In the week from March 21 - March 24, 2022 UP FTŠ Turistica will host ddr. Dane Munro from the University of Malta within the Erasmus + program.
Prof. Munro will give lectures for students of the Master's program Heritage Tourism in the subject Religious Events and Pilgrimage Tourism and for students of the undergraduate program Management of Tourist Destinations (Ljubljana) in the subject Project Management.
The host is prof. dr. Tadeja Jere Jakulin.
About the lectures
Ddr. Dane Munro will carry out lectures on the following topics: pilgrimage, religious travel, dark tourism, and heritage interpretation), tourism segmentation (new trends in tourism, intercultural aspects in tourism, tourism planning, and policymaking).
March 22. 2022 at 4 pm Portorož - lecture room 002, subject of religious events and pilgrimage tourism
March 24, 2022 at 4 pm Ljubljana - classroom 3, subject Project Management
On the lecturer
Prof. Dane Munro is a Resident Academic at the Institute for Tourism, Travel and Culture (ITTC) at the University of Malta. His academic educational trajectory is marked by an MA in the Classics and a Ph.D. at the University of Malta in faith-based tourism and pilgrimage, while he also read for a Ph.D. at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands, in history, namely the culture of memoria and the identity of the knights of the Order of St John throughout the ages. His skills in the Classics and historical research have resulted in a standard publication on St John’s Co-Cathedral, Memento Mori and numerous publications in related journals, as well as a recent book on the identity of the Order, Memoria as Mirror. Munro is also an active pilgrim and researcher in the field of faith-based tourism and has published a wide variation of peer-reviewed articles dealing with interpretation and theorising of pilgrimage. He has gained international recognition for his publications. Dane serves as the President of the Sacra Militia Foundation, an academic organisation which conducts research regarding the Sovereign Military Order of Malta during their stay in Malta (1530-1798) and organises public lectures on the same topic.
Munro has worked in tourism for over 30 years, both in Malta and internationally, as adventure tour leader (trekking, canoeing), cultural tours, MICE organization and management, tour operation and as a tourist guide. A life-long passion with art and history, and as a seasoned tourism practitioner, he is able to enhance tourism lecturing, synthesise research outcome and expanding it meaningful to tourism stakeholders and tourists alike.
