Geography of Tourist Areas

Geography of Tourist Areas

Study Cycle: 2

Lectures: 30

Seminars: 15

Tutorials: 15

ECTS credit: 6

Lecturer(s): asist. Sitar Jasna, doc. dr. Cigale Dejan

- spatial concepts in tourism,
- factors of tourism areas development,
models of tourism areas development,
spatial characteristics of tourist travel,
- selected tourism and recreation areas (factors of attraction, characteristics of supply and demand, specific impacts and problems, current trends, etc.),
- mass tourism areas and their specific problems,
- characteristics of tourism in the developing countries,
- tourism and recreation in urban areas,
tourism and recreation in rural areas,
- evaluation of landscape for tourism and recreation.

• Bramwell, B. (ured.), 2004. Coastal mass tourism: diversification and sustainable development in southern Europe. Clevedon et al., Channel View Publications. COBISS.SI-ID – 29002338
• Cigale, D., Lampič, B., Potočnik Slavič, I., Repe, B. (ur.), 2014. Geografsko raziskovanje turizma in rekreacije v Sloveniji. Ljubljana: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete. COBISS.SI-ID – 278020096
• Hall, C. M., Page, S., 2014. The geography of tourism and recreation. 4th ed. London, New York: Routledge. COBISS.SI-ID – 55092834
• Williams, S., Lew, A. A., 2015. Tourism geography. Critical understandings of place, space and experience. 3rd ed. London, New York: Routledge. COBISS.SI-ID – 56073314

Other current literature available in the e-classroom.