Placemaking and Public Space Design: Unlocking Tourist Destinations

What makes a top tourist destination? Discover what gives a destination ‘place potential’ and build skills for working in tourism. When it comes to tourist destinations, a successful space must make people visiting from afar feel welcome. This course invites you to examine what we can learn from high-end hospitality and tourist destinations around the world.

About the course

This course looks at how public space has evolved over time to understand what makes it successful. An important factor when designing a place or a building is to take climate factors into account, as it determines how it is used. To increase the value of our public spaces, and to make them more usable for different people, you need to know what the local conditions are.

What will you learn?

The course provides you with basic knowledge about the design of public spaces, in different places and destinations. You will learn how to analyse public spaces and identify their potential. The course explores three key themes, which together illuminate the overall question: What makes a place successful for both residents and tourists?

You explore:

• The elements of the built and unbuilt environment that create attractive public places for people and their use of the environments.
• How the local microclimate of public spaces is a result of the interaction between buildings and weather.
• Case studies showing how the design of the built environment can improve the local microclimate in public space to improve comfort.

By the end of the course you will be able to:

• Explain how successful public spaces can generate visitor destinations and commercial values.
• Analyse the competitive advantages of public space for the hospitality industry.
• Explain how built and unbuilt environments together create local microclimates.
• Reflect on different scenarios for the hospitality industry.
  

Who is the course for?

The course is designed for those who want to gain a better understanding of place development in the hospitality industry. This includes those who want to develop places as part of the tourism industry, as well as to train and learn about new working methods in the hospitality industry.

How does it work?

You only need a computer or other device and internet connection to be able to do the course. When you register, you will get access to the course material, which consists of, for example, videos, texts, quizzes and exercises.

With a wealth of experience and expertise in industrial engineering and management, Luleå University of Technology is able to provide great support to anyone enrolled and studying with them.

The lead educator also has extensive knowledge on project management, process management, and problem-based learning. With such high standards, you can expect an equally impressive placemaking course.

How to register

• Register here External link, opens in new window.