Tourism Eco-Management
AA 2018/2019
Scheda insegnamento
Mutuato da
Insegnamento integrato
- Altre attività in lingua (MAN0129)
- Altre attività in lingua III (MAN0190)
- Altre attività in lingua IV (MAN0191)
Moduli
Obiettivi e risultati
Contenuti
Programma
Tourism has been officially stated as the fastest growing economic sector in the world (UNWTO). Today, the business volume of tourism equals or even surpasses that of oil exports, food products or automobiles. The global spread of tourism in industrialized and developed states has produced economic and employment benefits in many related sectors - from construction to agriculture or telecommunications.
This growth goes hand in hand with other issues, related to environmental and social impacts. At international level, these concerns that have been faced, for the first time, in 1995, with the adoption of the Charter for Sustainable Tourism, at the first World Conference on Sustainable Tourism, held on the island of Lanzarote (Spain). Since then, the debate on Sustainable tourism, or Responsible tourism or Eco-tourism never stopped, and the United Nations 70th General Assembly has designated 2017 as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development (A/RES/70/193).
To conceive and to manage tourism activities applying the guidelines of Sustainable tourism leads to a significant shift in the tourism industry and the carrying out of tourism towards more responsible ways of conducting this activity, or in short, to the Eco-management.
The evolution of the paradigm can only be achieved through the knowledge, the comprehension and the diffusion of the principles and of the most relevant Eco-management models, that are available to tourism operators. Environmental Management Systems, Sustainability Reports and other schemes aimed to quantify products and productive sustainability will be explained and discussed.
The program concerns methodological fundamentals and success stories. The most relevant international management models will be described in detail and, through the presentation of success stories, the effectiveness of innovations will be analyzed and discussed.