Courses DescriptionsCourse's structure is presented below:
Course's structure is presented below:
Upon completion of the Course, students should be able to:
CO1. Understand and interpret the notions of cultural heritage and tourism in terms of current models and theories and distinguish between cultural, institutional, organizational, and communicational aspects that may hinder the interplay of cultural heritage and tourism (cultural tourism).
CO2. Detect and estimate the challenges related to preservation of cultural heritage and tourism management.
CO3. Recognize the complexity of the interplay between tourism and cultural heritage.
CO4. Formulate a research question in the field of cultural tourism and link it to current research and advanced scholarship.
CO5. Demonstrate ability to synthesize variables and components from different research fields and more specifically cultural heritage and tourism.
CO6. Reflect upon their own learning process and develop their soft skills (management, interpersonal, etc.) which are of great importance when dealing with the notions of cultural heritage and tourism.
CO7. Critically understand the importance and the effect of cultural tourism in local regional development.
1. Introduction to Cultural Heritage
2. Introduction to Economics of Tourism
3. Heritage and the Economic Development Agenda: Conceptual and methodological considerations
4. Cultural Tourism & Regional Financial Development
5. Calculating the economic value of the Investments in Cultural Heritage: methods and approaches
6. Cultural Services Supply Subject and the Process of Marketization
7. Heritage and Territory
8. Marketing, Tourism and Cultural Heritage
9. Tourism and Cultural Heritage I
10. Tourism and Cultural Heritage II
11. Abstract and Presentation
12. Group Presentation
Required reading:
Dallen T., (2011). Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction. Bristol: Channel View.
Keller, P. and Bieger, T. (eds.) (2011). Tourism Development after the Crises: Global Imbalances – Poverty Alleviation, Berlin: Erich Schmidt Verlag
Telfer, D. J. and Sharpley, R. (2016). Tourism and Development in the Developing World, Abingdon: Routledge.
Edgell, D. L. Sr. and Swanson, J. R. (2013). Tourism Policy and Planning: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, 2nd Edition, Abingdon: Routledge.
Throsby, D. (2001) Economics and Culture. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Mergos, G. & Patsavos, N. (2017) Cultural Heritage as Economic Value: Economic Benefits, Social Opportunities and Challenges of Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Development, Athens:Inherit.
Extra reading:
Allen Consulting Group. 2005. Valuing the Priceless: The Value of Historic Heritage in Australia. Research Report 2. Sydney: Heritage Chairs and Officials of Australia and New Zealand.
Armbrecht, John. 2014. “Use Value of Cultural Experiences: A Comparison of Contingent Valuation and Travel Cost.” Tourism Management 42 (6): 141–48.
Bandarin, Francesco, and Ron van Oers. 2012. The Historic Urban Landscape: Managing Heritage in an Urban Century. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
Becker, Gary S. 1964. Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education. New York: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Bedate, Ana, Luis César Herrero, and José Ángel Sanz. 2004. “Economic Valuation of the Cultural Heritage: Application to Four Case Studies in Spain.” Journal of Cultural Heritage 5(1): 101–11.
Benhamou, Françoise. 2011. “Heritage.” In A Handbook of Cultural Economics, edited by Ruth Towse, 255–62. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Bigio, Anthony G., and Guido Licciardi. 2010. The Urban Rehabilitation of Medinas: The World Bank Experience in the Middle East and North Africa. Urban Development Series Knowledge Papers 9. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. “Forms of Capital.” In Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by John G. Richardson, 241–58. New York: Greenwood.
Carson, Richard T., Robert C. Mitchell, and Michael B. Conaway. 2002. “Economic Benefits to Foreigners Visiting Morocco Accruing from the Rehabilitation of the Fes Medina.” In Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts, edited by Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready, 118–41. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Cernea, Michael M. 2001. Cultural Heritage and Development: A Framework for Action in the Middle East and North Africa. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Choi, Andy S., Brent W. Ritchie, Franco Papandrea, and Jeff Bennett. 2010. “Economic Valuation of Cultural Heritage Sites: A Choice Modeling Approach.” Tourism Management 31(2): 213–20.
Choi, Jong-Deok. 2010. “The Palace, the City and the Past: Controversies Surrounding the Rebuilding of the Gyeongbok Palace in Seoul, 1990–2010.” Planning Perspectives 25 (2): 193–213.
Costanza, Robert, and Herman E. Daly. 1992. “Natural Capital and Sustainable Development.” Conservation Biology 6 (1): 37–46.
Cross, Robin, Andrew J. Plantinga, and Robert N. Stavins. 2011. “What Is the Value of Terroir?” American Economic Review 101 (3): 152–56.
Cuccia, Tiziana. 2011. “Contingent Valuation.” In A Handbook of Cultural Economics, edited by Ruth Towse, 90–99. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Douguet, Jean-Marc, and Martin O’Connor. 2003. “Maintaining the Integrity of the French Terroir: A Study of Critical Natural Capital in Its Cultural Context.” Ecological Economics 44 (2– 3): 233–54.
El Serafy, Salah. 1991. “The Environment as Capital.” In Ecological Economics: The Science and Management of Sustainability, edited by Robert Costanza, 168–75. New York: Columbia University Press.
Hutter, Michael, and Ilde Rizzo, eds. 1997. Economic Perspectives on Cultural Heritage. London: Macmillan.
Jansson, AnnMari, Monica Hammer, Carl Folke, and Robert Costanza, eds. 1994. Investing in Natural Capital: The Ecological Economics Approach to Sustainability. Washington, DC: Island. Mason, Randall, ed. 1999. Economics and Heritage Conservation: A Meeting Organized by the Getty Conservation Institute, December 1998, Getty Center, Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute.
Mason, Randall. 2005. Economics and Historic Preservation: A Guide and Review of the Literature. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution.
Mason, Randall. 2008. “Be Interested and Beware: Joining Economic Valuation and Heritage Conservation.” International Journal of Heritage Studies 14 (4): 303–18.
Mazzanti, Massimiliano. 2003. “Valuing Cultural Heritage in a Multi-Attribute Framework Microeconomic Perspectives and Policy Implications.” Journal of Socio-Economics 32 (5): 549–69.
Moorhouse, John C., and Margaret Supplee Smith. 1994. “The Market for Residential Architecture: 19th Century Row Houses in Boston’s South End.” Journal of Urban Economics 35 (3): 267–77.
Navrud, Ståle, and Richard C. Ready, eds. 2002. Valuing Cultural Heritage: Applying Environmental Valuation Techniques to Historic Buildings, Monuments and Artifacts. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Peacock, Alan. 1995. “A Future for the Past: The Political Economy of Heritage.” Proceedings of the British Academy 87:189–243.
Razzu, Giovanni. 2005. “Urban Redevelopment, Cultural Heritage, Poverty and Redistribution: The Case of Old Accra and Adawso House.” Habitat International 29 (3): 399–419.
Rizzo, Ilde, and Anna Mignosa, eds. 2013. Handbook on the Economics of Cultural Heritage. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
Rizzo, Ilde, and David Throsby. 2006. “Cultural Heritage: Economic Analysis and Public Policy.” In Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, edited by Victor A. Ginsburgh and David Throsby, 1:983–1016. Handbooks in Economics 25. Amsterdam: Elsevier (North-Holland).
Rizzo, Ilde, and Ruth Towse, eds. 2002. The Economics of Heritage: A Study of the Political Economy of Culture in Sicily. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
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The overall academic performance of students is based on the assessment of a written assignment, on a formative assessment and their performance in the final exams. A passing mark in the mid-term assignment is not a prerequisite for his/her participation in the final exams. The final grade awarded to each student is the sum of the grades awarded for the assignment and the final exams. Both the assignments and the final exams are marked in the scale 0 (complete failure) to 100 (absolute success). In order to get a passing mark in the Course, a student must receive a passing mark in the final exams. In a nutshell:
