Sustainable Tourism

Cilji predmeta

The aim of the course is to introduce to the concept of sustainable development in tourism to the students. The subject is providing the insights to the starting-points on the “sustainable” behaviour of the specific subjects in the tourism industry on national and entrepreneurship level. The focus of the course will be on destination level and not on product or entrepreneurship level.

Vsebina predmeta

1. Introduction
2. Tourism
2.1. Development of tourism
2.2. UNWTO definition of tourism
2.3. Tourism system and its environment
2.4. Tourism supply
2.5. Tourism demand
3. Economics, Ecology and Tourism
3.1. Relationship between economics and ecology
3.2. Economics and Ecology of tourism
4. Environmental theories and instruments in tourism
4.1. Environmental economic theories
4.2. System based environmental theories and instruments in tourism
4.3. Growth based environmental theories and instruments in tourism
4.4. Behavioural based environmental theories and instruments in tourism
5. Mass tourism
5.1. Tourism growth
6. Sustainable tourism
6.1. Claims for better tourism
6.2. Definition of sustainable tourism
6.3. Other tourism forms and nominations
7. Implementation of ecological tourism policy
7.1. Socio-political environment
7.2. Relation of the society toward ecological issues
7.3. Relation between economy and political science

Nosilci predmeta