Cultural Tourism
- Credits: 3
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Commerce
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Knowledge:
The student will acquire knowledge about relations between tourism and culture, the importance of the culture for the tourism, specifications of care of culture heritage, conditions of development of culture tourism on the side of the offer and demand and orientate himself in institutions, which secure the care of culture heritage as also about the offer of culture memories, culture institutions and culture events in Slovakia.
Skills:
The student is able to create a product in the field of cultural tourism, offer it as an intermediary article within the distribution.
Competences:
The student will have an overview of institutions that are competent in the field of cultural tourism and will be able to stimulate them in case of possible cooperation.
Indicative content
The student will acquire knowledge about relations between tourism and culture, the importance of the culture for the tourism, specifications of care of culture heritage, conditions of development of culture tourism on the side of the offer and demand and orientate himself in institutions, which secure the care of culture heritage as also about the offer of culture memories, culture institutions and culture events in Slovakia.
The student will have an overview of institutions that are competent in the field of cultural tourism and will be able to stimulate them in case of possible cooperation.
The student is able to create a product in the field of cultural tourism, offer it as an intermediary article within the distribution.
Support literature
1. Dreyer, A. – Antz, Ch. (2020). Kulturtourismus. Oldenbourg.
2. Litomerický, J. (2021). Kultúrny cestovný ruch. Bratislava: Vydavateľstvo Ekonóm.
3. Stankov, U. et al. (2019). Cultural Sustainable Tourism. Springer International Publishing.
Syllabus
1. Terminology of basic concepts of culture and cultural tourism 2. Characteristics of cultural tourism 3. Product of cultural tourism 4. Categorization of cultural monuments and the structure of the monument fund in the Slovak Republic 5. Legislation governing activities in the management of cultural monuments 6. Institutions ensuring the protection of the monument fund in the Slovak Republic 7. Reconstruction of monuments and cooperation with the Monuments Office of the Slovak Republic 8. The role of cities, municipalities and local authorities in ensuring the development of cultural tourism in territorial units 9. Economics of monuments and financing the care of monuments fund as a part of tourism development in the Slovak Republic 10. The importance of UNESCO and UNESCO World Heritage in the Slovak Republic 11. Traditions and culture of regions in tourism 12. Traditions in the context of globalization processes 13. Experience with the application of cultural tourism abroad
Requirements to complete the course
40% semester work;
60% written exam.
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 20.02.2024