Course title
サステイナブルツーリズム論   [Sustainable tourism]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year 4  Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 01AN4508
Instructor(s)
土屋 俊幸   [TSUCHIYA Toshiyuki]
Facility affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Office Room 426, Building 1  Email address

Course description
Aim: The final goal of this course is to think and discuss sustainability of tourism with understanding history of tourism in Japan from the Edo era ( the 17th century- ) to the present.

Summary: The course provides: 1) Theoretical characteristics of tourism; 2) history of tourism in Japan; 3) Comparison of mass tourism and alternative tourism (Green Tourism and Ecotourism).
Expected Learning
You will obtain another perspective of tourism which is very popular and familiar among people but rarely recognized objectively and historically.
Course schedule
Class 1: Guidance and definition of the related words: tourism; travel; journey; leisure; recreation and etc.
Class 2: Academic theory of tourism
Class 3-6: History of tourism in Japan
Class 7: Mass tourism and sustainability
Class 8: Alternative tourisms
Prerequisites
None
Required Text(s) and Materials
The course handout will delivered in class.
References
Assessment/Grading
40%: Responses (questions and comments) for each class, 60%: Final report
Message from instructor(s)
Course keywords
tourism, sustainability, mass-tourism, green tourism, ecotourism, culture, railway company
Office hours
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
9/28/2018 3:30:17 PM