European City of Culture

www.citymayors.com/culture/eurocities/_culture

Learning Objectives

To know a definition for heritage and cultural and purpose built destinations.

To know what the European City of culture is and be able to explain why certain destinations are selected.

To know what purpose built attractions are and give examples

To understand how destination types can fall in to more than one category and can be difficult to determine.

Heritage and Cultural Destinations

• ‘Heritage’ means a place has inherited and still shows the benefits of history or past events

• ‘Cultural’ means that a place helps visitors appreciate and understand the customs and civilisation of a society, including their literature, art , music and more…

Cultural Cities

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYUI4D9Gag

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsOxh1IGRFw

• Create a mind map to show the features of a heritage and cultural destination.

Task• Research the European city of Culture programme to find out

what cities have been given the title in past years, and what cities could be given the title ‘cultural capital’ in the future.

• Select one of the recent cities chosen and investigate why you think the city was nominated. What features appeal to the tourist? Explain the transport routes available to access the city.

• For each year to 2019 the country for the cultural capital has been decided, but the actual city has not. Recommend a city for each year and justify why you think they should receive the award.

Purpose Built Destinations

Purpose Built Destination

Lets have a look at some

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFzw5YJLmohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J3w705D4Qk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_hRhqnHFBkhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UpI1peiBcc

Task (Homework)

• Gather information about one holiday complex, one sport complex and one theme park.

• For each, create a 1 page fact sheet on their location, the main attractions available, the facilities and the types of accommodation available.

• You must complete this for homework and hand in next week