MKG3540

Tourism management processes

Dr Yvette Reisinger

6 points · Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week · Distance, approximately 12 hours per week · On campus, second semester · Gippsland · Prerequisite: MGG1501

Objectives The primary objective of this subject is to extend the knowledge gained in previous tourism management subjects and demonstrate how it can be applied to the management of tourist destination regions and the coordination of tourism provisions therein. It aims also to cultivate appropriate attitudes with respect to the sustainability - economic, social and environmental - of a region's tourism resources and activities.

Synopsis Destination area organisations, destination area development, management for sustainability, the socio-cultural environment; economic sustainability, marketing planning and research, target marketing, tourism and the community.

Assessment Two essays (3000 words each): 50% · Examination (3 hours): 50%

Prescribed texts

Heath E and Wall G Marketing tourist destinations: A strategic planning approach Wiley, 1992
Middleton V T C Marketing in travel and tourism Heinemann, 1988

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