Urban Economic History 2024/2025

 - The evolution of urban tourism from Grand Tour to Airbnb

- Events, mega-events and urban tourism 

- The tourist-historic city: managing the heritage and branding the cities 

- The dark side of overtourism in historic cities: an open debate 

Attending students will be required to prepare a presentation on topics indicated during the course. The presentation will be the object of in-class debates and will be evaluated for the final grade. Active participation to the lessons will be evaluated too.  

Texts:

- Ueli Gyr, The History of Tourism: Structures on the Path to Modernity, in “European History Online” (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz 2010-12-03. https://d-nb.info/1020543884/34 

- Sonja Oklobdžija, The role of events in tourism development, January 2015, Bizinfo Blace 6(2):83-97, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/293478773_The_role_of_events_in_tourism_development  

- Patrice Ballestrer, World Expo and Tourism - a new Utopia? From London 1851 to Dubai 2021, in “Etudes Caribbéenne”, 2017  https://www.academia.edu/35977221/World_Expo_and_Tourism_-_a_new_Utopia_From_London_1851_to_Dubai_2020  

- Greg Richards,  Tourism trends: The convergence of culture and tourism, 2014 https://www.academia.edu/9491857/Tourism_trends_The_convergence_of_culture_and_tourism 

-  Harold Goodwin, The challenge of overtourism, in “Responsible Tourism Partnership Working” Paper 4, October 2017 https://haroldgoodwin.info/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/rtpwp4overtourism012017.pdf