Exploring the Tourist City: Venice and the Geography of Contemporary Tourism

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This course uses Venice as a case study to explore contemporary urban tourism from a geographical perspective. It integrates mobility, cultural, and governance approaches through a combination of classroom-based learning and field observation. Students examine global tourism dynamics, visitor flows, and urban pressures before engaging with key themes shaping tourist cities, including urban imaginaries, overtourism, sensory mobilities and tourism governance.

Through critical analysis and experiential methods, students develop skills in spatial interpretation, observation, and the analysis of cultural representations. Although grounded in Venice, the course equips students with transferable analytical tools to understand urban tourism challenges in cities worldwide and to consider strategies for more sustainable and inclusive tourism futures.

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