Regional Tourism

  • Credits: 8
  • Ending: Examination
  • Range: 2P + 2C
  • Semester: winter
  • Year: 3
  • Faculty of Commerce

Teachers

Included in study programs

Business Activities in Tourism and Services

Teaching results

The main educational goal is complex to understand the issue of tourism development in the region, the process and conditions for development of tourism in the region.
After completing the course the student should be able to (knowledge and understanding):
- be able to identify problems of regional tourism development in their complex expressions and contexts
- critically discuss the identified problems of tourism development in the region in its organizational, program and financial context,
- demonstrate the ability of critical assessment of the different approaches to regional development and be able to consider different options for supporting the tourism development in the region
- formulate the impact of the use of different tools of support the development of tourism in the region.
After completing the course the student should be able to (skills and competences):
- demonstrate the skills of designing the toolkit of supporting the tourism development depending of the regional specifics and depending of the analyzed problems,
- the ability to design the organizational support of regional tourism activities and possible financial resources available to implement them,
- ability to apply knowledge in practical situations (workshop simulation of the solution of the case studies).

Indicative content

Main analyzed topics are the specifics of regional tourism from an organizational, program and financial view of point. The course also includes the issue of regional cooperation in tourism in its various forms. A great emphasis is put on regional policy in tourism and support the development of tourism in the regions, including the funding of tourism development in the regions and the use of public resources to support the regional development. Subject introduces the conditions of regional tourism development in Slovakia and in advanced countries.

Support literature

Základná literatúra:
1. MICHÁLKOVÁ, A. - GÁLL, J. - ÖZOĞLU, M.: Ekonomika cestovného ruchu v regióne - vybrané problémy. Praha : Wolters Kluwer ČR, 2022. 166 s. ISBN 978-80-7676-418-7
Odporúčaná literatúra:
1. GIAOUTZI, M - NIJKAMP, P.: Tourism and Regional Development. New Pathways. London, New York : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 2017. ISBN 978-1-138-27250-7.
2. MICHÁLKOVÁ, Anna a FÚROVÁ, Terézia. Current Problems in Destination Management Organizations: The Case of Slovakia. In Humanities and Social Sciences: Latvia. Riga : University of Latvia Press, 2017, roč. 25, č. 2. ISSN 1022-4483.
3. MICHÁLKOVÁ, Anna a GÁLL, Jozef. Institutional Provision of Destination Management in the Most Important and in the Crisis Period the Most Vulnerable Regions of Tourism in Slovakia. In European Countryside : The Journal of Mendel University in Brno. , [online]. Varšava : Sciendo, 2021, roč. 13, č. 3, s. 662-684. ISSN 1803-8417.
4. VANHOVE, N. The Economics of Tourism Destinations: Theory and Practice. New York : Routledge, 2017. 384 s. ISBN 978-13-5126-380-1

Syllabus

1. Specifics of managing tourism in the region. Various methods of defining of tourism regions. Defining the functional tourism region. 2. The organizational structure of tourism in tourism. Role and importance of territorial selfgovernment in regional tourism development. 3. Complex of regional organizations intervening in tourism development in the region. Role and importance of regional tourism organizations in the organizational structure of tourism in the regions. 4. Cooperation in the tourism region, conflict management, cooperative management. Local actions groups and its importance for tourism development in regions. 5. Regional partnerships in tourism. Clusters and cluster organizations in tourism. 6. Regional networks in tourism, nature of networks, forms of networks, specifics of tourism regional networks, contradictory effects of networks, support of the networks. Cross-border and interregional cooperation. 7. The programming documents of tourism development at regional and local level, their structure and connectivity. Spatial planning and its role in tourism. 8. The concept of tourism development in the region, the structure of concepts, organizational aspect of processing of concept, supporting tools for implementation of the concept. 9. Regional policy in tourism, basic legislation and documents of regional development in Slovakia, defining of problem regions and their potential for tourism development. 10. Support of the tourism development in the region, the complexity of support tools. Funding sources of tourism in the region, internal and external sources of finance, both public and private sources. 11. Regionalization of tourism in Slovakia, the nature of regionalization in tourism, its importance, methodology, identification of problems. 12. Conditions of the tourism development (localization, implementation, selective conditions) in tourism regions of western Slovakia. 13. Conditions of the tourism development (localization, implementation, selective conditions) in the tourism regions tourism of central and eastern Slovakia.

Requirements to complete the course

40 % semester project;
60 % written examination;

Student workload

Total: 208 hours
Lectures: 26 hours
Seminars: 26 hours
Individual preparation for seminars: 26 hours
Processing of the semester project 78 hours
Individual preparation for the examination: 52 hours

Language whose command is required to complete the course

Slovak, English

Date of approval: 09.02.2023

Date of the latest change: 03.03.2024