Course Image Course 1: Fundamentals of International Tourism

This topic will look at the concept of transnational entrepreneurship in tourism and will presented the fundamentals of international tourism. It will reveal the importance of tourism statistics. The development stages, which are subject of the transnational entrepreneurship in tourism are presented and analysed. The main types of tourism that can defined in transnational entrepreneurship such as the mass tourism, the activity-based tourism, the ecotourism and the geotourism are given. The increasing value of the international tourism will be clarified, and the transnational entrepreneurship will be analysed.

Elaborated by: Prof. N. Moussiopoulos and Dr. G. Perkoulidis, Greece