Thematic circuits to SZZ (state final exam) – subject ECR

 

 

ECR (Informatics and economy of travel movement)

 

1.      Tourism development trends and tourism sustainability. Definition of tourism sustainability and ways/techniques/methods/approaches to the sustainable tourism.

2.      Monitoring, tourism sustainability indicators, carrying capacity concept. Critical discussion of carrying capacity concept.

3.      Case studies of destinations with sustainable and unsustainable tourism according to own choice. At unsustainable destinations application of tools for tourism impacts optimalisation and growing tourism sustainability.

4.      Tourism sustainability in protected areas – specific problems of tourism in protected areas, connection to tourism trends, and methodology of tourism sustainability. Tools discussion – strategy creation, participative management, marketing etc. Role of state management of protected areas.

5.      Destination development in the destination life cycle concept. Concrete destination examples. Tourism sustainability tools discussion in the destination life cycle concept.

6.      Possibilities of destination presentation with ICT (recommendations for web pages, multimedia use, virtual reality, mental map, photographs, connection of web resources etc.). Concept of regional information and monitoring system. Chosen concrete examples (possibility of chosen searched resources presentation via PC).

7.      State tourism information system – concept, history in the Czech Republic, problems of realisation, approaches to realisation (roles of web pages quality recommendation, connection to regional IS, data collecting and actualisation etc.).

8.      Global distribution systems – history, structure of services, connection of GDS and CRS, GDS operating (travel agencies), connection with software for marketing a management tourism subjects, trends, today's and future role, connection GDS with Internet, HDTV, LBS. Concrete GDS gateways examples.

9.      Concept and application of ICT examples at chosen tourism subject (for example air company, hotel chain).

10.  Discussion of chosen technologies – GPS, LBS, multimedia, GIS, virtual/pseudo virtual reality/3D presentation, active maps etc. Trends in ICT application in tourism.

11.  Specifics of tourism marketing – specifics of tourism product, marketing mix 8P+ICT, strategy connected to limited tourism resources (Yield management, demarketing).

12.  Price as tourism marketing tool – use specics, role in the package, loayality programms etc. Geographical, season, and other price determinants.

13.  Tourism market in the world and Europe (structure, development trends, statistics, methods of market study, tourist types, tourism kinds and forms, economics development and tourism).

14.  Analyses of marketing of chosen type of tourism subject (airline company, hotel chain, car rental company etc.). General about subject marketing and one chosen concrete example at minimum.

 

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