Academic Year: 2015/2016 Course: Resources and Tourism

 Academic Year: 2015/2016
Course: Resources and Tourism Itineraries
Coordinator: Maria Luísa Rodrigues e Vitor Ambrósio
Teaching Staff: Maria Luísa Rodrigues e Vitor Ambrósio
ECTS: 6 Weekly Hours: 2h
Typology: TP - Theoretical & Practical
Contents
1. Tourism Itineraries
2. Tourism Resources
3. Techniques for Drawing Itineraries
4. Cartography
5. Theme Itineraries
6. Drawing Itineraries Practical Application
Objectives and skills
In this course is intended that the master students understand and reflect on the necessary link
between resources, tourist itineraries and the development of tourism.
More specifically, the aim is to provide the students with the necessary tools for the
conceptualization and drawing of different itineraries types.
In the first part of the semester will be focused the aspects related with the critical analysis of
different kinds of tourism resources and itineraries which exist on the market.
In the second part of the semester, with their achieved knowledge, the students should be
able to draw thematic itineraries taking into account the specificities that they may take in
different contexts.
References
Ambrósio, V. (2010). Turismo Religioso – Construção de Itinerários. Exedra, número temático,
Turismo e Património, 33-50.
Cooper, C., Fyall, J., Fletcher, A., Gilbert, D. & Wanhill, S. (2008). Tourism: Principles &
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Practices (2 ed.). London: Pitman.
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Gunn, C. (1988). Designing Tourist Regions. New York: Longman.
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Niche Tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases (pp. 27-37). Oxford: ButterworthHeinemann.
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Annals of Tourism Research, 33 (2), 403-423.
Newsome, D. & Dowling, R. (2005). The scope and nature of Geotourism. In R. Dowling & D.
Newsome (eds.), Geotourism (pp. 3-25). Oxford: Elsevier.
Rodrigues, M. (2009). Geodiversidade, Património Geomorfológico e Geoturismo. Lisboa:
Centro de Estudos Geográficos da Universidade de Lisboa, TERRiTUR.
Rodrigues, M. (2011). The scope of Geotourism. In. In D. Rocha & A. Sá (Eds.), Geotourism in
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Geopark.
Rodrigues, M. & Fonseca, A. (2010). Geoheritage assessment based on large-scale
geomorphological mapping. Géomorphologie: relief, processus, environnement, 2010 (2), 189198.
Rodrigues, M. et al. (2011). Geotourism routes in urban areas: a preliminary approach to the
Lisbon geoheritage survey. GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, 2 (8), 281-294. Knowledge evaluation methods and their partial grades
Individual work (5 days itinerary) or two master students work (7 days itinerary). The work will
be written in Portuguese or English and will be presented in English. The work will comprise: the
itinerary theme problematic, an email requesting it; detailed itinerary indicating and describing
all services and resources to be used, cartography, budget and reply e-mail. 100 % of the final
grade.
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