Sustainable Tourism - Society and Environmental Aspects

Overview

Join this Sustainable Tourism - Society and Environmental Aspects course at Wageningen University and Research - WageningenX, part of this Professional Certificate Tourism in Transition: Exploring a Sustainable Future.

You'll be exposed to a variety of insights throughout the course. These include tourism's historical background and a variety of social science approaches will be looked at, with a special focus on the human geography of tourism. You will be exposed to the negative impacts on natural resources, the cultural heritage of host communities and climate change related issues, such as carbon emissions. Which role can sustainable tourism development play to address both the tourism associated economic benefits as well as the collateral costs for key stakeholders?

What you'll learn

• How to view tourism as a complex social and environmental phenomenon

• An overview of global tourism development in its historical context

• Ways to distinguish differences in the social study of tourism

• How to conceive of the sheer size and systemic development of tourism

• To analyse mutual relationships between tourism and its environment