Course Description & Objectives:
- The Tourism System: components and organization
- Historical Dimensions of Tourism – travel in ancient time, middle age, renaissance, industrial age and modern mass tourism, Economic, social, cultural, environmental and political dimensions – defining international tourism, the importance of international tourism, travel flows, and the international tourist behavior,
- Impacts of tourism, Environmental Dimensions – environment and tourist behavior, environmental perception, environment as an attraction, and the “greening” of tourism.
- Tourism Players/Stakeholders – public sector, private sector, local communities and non-governmental organizations,
- Role of Various Players/Stakeholder – policy, regulate, planning, operation and management. Tourism Attraction – environmental, cultural and social, Tourism Infrastructure – transport, accommodation, etc.
