Nature-Based Tourism
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Course informations
| Study program level |
Graduate |
| Study program |
Management |
| Study program direction |
Destination management |
| Course year |
2. |
| Course semester |
III |
| Course status |
Elective |
| ECTS |
4 |
| Lectures (h) |
30 |
| Excercises (h) |
- |
| Seminars (h) |
15 |
Course objectives
- Analyze natural resources as motives of tourist movements.
- Explore the forms of nature-based tourism
- Display the value of nature through tourism resource valorization.
- Identify the importance of environmental interpretation and tourist attractions in a tourist destination
Course outcomes
- Establish basic resources for the development of tourism based on natural resources.
- Compare the natural resources of Croatia, Europe and the world and their inclusion in tourism.
- distinguish special forms of nature-based tourism and current trends in the market. • Evaluate market potentials of certain forms of nature-based tourism.
- Identify emerging forms of nature-based tourism first in rural, then in urban areas.
- To argue the importance of protected areas of nature for the development of ecotourism and other forms of nature-based tourism on a given example.
- Analyze the role and importance of environmental interpretation in tourism and improving the quality of life in a tourist destination.
- Identify positive and possibly negative aspects of the impact of tourism on the environment
Course content
Environment and development of tourism: natural resources, tourism and space, environment, ecology. The link between environmental protection and tourism development. The role of sustainable development in the strengthening of nature-based tourism. Differentiation of the shape of tourism according to the natural features of space. The role of tourism in the transformation of natural resources by creating long-term sustainable values in the destination. Characteristics of the demand market and current trends of nature-based tourism. Offers of tourism motivated by activities in nature: ecotourism, recreational, adventure, adventure, Robinson-like, adrenaline tourism. Tourism in protected areas of nature. Interpretation of natural resources in the destination. Reciprocal relationship of tourism and nature: positive and negative aspects.
