Name: Tourism Planning module/course
code:
PAR 62003
student workloads:
510 minutes/week Credits (ECTS):
4.53 ECTS
Semester:
4 Frequency:
odd Duration:
1 x per semester Type of courses:
Tutorial/Lecture/Response Contact hours:
150
minutes/week
Independent Study:
360
minutes/week
Class size X
students:
30
Students 1 Prerequisites for participation:
2 Learning outcomes:
1. Students are able to study and analyze the importance of proper tourism planning with involving tourism industry stakeholders.
2. Students are able to analyze strategic technical aspects in tourism planning in favor of environmental sustainability, sustainability of socio- cultural life and empowerment people's economy.
3. Students are able to understand and analyze the technological environment in the tourism industry and use it in preparing tourism planning.
4. Students are able to understand and analyze tourism development financing models both in the government and private sectors
5. Students are able to draw up a tourism planning design on a site scale by considering its relationship with tourism development on a regional, national and global scale.
3. Description:
The Tourism Planning Course carries a discussion theme that focuses on the importance of planning appropriate tourism to support the
development of tourism in the world economy is and continues to evolve, the resulting social change, and the sustainable growth that it brings expected. Besides considering aspects such as industry
competition and collaboration, This Tourism Planning lecture also discusses aspects of financing in tourism planning and the use of IT in the tourism planning process.
4. Subjects aims/ Content:
1. Introduction to tourism planning
2. Impact of tourism and sustainable tourism
3. Capitalist, centralized, and mixed economic systems 4. Key parties in tourism planning
5. Partnership and cooperation in tourism development activities 6. Tourism Industry Financing
7. Implementation of Sustainable Tourism Development 8. Tourism Development Planning Cycle
9. Strategic Tourism Planning
10. Tourism Planning at the National, Regional and Regional Levels
11. Competitive Destination Cluster Planning 12. Sustainable Tourism Planning at the Site Scale
13. Application of Information Technology in Tourism Planning 14. Tourism Planning Draft
5 Teaching Methods:
1. Lectures 2. Discussions 3. Group Work 4. Field studies
5. Collaborative learning group discussions
6 Assesment Methods:
1. Task
2. Mid- Term Exam 3. Final- Term Exam
7 Other information e.g. bibliographical references:
1. Leisure and Tourism Policy and Planning – A. J. Veal
2. Fundamentals of Planning and Developing Tourism – Bulent I.
Kastarlak & Brian barber
3. Tourism Policy and Planning – David L. Edgell, Maria D. Allen, Ginger Smith & Jason R. Swanson
4. Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management – Peter Mason 5. Tourism Planning – C. Michael Hall
6. Planning for Tourism, Leisure and Sustainability – Anthony S. Travis 7. The Competitive Destination – J.R. Brent Ritchie & Geoffrey L. Crouch