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The module is focused on sustainable tourism as a guiding principle to improve the competitiveness of the company operating in the tourism sector. Starting from the increasing competition among tourism destinations the module also highlights the vital role of the company in supporting local development.
The module offers a systemic view based on an integrated and multidimensional approach and on long term objectives.

PART I – INTRODUCTION
1) Course description
2) Proper and Improper tourism
3) Tourist-receiving regions. Configurations
4) Models to interpret touristic territories

PART II – SUSTAINABLE TOURISM
1) The debate on sustainable tourism
2) International resolutions
3) EU sustainable tourism policies
4) The substitutability between economy and environment
5) Strategies to improve competitiveness:
- The role of stakeholders in favouring local development
- The role of the company operating in the tourism sector in favouring local development
- Tourist accomodations and the territory. Some relations.
- Tourist-receiving activities, environment and sustainability. Strategies for improving attractiveness
6) Proactive tools for the company:
- EMAS
- Ecolabel
- FEE tools
- Local A21
- Socioeconomic and environmental indicators
- Environmental Accounting Systems
- Ecological Footprint Analysis
7) The organization of a Universal Exposition: Expo Milano 2015.
- Critical analysis
- sharexpo
8) Case studies