Geography of Tourism

·         Introduction: geography of tourism: origins, concepts, methods

·         Typology and evolution of tourism places

·         New dynamics of metropolitan tourism

·         Global Heritage: tourism geographies at World Heritage sites

·         Emerging destinations and instant cities: tourism geographies of Las Vegas and Dubai

·         Vulnerability-Heritage and Tourism

·         ‘Third World’ tourism: the relationship of tourism and development. The contribution of tourism to development and underdevelopment

·         Tourism and landscape: landscapes of tourism. Tourism consumption and space

·         Landscapes of a new cultural economy of space: contemporary global processes of spatial re-organization and re-articulation through tourism

·         The social geography of Athens. Α brief outline of the city’s development and of its socio-spatial patterns). The question of gentrification and the influence of rising tourist flows on the city’s housing market