Contemporary trends in tourism

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Course ID:	1900-3-WTT-MT
Erasmus code / ISCED:	07.1 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0532) Earth science The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Contemporary trends in tourism
Name in Polish:	Współczesne trendy w rozwoju turystyki
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	None.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	Classes are devoted to present diversity of contemporary tourism and directions of its’ development.
Full description:	The scope of the lecture is to present examples of new, gaining its popularity forms of tourism and developing destinations. Various types of activities (eg. backpacking, volontary, MICE tourism), use of tourism values (eg. birdwatching, dark tourism) and destinations (eg. polar tourism, space tourism) are discussed. The class is devoted to analisis of quantitative and qualitative data on selected problems. Reading, discussion and individual work will be followed by oral presentations.
Bibliography:	Novelli M. (ed.), 2005,Niche Tourism: Contemporary Issues, Trends And Cases, Elsevier Singh T.V. (ed.), 2004, New Horizons in Tourism: Strange Experiences and Stranger Practices, CABI Publishing UNWTO Tourism Barometer (actual and archival numbers) UNWTO Tourism Highlights (actual and archival numbers)
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge: A student knows trends of World tourism, specific of its most important forms and conditions of tourists flow. Skills: A student can find and analyze quantitative and qualitative data on tourism. Attitudes: A student is conscious of tourism environmental, economic and social impacts.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	The level of adoption of lecture and classes content is ranked.
Practical placement:	None.

This course is not currently offered.

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