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Umeå University
Tourism and Sustainable Development
The course focuses on giving an overview of international tourism research including the nexus between tourism and geography, such as human mobility. How societal changes influence traveling, and, on the other hand, how traveling influences society and environment in various geographical contexts is discussed. As pa…
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Overview
The course focuses on giving an overview of international tourism research including the nexus between tourism and geography, such as human mobility. How societal changes influence traveling, and, on the other hand, how traveling influences society and environment in various geographical contexts is discussed. As part of this, a historical overview of sustainable development addresses how societal changes influence traveling in general as well as in tourism studies is given. Different scientific approaches to research into tourism are presented and the production of tourism, globalization and its impact on different places, various forms of tourism, the nexus between tourism, nature, and society, and finally, tourism policy and planning for tourism are put in relation to current debates on sustainable development.
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Univ: 120 ECTS, 60 ECTS of which in human geography or equivalently. Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper secondary course English 6/level 2
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- 2026-08-31
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- Education offering e.uoh.umu.2kg401.f2906.20262
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- 2026-09-23T10:39:28.642986+00:00
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- i.uoh.umu.2kg401.f2906.20262
- Offering identity in the source
- e.uoh.umu.2kg401.f2906.20262
- Education-form source code
- HS
- Education code in the source
- 2KG401
- Change time according to the source
- 2025-12-11T14:08:51
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