DIGITAL LIBRARY
METHODICAL APPROACHES TO THE CULTURAL-HERITAGE TOURISM STUDY
ATEI Thessaloniki (GREECE)
About this paper:
Appears in: ICERI2009 Proceedings
Publication year: 2009
Pages: 1860-1866
ISBN: 978-84-613-2953-3
ISSN: 2340-1095
Conference name: 2nd International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation
Dates: 16-18 November, 2009
Location: Madrid, Spain
Abstract:
The purpose of our project is to help the tourism students to cope with the improvement of cultural heritage tourism on the informational bases and cover the basic skills that are the foundation for the development of tourism activity management. Activity schedule of planning and management of the places of interested, style of heritage and culture interpretation, choosing effective ways of communication, serial models of plan making, creation a brand or vision about the relaxation in the site, dynamic organizing of tourist attractions-All these instructions for tourism management lead to structured methodical learning and create social learning scope about the heritage and cultural tourism. Methodical approach to these divisions directs to effective learning in management of tourist historic sites and gives general view about their planning. It is believed, the approaches can be helpful even to those who wants to have simple idea about the cultural tourism learning techniques and about the systems of arranging cultural visits. This following overall comprehension has great significance for the students studying cultural tourism: The consciousness of history and explanation skill, strong abilities of being a good coordinator and logician, researches in origin of historic properties- cities, monuments, landmarks, historic sites and their historic-linguistic based aspects. Foreign language background, getting linguistic knowledge, classes on the language history, proper communication skills and acquisition of the certain information providing abilities sustain our quality tourism study plan. The following facilities should be provided for the cultural tourism students: Advertising and tourism marketing lessons, the marketing strategy instructions, practice in planning and execution of the total marketing operation, organization group excursions to the museums or field trips with the intention to get more vital research. The tourism student must have the following wide range of skills and knowledge: the ability of grouping the museums consistent with the category of exhibited components, identification of elements with familiar characteristics based on the chronological periods of cultural changes and extensive competence in the recognition of architectural structure of monuments on the historical cultural bases, making a statistical review about the reservation of property for the touristic reasons, acquisition the ability of categorization and promotion of the certain sights and landmarks globally, appreciation the function of historic property in the growing tourism sector of the country or progress of tourism according to historical and cultural attributes. To execute theoretical analysis and practical realization of these upper indicated factors is becoming the most important aptitude in the cultural studies to facilitate the promising future of tourism.
Keywords:
heritage study, instructions, methodical approaches.