Cultural Tourism as a Change Agent, 5 cr - TOU3PO312
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English
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Learning objectives
Cultural tourism as a change agent course helps students to recognize development challenges and future opportunities in cultural tourism in regional and local level. Furthermore, the students learn how to develop cooperation between various stakeholders of cultural tourism.
In addition, trend and megatrend analyses help the students to understand the change taking place and its impacts in cultural tourism demand. Project skills and understanding wider service concepts help the students in regional and local development work that is a part of the course.
The e-learning programme is implemented by JAMK, Haaga-Helia, Metropolia and LAB universities of applied sciences, as a co-operation between cultural production and tourism education. Each university of applied sciences produces studies for the common programme, which can be utilized by the participants in the training as agreed.
The cultural tourism programme consists of three five-credit courses, which are available for studying either individually or as a whole. Cultural Tourism as a Change Agent is the the third and the last course of the programme.
Please, take into account, that the enrollment to this course requires entry level of knowledge previously acquired either from this programme (An Approach to Cultural Tourism, 5 ECTS and From Idea to Product in Cultural Tourism, 5 ECTS) or in another way.