Tourism and Cultural Territory

Code: SOC12121L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Tourism

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

11. Cidades e comunidades sustentáveis - Tornar as cidades e os assentamentos humanos inclusivos, seguros, resilientes e sustentáveis.

Learning Goals

Provide the students with theoretical and practical tools for identification and definition of policies and
strategies related to tourism and cultural territories.
Specific objectives: Understanding the relationship between tourism and cultural areas; Analyze the
importance and the impacts of tourism in cultural areas; Provide methodological tools for the planning and
development of tourism in rural and urban cultural territories. Provide analytical models to assess the
tourism potential of a cultural territory. Enhance students' creativity and capacity of initiative for the
development of the suggested unit works. Understanding the relationship between spaces and tourist
places in diverse cultural areas; Analyze the importance of community participation in various cultural
tourist areas; Provide students with tools for creating tourism products in cultural territories.

1-Tourism and Territory
1.1-Tourism and appropriation of territory
2- Tourism and Rural and Urban Cultural Territories
2.1 Impacts of tourism in Cultural Territories
2.2-Tourism, Cultural Territories and Sustainable Development
2.3 Case Studies
3-Typologies and Tourists Spaces models in Cultural Territories
3.1-Case Studies
4- Cultural Territories and Tourists Places
4.1 Tourist valorization and Image of Cultural Territories
4.2-Case Studies
5- Tourism Planning in Cultural Territories
5.1- Technics and Instruments
5.2- Stages of Planning
5.3 - Planning and Community Participation
5.4-Planning and Development of Cultural Tourism Products
6- Potential evaluation of Cultural Tourism in Territories

Teaching Methods

The course unit adopts active learning methodologies, combining theoretical content with case analysis and discussion, guided research, and the application of knowledge to territories, cultural resources and heritage. The use of generative Artificial Intelligence tools is permitted in activities specifically defined by the teaching team, particularly for exploration and idea generation, research support, information organisation and preparation of assignments. Their use must be critical, transparent and verifiable and must not replace the student's own analysis and interpretation or the consultation and validation of information through scientific, documentary, heritage and institutional sources. Whenever AI is used, students must identify the tool/model employed and document the relevant prompts and outputs, in accordance with the guidelines of the course unit and the University of Évora Framework for the Use of AI.

Assessment

Continuous assessment: assessment consists of a written test, weighted at 50%, and a practical assignment, weighted at 50% of the final grade for the course unit.
Examination assessment: in the regular, special and extraordinary examination periods, assessment consists of an examination weighted at 100% of the final grade for the course unit.
In assessed activities, the use of Artificial Intelligence tools is permitted only under the conditions and for the purposes defined by the teaching team. Whenever AI is used, its use must be transparently declared, identifying the tool/model and the tasks for which it was used. AI may not replace the student's intellectual authorship, critical analysis and interpretation, or the consultation and validation of the sources used. The use of AI is not permitted in the written test or examinations unless expressly authorised by the teaching team.
Whenever deemed necessary to verify the extent to which the student has developed the knowledge and competences established for the course unit, the teaching team may require the student to undertake an oral examination, pursuant to Article 110(13) of the Academic Regulations of the University of Évora, with the conditions set out in Article 116(4) and Article 118(1) of the same Regulations being ensured. The oral examination shall focus on the assessment component for which confirmation of the knowledge and competences demonstrated by the student is considered necessary and shall carry, in the final grade for the course unit, the same weighting as that assessment component.