CRE58 Regional Economy and Hospitality

University College Prague – University of International Relations and Institute of Hospitality Management and Economics, Ltd.
summer 2020
Extent and Intensity
2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Ing. Jiří Zelený, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the basic principles of regional (regional) and municipal (municipal) economy.
Learning outcomes
Knowledge: The student defines the basics of regionalism and identifies the basic principles of regional policy at both the European Union level and in the Czech Republic.
Abilities: The student is able to elaborate the outline structure of the strategic plan, the municipal and regional development program and formulates the relationship of regional development, tourism and hotel industry.
Skills: The student analyzes the causes of regional disparities and characterizes the possibilities of their solution, mainly through the development of internal tourism and investment construction in the hotel industry. It also controls the foundations of public administration and formulates recommendations for public authorities at different territorial levels.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction to subject study - requirements for successful completion of subject, recommended literature. Basic concepts of regional sciences, regionalistics, regionalism, regional development, regional policy of regionalization. Theory of the region.
  • 2. The relation of regional development to the fields of science - economics, geography, sociology, political science, demography, territorial planning. State policies and regional development - economic, industrial, transport, agricultural, environmental, social, housing, tourism, research and innovation.
  • 3. Regional politics - reasons and motives of existence, goal, historical development, concepts, tools. Regional policy in the European Union - historical development, goals, principles. Public support and the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) and their link tourism and hotel industry.
  • 4. Regional policy in the Czech Republic - current situation, legislative framework, supported regions (economic problematic, socially disadvantaged, military estates), institutional security. Regional structure in the Czech Republic - natural, criteria for definition of VÚSC, NUTS / LAU regions.
  • 5. Regional development and spatial planning - methodology, spatial and local planning. Territorial Development and Planning - procedure, territorial plan. Authorization process and its impact on investment construction in the hotel industry. Sustainable development - philosophy, pillars.
  • 6. Regional disparities - definition of the concept, approach, development, solution problematics. European and national programs for regional development - European thematic, operational, cross-border programs, international cooperation programs, national grant titles.
  • 7. Settlements and settlement structure - development, structure, concept of settlement, settlements, urban and rural community. Urbanization, suburbanization, desurbanization processes and their specifics.
  • 8. The importance of public administration in the regional economy - public administration (state administration and local government), municipalities, higher territorial administrative units, specialized territorial authorities. Building office as a part of the state execution.
  • 9. Strategy and programming of regional development - strategic management, regional and municipal management, programmatic security.
  • 10. Programs of development of municipalities, towns and regions - development programs of municipalities and regions, purpose, content, specifics, processing, strategic planning.
  • 11. Regional development and tourism - relationship, specifics, multiplication effects, tourism region and its place in the general system of regions. Regional policy and its relationship to tourism policy - strategic analysis documents at the state level.
  • 12. Evaluation of the regional benefits of the selected tourism project and the hotel industry for the development of the destination - multiplier effect, Ogilvie equalization function and its use in tourism and hotel industry. Core theory - periphery. Schmidhauser's Wallis coefficient and impact of the employment project. EIA and SEA.
  • 13. Summary and repetition of the subject.
Literature
    required literature
  • Jansson, J. O. The Economics of Services - Microfoundations, Development and Policy. Second Edition, 2013, Sweden. ISBN 978-0-85793-217-4.
  • Bert van Wee. The Transport System and Transport Policy - An Introduction. University of Oxford, UK, 2013. ISBN 978-0-85793-689-9
    recommended literature
  • David W. Parker. Service Operations Management. The Total Experience University of Queensland Business School, Australia, 2012. ISBN 978-1-78100-622-1.
  • Sokol, M. Economic Geographies of Globalisation - A Short Introduction. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, 2011. ISBN 978-1-84980-149-2.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
The course is also listed under the following terms summer 2019, summer 2021, summer 2022, summer 2023, summer 2024.
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