Study-Unit Description

Study-Unit Description


CODE TRS2211

 
TITLE Heritage and Cultural Tourism Management

 
UM LEVEL 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course

 
MQF LEVEL 5

 
ECTS CREDITS 4

 
DEPARTMENT Tourism Management

 
DESCRIPTION This study-unit presents tourism as a 'marketplace’ for cultural heritage, but one that presents a range of challenges and issues regarding the management of cultural and heritage tourism. The study-unit applies different academic discourses to explore how producers and consumers of tourism might collaborate to co-create meanings, values and experiences related to cultural tourism. It also explores core competences of the cultural manager such as effective means of communicating with visitors, both potential and actual, before, during and after their experience with a site. The material presented is driven by the need to seek a sustainable cultural tourism product, including considering strategies of better tourism distribution from the over-emphasis on city centre sites to the neglect of more peripheral cultural elements.

Study-unit Aims:

This study-unit presents students with possibilities of exploring the issues and concepts involved in heritage and cultural tourism management. The learning material is aimed to help students develop skills and competencies that relate particularly to cultural aspects of tourism such as planning, mobility and technological innovation. Students will be provided with opportunities to develop a critical and hands-on approach to sustainable cultural management.

Learning Outcomes:

1. Knowledge & Understanding

By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to demonstrate an appreciation for heritage on a global dimension.

2. Skills
By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to:

- Develop the interdisciplinary, multi-cultural, and cosmopolitan skills in a rigorous intellectual environment;
- Deepen their understanding of global approaches to heritage;
- Identify and interpret a tangible or intangible heritage object or artefact in the context and the course of their presentation;
- Demonstrate the interpretative and management approaches they are adopting in relation to heritage objects and the values they represent.

Main Text/s and any supplementary readings:

- Eileen Hooper Grenhill (2000), Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture Routeledge.
- Michelle L. Stefano Peter Davis (eds) (2008), The Routledge Companion to Intangible Cultural Heritage (1st Ed), Routledge.
- Dallen J. Timothy (2007), The International Library of Essays in Tourism, Heritage and Culture: 3 Volumes, CRC Press.

 
RULES/CONDITIONS Before TAKING THIS UNIT YOU MUST TAKE TRS1131

 
STUDY-UNIT TYPE Lecture, Seminar & Independent Study

 
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT
Assessment Component/s Assessment Due Sept. Asst Session Weighting
Assignment SEM2 Yes 100%

 
LECTURER/S George Cassar

 

 
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