Course

Tourism: The Global Future - GENC6003

Faculty: Australian School of Business

School: School of Marketing

Course Outline: GENC6003 Course Outline

Campus: Sydney

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Excluded: All UG Business programs

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

Tourism is one of the major growth industries of the new millennium. The course examines contemporary global tourism issues from the perspectives of government, business and customers/visitors. The course is structured in two main parts: the first eight weeks cover three fundamentals of tourism - the tourism system, impacts and markets and marketing; the last four weeks examine the management and future challenges for tourism. In this course the wider significance of tourism is examined, looking at its economic, social, political and environmental importance.

Topics include the structure of the industry; the distribution of tourism products, and transport-related issues; sustainable tourism and conflicting imperatives of economic gains versus social impacts of tourism; climate change impacts; crisis management and the technological contribution to global tourism. governments and tourism - agents of regulation and promotion; tourism planning, innovation and technology; special interest tourism, such as eco-tourism; and the future of tourism, particularly as it relates to sustainability issues.
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