BKR_KACR Quantification analysis of tourism

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2022
Extent and Intensity
0/0/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Markéta Novotná, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Martin Šauer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. RNDr. Jiří Vystoupil, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. RNDr. Jiří Vystoupil, CSc.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Ing. Iveta Suchomelová Vašíčková
Supplier department: Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Timetable
Sat 26. 2. 16:00–19:50 P302a, Fri 8. 4. 12:00–15:50 P302b, Sat 7. 5. 8:00–11:50 P302b
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to teach students to evaluate the potential of tourism development in the territory. Students will gain an overview of the basic prerequisites for the development of tourism and the mutual links between individual elements of tourism supply.
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course students should be able to:
explain the purpose of tourism quantification analysis;
evaluate the natural and cultural-historical potential of the territory for the development of tourism;
analyze basic and accompanying tourism infrastructure;
characterize functionally-spatial organization of tourism in the area;
create functional typology of the tourist centres;
analyze the attendance of the territory;
compare the overall attractiveness of selected territorial-administrative units.
Syllabus
  • I. Evaluation of primary potential and precondition of tourism
  • - The natural potential of tourism (evaluation of potential recreational areas, large-scale protected areas, specific natural attractions, functional-spatial types of “recreational” landscape)
  • - The cultural and historical potential of tourism (evaluation based on the presence of UNESCO monuments, national cultural monuments, city and village reserves, attendance of castles and chateaux, etc.)
  • II. Evaluation of secondary potential and precondition of tourism
  • - Accommodation infrastructure and attendance
  • - Sport and recreational infrastructure
  • - Other accompanying tourist infrastructure, incl. evaluation of transport accessibility
  • III. Functional-spatial organization of tourism
  • - Functional typology of centres
  • - Line infrastructure
  • - Areas of tourism
Literature
    recommended literature
  • VYSTOUPIL, Jiří, Martin ŠAUER, Andrea HOLEŠINSKÁ, Josef KUNC, Petr TONEV and Daniel SEIDENGLANZ. Geografie cestovního ruchu České republiky (Geography of tourism in the Czech Republic). první. Plzeň: Aleš Čeněk, 2011, 318 pp. ISBN 978-80-7380-340-7. URL info
  • MÜLLER, Dieter K. Tourism in peripheries : perspectives from the far north and south. Edited by Bruno Jansson. Wallingford: CABI, 2007, x, 230. ISBN 9781845931773. info
Teaching methods
tutorials (personal meetings with students); self-study; seminar work and control test
Assessment methods
The written exam is required (reaching 60% of the total score is the condition for the successful finishing of the subject). Part of the evaluation is the individual project on a given topic. The written exam is 40% and the individual project is 60% of the grade.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: tutorial 12 hodin.
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2023, Spring 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2022, recent)
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