Sustainable tourism science

The course provides a broad illustration of the relationship between tourism - understood as part of human mobility - and territory. The theoretical approach and the case studies make reference to a well consolidated and up-to-date international literature. The student will learn to understand the relationships between territory, tourist supply and human mobility; he will be able to evaluate the tourist potential of different regions and the related challenges in terms of sustainability (environmental, cultural, social, economic). The student will be able to elaborate independent evaluations on specific tourism development projects, and on the possibilities of investment, growth and improvement of services in the tourist sector. The student will acquire communication skills by learning the main basic concepts of the discipline; thus, he/she will be able to autonomously deepen the main topics through further studies both in geography, and in economic, sociological, statistical and marketing fields.