Tourism

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Teaching results

Knowledge:
Students will achieve a systematic overview of tourism from for the stakeholders who create the process of tourist offer. The knowledge is important as a basis for understanding the processes in tourism, systemic contexts and the necessary synergy of the interdisciplinary specifics and crosscutting nature of tourism. Knowledge of basic and additional services will create a knowledge platform of a tourism product. The knowledge of economic criteria forms the necessary basis for understanding and implementation of the economic outputs.
Skills:
The student will learn to search for and critically evaluate available information about tourism destinations. It is the ability to combine selected tourism services from several industries in different specific environmental conditions into a tourist product offer. The teamwork experience in the process of team verifies the student's team work in practice. The student can do develop his leadership and team collaboration.
Competences:
The study of this course the student will be able to evaluate the potential of different regions for tourism development. It will create an important basis for the competence of graduates in executive and management positions at the middle management level in tourist companies that provide tourism services, as well and in companies that provide services related to tourism.

Indicative content

Introduction to travel and tourism, from general to specific. Standard terminology according to various aspects using. Interdisciplinary economic specifics of tourism. Macro - environment and micro - environment of tourism. Basic and additional tourism services. Basic starting points of economic evaluation of tourism. The influence of the local population as part of the offer in tourism. The field trip with the aim to verify selected tourism services in tourist industry.

Support literature

Essential reading:
• Cooper, Ch., Hall, C. M. 2023. Contemporary Tourism: An International Approach. Fifth Edition, Goodfellow, 462 s., ISBN: 978-1-915097-18-7
Support literature:
• Kostilnikova, K., Matlovicova, K., Demkova, M., Mocak, P., Mishra, P.K., Bujdoso, Z., Matlovic, R., Zawilinska, B. 2022. Slow Travel in Tourism - an Outline of Conceptual Frameworks: Potential and Limits in the Context of Post-Pandemic Recovery, GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, 42(2spl), pp. 751–758.
• Matlovičová, K.; Kolesárová, J.; Demková, M.; Kostilníková, K.; Mocák, P.; Pachura, P.; Payne, M. 2022. Stimulating Poverty Alleviation by Developing Tourism in Marginalised Roma Communities: A Case Study of the Central Spiš Region (Slovakia). Land 2022, 11, 1689.
• Matlovičová K., Tirpáková E., Mocák P. 2019. City Brand Image: Semiotic Perspective. A Case Study of Prague. Folia Geographica, Volume 61, No. 1, pp. 120 -142, ISSN 1336-615.
• Nelson, V. 2021: An introduction to the geography of tourism. Third Edition, Rowman & Littlefield, 396 p., ISBN 9781538135181
• Szabó, Z., Matlovičová, K., Molnár, E.I., Bujdosó, Z., Hojcska Á., E., 2023. Territorial Inequalities of Medicinal Waters, as Natural Healing Factors, in Hungary. Acta Polytechnica Hungarica Vol. 20, No. 10, pp. 13-31, DOI: 10.12700/APH.20.10.2023.10.2.

Syllabus

1. Tourism as a Cross-cutting Scientific Discipline; 2. Forms of Tourism and their Application; 3. Types of Tourism and their Application; 4. Accommodation Services in the Hospitality Sector; 5. Economic Aspects of Tourism - Tourism Market, Demand and Supply in the Tourism Industry; 6. Institutional Provision of Destination Management (EU, SR); 7. Air Transport in Tourism; 8. Food Services in Tourism; 9. Bus and Coach Transport in Tourism; 10. Integrated Transport, Urban Transport and Shared Transport in Tourism; 11. Water and Rail Transport in Tourism 12. History of Tourism; 13. Field Trip with Emphasis on Selected Tourism Services.

Requirements to complete the course

40% the semester project;
10% field trip;
50% final written exam.

Student workload

Total workload: 208 hours
Attendance at lectures: 26 hours
Attendance at seminars: 26 hours
Preparation for seminars: 26 hours
Elaboration of the semester project: 26 hours
Case study (team work) 26 hours
Field trip: 15 hodín
Written report and individual proposals related to excursion 15 hours
Preparation for the exam: 48 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 28.02.2024