International Tourism Destinations

By Dr. Sridevi Kulenur | JSS Science and Technology University, SJCE, Mysuru

Learners enrolled: 913

Tourism geography is the study of travel and tourism, as an industry and as a social and cultural activity. Tourism geography covers a wide range of interests including the environmental impact of tourism, the geographies of tourism and leisure economies, answering tourism industry and management concerns and the sociology of tourism and locations of tourism. Geography is largely the study of the interaction of all physical and human phenomena and landscapes created by such interactions.” It is about how, why and where human and natural activities occur and how these activities are interconnected. The geography of tourism is dominated by number of key themes, which relate location, place, space, human and cultural characteristics, and the movement of people. The geography of tourism is also concern with the flows of tourism from generating countries to the destinations. These can be heavily influenced by the economic and political factors, with the flows of tourism from traditionally from developed countries to the less developed countries.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2019
End Date :	07 Oct 2019
Enrollment Ends :	10 Sep 2019
Exam Date :	09 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Week – I | 1. Geography and Tourism. | 2. Geography of Travel. | 3. World Time zones. |

Week – II | 4. Antarctica | 5. Asia | 6. Africa |

Week – III | 7. North America | 8. Central and south America | 9. Australia |

Week - IV | 10. New Zealand | 11. Tourism features in European countries. | 12. Geographical & Climatic conditions in European countries |

Week – V | 13. Important tourism destinations in France | 14. Important tourism Destinations in UK | 15. Important tourism Destinations in Italy |

Week – VI | 16. Important tourism destinations in Germany | 17. Important tourism destinations in Switzerland | 18. Important tourism destinations in Greece |

Week – VII | 19. Important tourism destinations in Belgium & Holland. | 20. Important Tourism Destinations in other European countries.| 21.Tourism in Africa – Introduction: Part – I |

27. Tourism in USA: Part - I |

Books and references

Reading material	Author & Year	Type of publication (article/notes)	Content Abstract	Number of pages
Tourism Geography. Shree Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi.	Dr. Rana Pratap Dr. Kamala Prasad	Text Book	Tourism and Geography	208
Tourism Geography. Centrum Press, New Delhi.	Mrs.Geetanjali	Text Book	Basics of Tourism Geography	19
Geography of Tourism. Rajath Publications, New delhi.	MR. Subhash Chandra Sharma	Text Book	Tourism and Geography Interconnected.	265
An Introduction to the Geography of Tourism .Rawat Publications, New delhi.	Mr. Velvet Nelson	Text Book	Geography and Tourism	3
World Wide destination-The Geography of Travel and Tourism. Elsevier Publication, Sydney.	Brian Boniface and Chris Cooper	Text Book	Elements and Regional geography of Travel and Tourism.	135
Central America	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Central America.	4-774
Africa	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Africa	5-250
USA	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in USA	13-280
Central Asia	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Central Asia	4-192
Australia	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Australia	6-129
South America	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in South America	11-285
South East Asia	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in South East Asia	4-358
Antarctica	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Antarctica	13-268
Europe	Lonely Planet	Text Book	Important Tourism Destinations in Europe	7-256

Instructor bio

Dr. Sridevi Kulenur is currently working as Associate Professor at JSS Science and Technology University (JSSCMS)(SJCE) Mysore, has 10 years's of teaching experience.holds Doctor of Philosophy in Management from Visvesvaraya Technology University, Belgaum.

And has contributed towards publication of research papers in National and International Journals.also presented papers at National and International Conferences. Besides teaching, contribution extends in the field of Music As a Professional play back singer.

Course certificate

30% for in course Assessment & 70% of end-term Proctored exam. The Certificates will be available after Qualifying in the end-term online Proctored exam.

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