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Leisure and Tourism Psychology

 INTRODUCTION

Course Organisation

March/April lectures, from May first half lecture, second half presentation.

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Projects will be done with a presentation during the course and a assignment paper (min. 6 pages per group member). Presentations will count for 30% of the final note, the assignment paper will count for 70% of the final note.

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 INTRODUCTION

"For an industry which sells no tangible goods or necessary services but dreams, emotions, experiences and memories, it is important to understand the psychological processes determining the form and content of conscious and unconscious responses to the Leisure and Tourism System.

The students will be introduced to the history and cultural differences of forces influencing the “mental programming” of specific personality structures of individuals and groups and its effect on behaviour, motivation and experiencing in Leisure and Tourism activities and perceptions."  

Sociology considers the touristic behaviour of groups of persons,

Psychology is interested in the behaviour of individual persons.

Social Psychology is interested to "understand and explain how the thought, feeling, and behavior of individuals are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others" (Allport, 1985). The goal of Social Psychology is to find out how and why the majority members of a given sub-group is reacting to a specific social input, so to be able to predict how a similar type of persons will react in the future.

 Contact: wolfgang.arlt@fh-stralsund.de  Office: 1/132, Tel. (03831) 45 6961