This course combines tourism, sustainable development and cultural administration. Core terms and topics are presented theoretically and are supported by case studies. The following topics are examined:
- History of tourism; the ethics of tourism development.
- Sustainable development and culture as a pillar of sustainable development.
- Natural and man-made environment. Natural and cultural routes.
- Designing new tourism destinations. Alternative forms of tourism.
- Categorisation of cultural and environmental routes. The trail as an element of space.
- Protection, accessibility and promotion of archaeological sites and monuments as a requirement in the design of cultural routes.
- Itinerating as a tool for designing cultural routes: from Pausanias to the itinerants and travellers of the 15th to the 20th century. Cultural routes and antiquity: a new approach of the historical past in tandem with the environmental and the man-made environment. Cultural routes and the Middle Ages: a less known dimension of the Greek cultural landscape.
- Monothematic cultural routes: religious tourism and pilgrimage, ancient theatres, castles, bridges, bridges, preserved settlements and natural attractions (valleys, rivers, gorges, caves, etc.).
- Cultural routes and literary memory; Green routes and monuments: the case of Otto’s Athens; Cultural trails: olive and wine routes.