Review article

TOURISM AND LEISURE: POSSIBILITIES AND WAYS OF SPENDING FREE TIME

Stjepan Jagić ; Sveučilište u Zadru Odjel za pedagogiju

Abstract

The article analyses the essence of the relation between free time and tourism because they cannot be separated. Without free time there would be no travelling and no tourism. Many definitions of tourism also implicitly define the free time because they always emphasize the temporary movement and staying outside of the domicile, dedicated to activities not related to earning, such as entertainment, recreation, informal learning and other leisure activities. The pedagogy of free time (or leisure-time pedagogy) is interested in tourism because it is one of functional educational factors. Programmes of school excursions are at the same time specific tourist programmes which have an irreplaceable role and position in the system of out-of-school educational activities. They enable the use of immediate knowledge resources which are necessary and substantial for the high-quality education. Although the modern, highly sophisticated educational technology (audio and video devices and especially computers) should be acknowledged, it nevertheless cannot either evoke or substitute the significant sources of knowledge from the immediate reality. Those sources primarily enable the acquiring of personal experience, i.e. testing and application of information and knowledge acquired in school, mostly from the fields of natural sciences, geography, history, art history, language, etc. Modern tourism is marked by the first class educational and intercultural demands and functions because it calls for a lot of cultural awareness and special knowledge from all its active participants, making them so much more culturally rich that it assumes a special tourist culture that is at the same time the culture of spending free time. The educational essence and meaning of tourism is, simply said, reflected in the following principle: “Travel to learn — learn to travel”.

Keywords

work; free time; tourist; tourism; tourist culture; education

Hrčak ID:

139346

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/139346

Publication date:

20.5.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian german

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