Tourism and Sustainable Development: Designing Cultural Routes

Course Code
12ΕΠΙ-59_20
ECTS Credits
4
Semester
Εξάμηνο Η
Course Category
Specialization
Ιστορίας και Διαχείρισης Πολιτισμικών Αγαθών
Professor

Dr. Ioanna Spiliopoulou, Professor

Course Description

 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.