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Psychology and Sociology in Tourism

Summary

The subject is designed to bring the student psychological and sociological findings which can help him or her to act efficiently in tourism, especially when dealing with clients, communicating with colleagues, managing human resources and operating on the market.
Within the framework of individual psychology, attention is paid especially to questions of determination of the term “individuality”, its development and structure, focused on individual motivation.
Further on, the student is made acquainted with chosen chapters of work psychology, for example with social groups questions, social relations, social climate, managing stress situations etc.
The question of goods, its supply and demand; consumer behaviour and influence but also communication and market promotion are analysed from the psychological point of view.
The student will also gain basic orientation in market research issues.

Literature

SKINNER, Jonathan and Dimitrios THEODOSSOPOULOS. Great Expectations: Imagination and Anticipation in Tourism (New Directions in Anthropology). Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2011. ISBN 978-0857452771 .
WEARING, Stephen, Deborah STEVENSON and Tamara YOUNG. Tourist Cultures: Identity, Place and the Traveller. London: Sage Publications, 2010. ISBN 978-0761949985 .

Advised literature

CARR, Neil. Children's and Families' Holiday Experience (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility). New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN 978-0415545433 .


Language of instruction čeština, čeština, čeština
Code 115-0308
Abbreviation PSCR
Course title Psychology and Sociology in Tourism
Coordinating department Department of Management
Course coordinator PhDr. Ing. Aleš Mateiciuc, Ph.D.