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230057 SE Vulnerability of the Tourism sector - From Mass tourism to Mask Tourism (2021S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 23 - Soziologie
Continuous assessment of course work
ON-SITE
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: German

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Exkursion nach St. Wolfgang oder St. Kanzian am Klopeiner See in Planung für den Zeitraum 04.06.2021 bis 06.06.2021.

  • Tuesday 09.03. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 23.03. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 20.04. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 04.05. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 18.05. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 01.06. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Friday 04.06. 09:00 - 18:00 extern
  • Saturday 05.06. 09:00 - 18:00 extern
  • Sunday 06.06. 09:00 - 18:00 extern
  • Tuesday 15.06. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital
  • Tuesday 29.06. 14:15 - 16:15 Digital

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Over the past year, our lives have changed in different ways. For example our travel behavior has changed from an international to a national one. In addition travel is subject to considerable conditions. Regions and places that live off of tourism are economically affected. The transition from mass tourism to (mask) tourism adapted to the pandemic is the focus of this seminar.

While mass tourism has created tension between the local and the global, the particular and the universal, the newly created “distance tourism” struggles with acceptance problems, envy and stigmatization. The reputation of tourism to be a "white industry", i.e. to be more ecologically compatible than other industries, seems to be even more damaged under the new conditions. A new hope emerged that a new tourism culture will develop that is less socially and ecologically stressful. An example is Venice, which is showing itself in a completely new way due to the decline in visitor flows.

The following questions are to be addressed: How will tourism change under the conditions of a pandemic? (How) can the industry adapt to the new conditions? How does the perception of authenticity change through new measures suitable for pandemics? How do people affected by mass tourism think about the situation? What is the significance of austrification of tourism?

The aim of this course is to work on and analyze the phenomenon of mass tourism under the aspect of the pandemic with tourism-related concepts of authenticity or load capacity and the sociological concept of mass.

The course prepares for a field stay in St. Wolfgang or St. Kanzian am Klopeiner See during 04.06. - 06.06.2021. Observations and interviews with travelers and local stakeholders are planned for this field visit.
The concept of the inverted classroom will be used.

Assessment and permitted materials

Regular participation is important. During the semester small to-do's will accompany the research process. At the end of the semester a presentation of the research results must be held and a research paper (possibility of group work) must be submitted.

Note from the SPL:
The provision of all partial services is a prerequisite for a positive assessment, unless something else was explicitly noted.
If individual compulsory partial performances are not provided, the course is deemed to be abandoned. If there is no important and unpredictable reason for the student to fail to perform, the course will be assessed negatively.
If there is such a reason (e.g. a longer illness), the student can also be canceled from the course after the deadline. The course management decides whether there is an important reason. The application for deregistration must be submitted immediately after the reason has occurred.
If a part of the performance is fraudulently obtained, i.e. cheated during an examination or a test, plagiarized in a written work or if the signatures on attendance lists are falsified, the entire course will be rated as "not assessed" and entered in the grade recording system with the note "cheated / fraudulently" .
In the course of the assessment, plagiarism software (Turnitin in Moodle) can be used: details will be announced by the lecturer in the course.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

You may miss one class. If you are not able to come on the fieldtrip, appropriate compensation work is necessary. A research paper must be submitted at the end of the semester.

Participation (20%)
Submission of regular tasks (20%)
Presentation of the results (20%)
Research paper (40%)

Examination topics

Work in teams or alone; regular tasks during the semester; presentation; research paper

Reading list

Canetti Elias (1994) Masse und Macht. Frankfurt a.M.: Fischer
Gössling , S., Scott, D. & Hall, M.C. (2021). Pandemics, tourism and global change: a rapid assessment of COVID-19, In: Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 29(1), p. 1-20.
Rickly Jillian M., Vidon Elizabeth S. (2018) Authenticity & Tourism, Materialities, Perceptions, Experiences. Bingley: Emerald Publ.
Qiu, R. T. R., Park, J., Li, S., & Song, H. (2020). Social costs of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic. In: Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 84, online, (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738320301389 )
Pappas, N. (2021). COVID19: Holiday intentions during a pandemic. In: Tourism Management, Vol. 84, online, (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517721000066 )
Goodwin Harold (2017) The Challenge of Overtourismism (http://haroldgoodwin.info/pubs/RTPWP4Over-tourism01%272017.pdf)

Association in the course directory

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