| Level: |
5 |
| Credit rating: |
20 |
| Module type: |
Taught |
| Semester offered: |
2 |
| Pre-requisites: |
None |
| Aims: |
To enable students to:
- Develop understanding of tourism planning concepts, approaches and applications at community, regional and national levels in developed and emerging markets
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| Learning outcomes: |
By the end of the module students will be able to:
- Summarise the different types of tourism planning approaches
- Analyse the roles of various levels of government and international organizations in tourism planning and policy making
- Assess appropriate planning case studies
- Evaluate the role of community participation in tourism planning
- Discuss the special planning requirements and sensitivities of emerging markets (developing nations)
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| Content: |
- Destination mobility systems (destinations as interconnected places and spaces shaped by various forms of mobility)
- Tourism spaces (production, consumption and circulation: political economy of tourism)
- Sustainability, power, relationships, networks (notions of 'community', stakeholders, excluded groups, pressure/ lobbying groups)
- Sustainable Tourism policy and strategy making (evidence based policies into practice)
- Assessing destination attributes
- Approaches to tourism planning (local, regional, master planning)
- Role of various levels of government/ International organisations in tourism policy and planning (Supranational, international, national regional and local)
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| Learning and teaching strategies: |
Total Learning Hours: 200
Contact Hours: 48 consisting of lectures, seminars and workshops
Private and Directed study 152 hours
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| Learning support: |
Gunn, C. (2002) Tourism Planning (4th ed.) New York: Routledge
Hall, C. M. (2000) Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships Harlow: Prentice Hall
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