CAT 361 — Traditional Market Forms
BA BA Culture and Tourism · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
This course is designed to assist students to know and understand the role periodic markets in particular play in traditional societies. The concept of traditional societies; the Trans-Sahara Trade; the central places geographical model; the Von Thunen concentric agricultural land-use theory; spatially interdependent societies vs. traditional/spatially restricted societies; bases for spatial interactions; aerial differentiation; traditional economic base studies; point sellers and linear markets; market locations and importance of markets; periodic markets/market days (airs); and case studies of the Asesewa, Techiman, Mankessim, Ada-Foah markets in Ghana.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 300
Other courses on this programme
- CAT 351 — Research Methods in Tourism I
- CAT 352 — Research Methods in Tourism II
- CAT 353 — Tourism and Development I
- CAT 354 — Tourism and Development II
- CAT 355 — Cultural Policies and Tourism Development
- CAT 356 — Tourism Plans and Policies
- CAT 357 — Tourism Entrepreneurship I
- CAT 358 — Tourism Entrepreneurship II
- CAT 359 — Health and Tourism
- CAT 360 — African Architecture
- CAT 362 — Traditional Foods
- CAT 363 — Indigenous Architecture
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