes and the quality of life of local populations, detailed attention is also devoted to topics such as geopark and geosystem management, innovative and entrepreneurial strategies in geotourism, and territorial marketing. In addition, students will gain a clear understanding of the extent to which the opportunities and challenges facing geotourism reflect current trends in the tourist industry as a whole. | |
| 2 | Critical Thinking, Systems Thinking, Creative Thinking, Future Thinking | |
| 3 | Lectures using PowerPoint. Collaborative learning. Projects-based learning. Questions and Answers | |
| 4 | Active participation of students in collaborative learning and projects-based learning | |
| 5 | Farsani, N. T., Coelho, C., & Costa, C. (2012). Geoparks and geotourism: New approaches to sustainability for the 21st century. Universal-Publishers. Dowling, R. K., & Newsome, D. (Eds.). (2006). Geotourism. routledge. Chen, A., Lu, Y., & Ng, Y. C. (2015). The principles of geotourism. Berlin: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Singh, R. B., Wei, D., & Anand, S. (2021). Global geographical heritage, geoparks and geotourism (p. 483p). Singapore: Springer. Hose, T. A. (Ed.). (2016). Geoheritage and geotourism: a European perspective (Vol. 19). Boydell & Brewer. | |
| 6 | Projects: 8 Class activity: 8 Final exam: 4 |