541-0127/02 – Introduction to tourism (UT)
Gurantor department | Department of Geological Engineering | Credits | 5 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Dominik Niemiec, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Dominik Niemiec, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 1 | Semester | winter |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2017/2018 | Year of cancellation | 2018/2019 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the subject is to acquaint students with the basic concepts of tourism. Another objective of the subject is to get students' orientation in the field of tourism so that when they study in detail the topics in other subjects perceive mutual relations in this area. The course informs about internationally defined concepts and definitions in tourism, deals with market rules and factors operating in the tourism, conditions necessary for the development of the tourism as well as current travel and tourism options in the world and in the Czech Lands, depending on economic and political developments in the given destination.
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Summary
Description of the main factors influencing the development of tourism. The impact of the recreational environment on humans and the risks associated with them. Market as a tourism area and related terms. Classification and description of individual forms of tourism. Current possibilities of tourism in the world. Capacity of the landscape and influence of the tourism on the landscape. Capacity of the landscape and influence of the tourism on the landscape. Characteristics and classification of services in tourism. Legislation in the field of tourism. Processing offer excursion and preparation tourism. Classification and description of transport services in tourism. Classification and description of accommodation and catering services in tourism. Options and types of insurance in the tourism area.
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Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Seminar work and written test to checking the knowledge in the professional literature, the content of lectures and exercises.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
1.Factors Influencing the Development of tourism I. (economic, social, psychological, cultural)
2.Factors Influencing the Development of tourism II. (demographic, environmental, political, administrative)
3. Recreational environment and its favorable and unfavorable effects on humans (forests, mountains, water areas)
4. Market in tourism (prices, market peculiarities, supply, demand and their features)
5. Need and consumption in tourism (division and characteristics of needs, expenditure on tourism raionization).
6. Forms of CR (cultural and educational, entertainment and entertainment, sports, health and curative, gourmet, congress, incentive, urban, rural, religious, seniors, youth, physical disability, and hunting tourism)
7. Sites suitable and inappropriate for tourism (territory excluded from tourism reason to its protection, territory limiting tourism, territory to CR inappropriate), zoning of territory in CR according to their importance for the CR.
8. Landscape capacity (physical, ecological, socio-psychological), negative and positive influence of tourism on the landscape.
9. Characteristics of services in tourism (structure of services, specialties, classification of tourism services).
10. Legal relations in providing tourism services, classification of travel agencies, types of tourism services.
11. Preparation of the trip, cost calculation (program compilation, route design, price calculation, bid processing, guide preparation).
12. Transport services in the Czech Republic (Railway, road, air and sea transport services, mass urban and vertical transport in tourism)
13. Accommodation and catering facilities in the tourism and their categories.
14. Insurance in tourism (types of insurance, reporting and settlement of claims).
Conditions for subject completion
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