COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GEOPOLITICS OF TOURISM

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUI 5091 GEOPOLITICS OF TOURISM ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ILKAY TAŞ GÜRSOY

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

The course examines economic, political and diplomatic situations whicg impact on tourism with a national and international focus; aims to evaluate changing jeopolitics and geography concepts due to globalization of tourism, geopolitical risks, the soft power tourism and the notions of mobility, borders within the scope of recent actual events.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To explain the conceptual framework of jeopolitics
2   To evaluate the approaches to geopolitics with a focus on tourism
3   To analyze the power, power relations and discourse in tourism geopolitics
4   To explain the interrelationship between tourism interactions and micro level geopolitics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course A brief overview of the geopolitics
2 Approaches to geopolitics (I)
3 Approaches to geopolitics with a focus on tourism(II)
4 The relationship between geopolitics and political economy: Evaluation with a focus on tourism
5 Regionalism within the scope of geopolitics: Evaluation with a focus on tourism
6 Globalisation within the scope of geopolitics: Evaluation with a focus on tourism
7 Transnational capitalism, value creation and tourism development Midterm exam
8 Biopolitics and tourism
9 Geopolitical discourse: tourism, territory, geography and borders in the context of politics (I)
10 Discourse, power and power relations (II)
11 Tourism encounters and micro level geopolitics (I)
12 Tourism encounters and micro level geopolitics (II)
13 Evaluation of selected cases
14 Evaluation of selected cases
15 Final Exam
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Jamie Gillen, Mary Mostafanezhad (2019). Geopolitical encounters of tourism: A conceptual approach, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 75, 70-78.
Derek Hall (Ed.). Tourism and Geopolitics Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe, CABI
Ian Rowen (2016) The Geopolitics of Tourism: Mobilities, Territory, and Protest in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 106:2, 385-393

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures and readings

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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Assessment Criteria

Midterm exam, final exam

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students are required to attend 70% of the lecture classes. Besides, students are required to participate in the class discussions, and to contribute to the active learning in the classrom.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ilkay.tas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday, 11.00-16.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Reading 1 30 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 156

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.1444
LO.2554
LO.345
LO.4454

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