Policy and Planning for Sustainable Tourism

Course aim

This course offers students an opportunity to study the policy, planning, development and management of one of the fastest growing sectors in the global economy. Viewing tourism as a major influence on socio-cultural, environmental and economic sectors, the course investigates the planning and development of tourism in a strategic and embedded way. This course encourages students to consider site specific, local, regional and global influences and implications of tourism development as a path to economic development and positive futures for places and communities around the world. The primary aim of this course is to provide students with the skills and understanding to critically reflect on diverse approaches to tourism planning and how sustainable and fair futures might be better secures.

Course content

This course addresses: critical understandings of terms tourism, policy, planning, development and economic growth; understanding sustainability in a tourism context and the tensions with goals for economic growth; the impacts of the sustainable development paradigm; changing dimensions of tourism planning and reason to plan; an overview of tourism impacts and sustainable planning for tourism; planning and policy as theory and systems approaches to tourism; understanding integrated planning processes, strategic tourism planning, coordination, collaboration and stakeholder management; understanding the complex layers of tourism planning from the global to the local, multiple layers of governance and roles of different organisations and authorities; ethics and notions of the public good in tourism policy and planning; planning destinations and competition and cooperation; sustainable site design through an ecological approach; the problem of implementation of plans and policies and instruments for implementing policy; special topics in tourism policy and planning for critical and contemporary insight; developing a thoughtful, engaged and reflective approach to tourism and events management, sustainability as a holistic paradigm.

Textbook(s)

Hall, CM 2008, Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships, 2nd edn, Pearson Education, England

Prerequisite(s)

Plus successful completion of 49.5 units.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Examination, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.