PřF:Z0042 Geography of Tourism - Course Information

Z0042 Geography of Tourism

Extent and Intensity

1/1. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Taught in person.

Teacher(s)

RNDr. Jakub Trojan, MSc, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

RNDr. Jakub Trojan, MSc, Ph.D.
Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science
Contact Person: RNDr. Jakub Trojan, MSc, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Geography – Earth Sciences Section – Faculty of Science

Prerequisites (in Czech)

Z3090 Human Geography || Z3090p Human Geography

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

The capacity limit for the course is 25 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/25, only registered: 0/25

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

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Course objectives

The course is an introduction to topics important in the field of tourism geography. Seminars focused on acquiring practical analytical methods are an integral part of the course.

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes can be summarized as follows: competence to analyze basic tourism phenomena and processes; competence to apply basic methods of tourism research; competence to interpret basic results of tourism research.

Syllabus

• Lectures:
• 1. Introduction (terminology, types of tourism, geography of tourism).
• 2. Origin and development of tourism.
• 3. Spatial distribution of tourism in the world.
• 4. Spatial distribution of tourism in the Czech Republic.
• 5. Resources of tourism.
• 6. Supply and demand in tourism (motivations of tourism, mass tourism and new forms of tourism consumption).
• 7. Economic, social and environmental impacts of tourism.
• 8. Urban and rural tourism
• 9. Destination management and tourism planning

Literature

• HALL, C. Michael and Stephen PAGE. The geography of tourism and recreation : environment, place and space. 2nd ed. London: Routledge. x, 399. ISBN 0415250811. 2002. info
• KUNC, Josef, Václav TOUŠEK, Jiří VYSTOUPIL, Petr DANĚK, Pavel KLAPKA, Ondřej MULÍČEK, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Zdeněk SZCZYRBA, Michal VANČURA, Antonín VĚŽNÍK, Milan VITURKA and Petr TONEV. Ekonomická a sociální geografie (Economic and social geography). 1. vydání. Plzeň: Vydavatelství a nakladatelství Aleš Čeněk, s.r.o. 411 pp. učebnice vysokých škol. ISBN 978-80-7380-114-4. 2008. info
• The new Europe : economy, society and environment. Edited by David Pinder. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons. ix, 494. ISBN 0471971235. 1998. info
• GALVASOVÁ, Iva, Jan BINEK, Jan HOLEČEK, Kateřina CHABIČOVSKÁ and Zdeněk SZCZYRBA. Průmysl cestovního ruchu. 1.vyd. Praha: Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj ČR. 264 pp. ISBN 978-80-87147-06-1. 2008. URL info
• VYSTOUPIL, Jiří, Andrea HOLEŠINSKÁ, Josef KUNC, Jaroslav MARYÁŠ, Daniel SEIDENGLANZ, Martin ŠAUER, Petr TONEV and Milan VITURKA. Atlas cestovního ruchu České republiky (Tourism Atlas of the Czech Republic). 1st ed. Praha: Ministerstvo pro místní rozvoj ČR. 156 pp. ISBN 80-239-7256-1. 2006. info

Teaching methods

Teaching methods - lectures, class discussion, project.

Assessment methods

Check-up of elaborated seminar papers.

Colloquium - oral interview, discussion on the topics discussed in the lectures and also on the topics in the study materials referred to in the lectures.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

The course is taught annually.
The course is taught: every week.

Teacher's information

In the fall semester 2022, classes (lectures and seminars) are online only!

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