Course Description & Objectives:
- The structure of Urban and heritage sites tourism (attractions, facilities, infrastructure, transportation and hospitality).
- Inventorying urban tourism attractions/ products (issues of concern would be: scope, types, ownership, accessibility, permanency, trends, etc).
- Heritage tourism resources inventorying (scope, types, ownership, accessibility, etc). Understanding an urban and heritage oriented tourist (needs, desires and motives).
- Inner city tourism versus peri-urban tourism.
- Urban heritage sites versus upcountry heritage sites. Recent trends in urban tourism (theme parks, urban nature trails, etc).
- Development and design of urban tourism and heritage sites itineraries.
- Planning and management of urban tourism and heritage sites in developing countries (principles, issues of concern, strategies, possibilities and challenges).
- A look at urban tourism and heritage sites tourism in Uganda (potentialities, possibilities and challenges).
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