Opis kursa:

Ovaj kurs ima za cilj da studentima omogući sticanje osnovnih znanja iz oblasti turističke geografije. Kurs je usmjeren na razumevanje uticaja elemenata geografskog okruženja, posebno turističkih resursa na razvoju turizma. Posebna pažnja će biti posvećena analizi aktuelnih trendova i kretanja na međunarodnom turističkom tržištu i usvajanje znanja o najpoznatijim svjetskim turističkim destinacijama, kao i na njihovih geografskih, ekonomskih, političkih, društvenih, kulturnih i drugih resursa. Takođe, akcenat će biti stavljen i na razumijevanje različitih dimenzija turizma i njihov međusobni odnosu , kao I na proučavanje kretanja na turističkom tržištu u kontekstu globalizacije, klimatskih promjena, održivog razvoja i drugih fenomena koji se vezuju za savremeno doba, a koji utiču na razvoj turizma.

Nakon završenog kursa student će biti osposobljen da:

  - Tumači, koristi i analizira ključne pojmove i termine iz oblasti turističke geografije;

  - Analizira osnovne principe u  turizmu iz različitih perspektiva (prostorna, socialna, kulturna, politička, ekonomska itd);

  - Identifikuje turistička područja i destinacije;

  - Adekvatno upravlja turističkim destinacijama i prostorom u skladu sa principima održivog razvoja;

  - Analizira uticaje turizma na privredni razvoj sa različitih aspekata i iz različitih perspektiva;

  - Razumije dinamičnu prirodu turizma;

  - Prati, predviđa i analizira trendove na međunarodnom turističkom tržištu;

  - Identifikuje i prepoznaje turistički potencijal i osmišljava koncept za njegovu adekvatnu valorizaciju.

Course description:

This course is a general and introductory subject about the relationship between the territory, society and the tourist activities. In this subject, the focus is put on the analysis of  the key factors that operate in the territory in order to create tourist development processes. Course Tourism geography gives general and basic information in terms of vocabulary, sources of information, methods of analysis or information technologies.  General objectives of the course are focused on understanding the influence of the elements of the geographical environment, and in particular, the importance of tourism resources in the development of tourism and analyzing international tourist flows and major destinations worldwide as well as the factors that have influenced its development and major trends in the short and medium term. Conceptual objectives of the course are: understanding the different dimensions of tourism and their interrelationships, learning recent trends and dynamics of tourism in the context of globalization and sustainability, explaining the location factors tourism activities, knowing the geographical, social, economic, political, cultural particularities of tourism resources and destinations, discussing the interrelationships of tourism with environmental processes that interact at local, regional and global scale, with particular attention to the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.

Upon the completion of this course, student will be able to:

  - Understand and briefly explain the principles of tourism: its spatial, social, cultural, legal, political, labor and economic dimension;

  - Identify and manage tourist areas and destinations;

  - Manage tourist areas in accordance with sustainability criteria;

  - Analyze the impacts generated by tourism;

  - Understand the dynamic and evolutionary nature of tourism in the new leisure society;

  - Detect technical planning needs for tourist infrastructures and facilities;

  - Convert and empirical problem into an object of research and draw conclusions;

  - Evaluate tourist potential and the prospective analysis of exploiting it.