Course Description & Objectives:
- Overview of transport systems;
- centrality of transport in tourism;
- transport trends and the tourism sector;
- modes of transport versus visitor types,
- modal choice and competition;
- Transport routes and networks;
- connectivity considerations and tourism;
- tourism flows and gravity models, the shrinking world and tourism,
- Globalization and regionalization of the airline and railway industries;
- Urban and rural transport (accessibility and mobility, passenger versus private transport,
- rural transport problems in developing countries;
- transportation systems in urban areas, etc);
- Travel and tourism surveys (transport research for tourism);
- Sustainable transportation planning and policies for tourism.
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