Course Details

1. Identify practices of Architectural Design which aim to promote the place as a tourist export product.
2. Identify the authenticity of a place as a strong factor in the competitive tourism industry
3. Analyze strategic design methods which implement a tourism destination to differentiate against competitors.
4. Define the factors leading to the modern architectural design in order to express specific instructions and promote the place as a tourist product.

The dominance of the image in the Tourist Industry

Architecture and Authentic Tourist Experience

Types of tourism

Positive and Negative Factors of Tourism

“Building unique object” in the Tourism Industry

Sustainable development proposals for the Cyprus Tourism

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The teaching of the course is supplemented by lectures for his theoretical background. The aim of the lectures is to supplement the educational process and to broaden their areas of interest of students asking questions, concerns, providing references and specific examples and suggesting approaches and methodologies.
Educational visits are essential to the process of education because students are the means of personal contact and personal experience of each student with the object.
The presentations are an integral part of the educational process, enhancing on many levels. As a mean of self-assessment and as a tool working time students.