Special and Alternative Forms of Tourism

Μάθημα: Special and Alternative Forms of Tourism
Course Number: ECO1006
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COURSE OUTLINE

  1. GENERAL
SCHOOL ACTICULTURAL AND FORESTRY SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT
LEVEL OF STUDIES UNDERGRADUATE
COURSE CODE ECO1006 SEMESTER 7th, 9th
COURSE TITLE SPECIAL AND ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF TOURISM
INTEPENDENT TEACHING ACTIVITIES
in case that the credit units are awarded in distinctive parts of the class, etc: lectures, laboratorial exercises. When the credit units are awarded for the total class, write the weekly teaching hours and the total ECTS credits		 WEEKLY TEACHING HOURS ECTS CREDITS
Lectures and Laboratory Exercises / Practice Exercises 4 5
COURSE TYPE

Background, General Knowledge, Scientific Area, Skill Development

 SCIENTIFIC AREA / DIRECTION
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TEACHING & EXAMINATION LANGUAGE: GREEK
COURSE OFFERED TO ERASMUS STUDENTS: NO
COURSE URL: https://eclass.duth.gr/eclass/courses/OPE02114/

 

  1. LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning Outcomes
The aim of the course is to introduce students to the concepts of tourism and tourism development and deepen in the special and alternative forms of tourism and their social, economic, development, cultural and environmental impact on local and regional development

 

At the end of the course students will be able to:

 

• Understand the concepts of tourism and in particular the special and alternative forms of tourism that develop mainly in rural and mountainous areas
• They use the available technology to gather data related to tourism development, process them, analyze them and draw conclusions for the integrated development of various areas
• They have understood and appreciated the importance of special and alternative forms of tourism in tourism development
• Combine their knowledge and examine the possibilities of tourism development, especially in the mountainous area, so that it can offer in a balanced way all its services to the community
• They are conducting research for this special tourist market
• They prepare plans for the tourist development and development of rural and mountainous areas

 

 
  General Skills
 

• Decision making
• Work in interdisciplinary environment
• Promoting free, creative and inductive thinking
• Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
• Working in an international environment
• Production of new research ideas
• Exercise criticism and self – criticism

 

 

 

  1. COURSE CONTENT
 

Week            Thematic Lecture Unit

 

1. Introduction – Basic definitions
2. The main models of tourism development
3. Supply and demand of tourist product
4. Sustainable tourism development. Impacts of tourism development with special emphasis on special and alternative forms of tourism
5. The development of special and alternative forms of tourism
6. Mountainous tourism, Agrotourism
7. Tourism planning, strategies and evaluation methods
8. Working and leisure time, sociology of leisure time.
9. The “journey” as a product. Motivation and behavior of the tourist as a traveler and as a consumer
10. Methodology of analysis, market research and “industry” of travel and tourism with particular emphasis on specific alternative forms of tourism
11. Public relations in tourism
12. Tourist advertising in private companies and National Tourism Organizations
13. Tourism and communication at local, regional and national level

 

 

Week            Thematic Lab Unit

 

1. The economic impact of tourism
2. The use of indicators in tourism
3. Supply and demand of tourism product
4. Evaluation methods in tourism
5. Evaluation methods in tourism
6. Preparation of a tourism development plan with emphasis on agro-tourism
7. Evaluation of tourism development programs and plans
8. Case studies
9. Tourism market research methodologies
10. Tourism market research methodologies
11. Public relations in tourism
12. Tourist advertising
13. Tourism and communication

 

 
  1. LEARNING & TEACHING METHODS – EVALUATION
TEACHING METHOD
Face to face, Distance learning, etc.		 Face to face In classroom
USE OF INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICT) Support of the teaching procedure using e-class platform, e-Media, power point presentations

 
TEACHING ORGANIZATION
Activity Semester workload
Lectures 65
Literature analysis and in class presentation 10
Laboratory courses 15
Team projects in case studies 15
Independent study 20
Course total

(25 – hour workload per credit unit)

 125

 

 
STUDENT ASSESSMENT Written exams at the end of the semester (in Greek)

Individual or team project

Students having ascertained dyslexia problems are examined with oral methods.

Students have access to their essay at any time
  1. SUGGESTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
– Suggested bibliography :

Kokkosis Ch., Tsartas P., Gkirmpa E. 2011. Special and alternative forms of tourism. Kritiki editions.

Kokkosis Ch., Tsartas P. 2019. Sustainable tourism development and the environment. Kritiki editions.

 

Vanhove Norbert, Agiomirgianakis G., Menegaki A (ed.) 2019. The economics of tourism destinations. G. Dardanos – K. Dardanos. Athens.

 

Varvaresos S. 2013. Economics of tourism. Propombos editions.

 

 

– Related scientific journals:

Tourism Management, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Annals of Tourism Research

 

ANNEX OF THE COURSE OUTLINE

 Alternative ways of examining a course in emergency situations

Department: Agricultural Development
Course: Special and Alternative Forms of Tourism
Course code: ECO1006
Teacher: Garyfallos Arabatzis
Contact details: garamp@fmenr.duth.gr
Supervisors: (1) –
Semester: 7th
Study level: (2) Undergraduate
Exams: (3) Written assignment and oral examination with distance learning methods (Microsoft Teams)
Exam implementation instructions: (4) The examinations will be carried out according to the examination program that will be announced by the secretariat of the Department

The total core of examinations include a) a 20% written assignment and b) 80% oral examination using Microsoft Teams.

The oral examination in the course will be carried out in groups of 5 people (30 minutes per group) according to the order in which the Number of Student Record of the participants appear in the attached list (examination program)

The link of the Microsoft Teams meeting will be sent to students via e-class, exclusively to the institutional accounts of those who have registered for the course and have learned the terms of distance teaching

Students will have to log in to the examination room through their institutional account, otherwise they will not be able to participate. They will also participate in the examination with a camera which they will have opened during the examination. Before the start of the exam, students will show their identity card to the camera, so that they can be identified

Each student should answer in 4 questions. Each of the questions is scored with 2.5 credits