Creative Tourism: Food, Wine and Festivals

Course aim

To facilitate students understanding of food, wine and festivals as a special interest tourism by exploring various emerging issues and business practices in the context of creative tourism entrepreneurship.

Course content

Creative industry; the transformations of creative destinations; role of food, wine and festivals as ‘new’ tourist attractions; special interest tourism; emerging trends and issues in the food and wine tourism industry; taste of food and wine culture; international cuisines; fusion food industry; food entrepreneurs; culinary business and restaurant enterprises; wineries and tourism; creative entrepreneurship; arts, food and wine festivals; festivals and creativity.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Preparatory	1 x 1 week
Lecture	2 hours x 10 weeks
Tutorial	1 hour x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, CITY WEST (INTENSIVE)
Lecture	2 hours x 20 hours equivalent
Tutorial	1 hour x 10 hours equivalent
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External	3 hours x 10 weeks
INTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HONG KONG BAPTIST UNIVERSITY
Workshop	3 hours x 10 weeks

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

Assessment

Essay, Project

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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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.