The course is included in these curricula and study modules
Tourism administration - Tourism administration
Level/category
Teaching language
Swedish
Type of course
Compulsory
Recommended year of study
2
Total number of ECTS
6 cr
Learning outcomes
To understand motivations for travel and for tourist behaviour and which are the most significant push and pull factors.
To see tourism in a sociological and cultural context, conditions and significance.
Course contents
Tourism as a sociological phenomenom, needs and motives.
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Tourism Industry
Recommended or required reading
Krippendorf, J. : The Holiday Makers 1994
Selänniemi, T: Matka ikuiseen kesään - kultturiantropologinen
näkökulma suomalaisten etelänmatkailuun.SKS. Helsinki.1996.
Swarbrooke,J.& Horner,S.Consumer behavior in Tourism. Butterworth-Heinemann.2001.ISBN 0 7506 32836
Annan litteratur anges av föreläsaren vid kursstarten.
Study activities
- Lectures
- Group work
- Presentations
- Project work
- Excursion
- Exercises
- lectures, observation experiments, analysis, team work
- Individual work
Workload
- Total workload of the course: 0 hours
- Of which autonomous studies: 0 hours
- Of which scheduled studies: 0 hours
Mode of Delivery
Participation in tuition
Assessment methods
Written tests
Examiner
Aittoniemi Hellevi
Group size
No limit
Assignments valid until
The end of the academic year