Course title
サステイナブルツーリズム論   [Sustainable Tourism]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 1 
Department   Year 2  Semester 1st 
Course type 1st  Course code 01RN2211
Instructor(s)
土屋 俊幸   [TSUCHIYA Toshiyuki]
Facility affiliation Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Prevention Research Office Room 426, Building no.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.
Corresponding criteria in the Diploma policy: See the curriculum maps. https://www.tuat.ac.jp/campuslife_career/campuslife/policy/
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: History of tourism in Japan: The Edo era and Meiji Restoration
Class 4: History of tourism in Japan: Before WW II and wartime
Class 5: History of tourism in Japan: After WW II
Class 6: History of tourism in Japan: Era of Resort Boom and afterward
Class 7: Mass tourism and sustainability
Class 8: Alternative tourisms
Prerequisites
None
Students need to preview and review for an amount of time as indicated in the student guidelines of TUAT, in addition to the attendance of lecture (30 hours).
Required Text(s) and Materials
The course handouts will be delivered in class.
References
Related books and papers are introduced in class.
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
Please make an appointment by e-mail.
Remarks 1
Remarks 2
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Lecture Language
Japanese
Language Subject
Last update
3/28/2019 6:56:43 PM