Culture and Tourism

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Nankai University

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Culture and Tourism

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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

Language, Politics & Society

University, College, Institution

Nankai University

Course Skill Level

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Course Language

English

Place of class

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

Degree

Certificate

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Culture and Tourism

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