| CODE | TTC1104 | |||||||||
| TITLE | The Other: Relationships in Tourism | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit discusses the players within the tourism sphere in particular it focuses on the many types of tourists and the various ways in which tourism can take shape and form. By identifying the main characteristics of visitors this study-unit demonstrates to students that a tourist has various characteristics that can eventually shape the different forms of tourism. The study-unit will cover the following areas: - Theories of acculturation; - Host-guest relations; - Stereotypes in Tourism; - Gender and tourism; - Senior visitors - Gay and lesbian tourism; - Disabled travellers; - Immigrants and refugees. The study-unit will also discuss how tourism media presents the various forms of tourism. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit has the following aims: - To give a solid introduction to host-guest encounters and the multiple relationships that such encounters can lead to; - To demonstrate that tourists are 'products' of our own society and that tourists have individual and specific needs; - To illustrate that tourists are not a homogenous group and that various types of tourist groups exist; - To illustrate the various characteristics and needs of different tourist groups. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Define hosts and guests; - Comprehend the nature of the relationship of host-guest encounters; - Comprehend the nature of tourist stereotypes and how stereotypes emerge; - Define the various forms of tourism (elderly, gay, poor etc); - Appreciate that tourists come from various backgrounds and have their own needs and requirements; - Comprehend that tourist-host encounters lead to acculturation and discuss how acculturation can bring about new forms cultural identity. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - llustrate by means of concrete examples the needs of the different types of visitors; - Demonstrate how media represents new forms of tourism; - Present ideas in a coherent manner; - Write and present different case studies on different tourist types. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Picard, D. and Di Giovane, M (2014) Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference Channel View Publications. - Pritchard, A. (2007) Tourism and Gender: Embodiement, Sensuality and Experience: Embodiment, Sensuality and Experience CABI. - Waldren, J. (1996) Insiders and Outsiders: Paradise and Reality in Mallorca New Directions in Anthropology. - Hall, C.M. and Muller, D.K. (2004) Tourism, Mobility and Second Homes: Between Elite Landscape and Common Ground Channel View. - Nash, D. (1996) Anthropology of Tourism (Tourism Social Science Series), Emerlad: London. - Smith, V (1989) Hosts and Guests: The Anthropology of Tourism University of Pensylvania Press. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Independent Study | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Chantal Avellino Noel Buttigieg Andrew Jones Dane Munro |
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