Culture and Tourism

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Culture and Tourism
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What is the course about?

Culture and Tourism
The course Culture and Tourism is an online class provided by Nankai University through Future Learn. It may be possible to receive a verified certification or use the course to prepare for a degree.

Discover the history of natural and cultural heritage and explore methods of promoting and conserving the World Heritage sites.

Course description
  • Explore the impact of tourism on the conservation of our world heritage sites
  • 6 weeks
  • On this course, you’ll discover the legal frameworks, processes, and practices used to identify and manage world heritage sites.
  • You’ll build interdisciplinary knowledge on concepts that affect cultural heritage and tourism such as power, globalisation, authenticity, commodification, and representation.
  • As you work through case studies from Asia and around the world, you’ll critically examine contemporary issues in cultural and heritage site tourism management.
  • You’ll also be introduced to current debates within heritage and tourism studies that explore how and why tourists engage with heritage.
  • Week One: Cultural Tourism: Definitions and Concepts
  • Week Two: Mixed Heritage and Cultural Heritage Categories
  • Week Three: Heritage System: Managing and Safeguarding World Heritage Sites
  • Week Four: Cultural Landscapes: Meanings, Values, Assessment, Documentation
  • Week Five: Sustainable Indigenous Tourism
  • Week Six: Affect and Emotion in Heritage Tourism
  • Week One: Cultural Tourism: Definitions and Concepts
  • Week Two: Mixed Heritage and Cultural Heritage Categories
  • Week Three: Heritage System: Managing and Safeguarding World Heritage Sites
  • Week Four: Cultural Landscapes: Meanings, Values, Assessment, Documentation
  • Week Five: Sustainable Indigenous Tourism
  • Week Six: Affect and Emotion in Heritage Tourism
  • Investigate international conventions, charters and standards concerning the protection of World Heritage
  • Identify and judge the utility of different conceptualisations of heritage
  • Identify and implement knowledge of practical issues in cultural heritage management
  • Assess the management of different types of cultural heritage
  • Discuss the importance of the concept of cultural landscape to World Heritage projects
  • Evaluate the role that tourism plays in the production and consumption of culture in heritage practices
  • This course is designed for anyone interested in cross-cultural tourism research and the protection of world cultural heritage.
  • You may be interested in the UNESCO world heritage program, improving tourists’ experience of world heritage sites, and promoting the conservation of world heritage.
  • Nankai University
  • The college of Tourism and Service Management occupies its own building with a hotel nearby. It has about 500 undergraduate and 185 postgraduate students with 38 academic staff and 38 support staff.
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Prerequisites & Facts

Culture and Tourism

Course Topic

Business, Data Analytics, Sales Forecasting

University, College, Institution

Nankai University

Course Skill Level

see course summary

Course Language

English

Place of class

Online, self-paced (see curriculum for more information)

Degree

Certificate

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Degree & Cost

Culture and Tourism

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