Undergraduate - UnitMGP2601 - Tourism planning

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Offered	Not offered in 2012
Coordinator(s)	Dr Glen Croy

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to the tourism planning process, approaches to tourism planning, and planning analysis. Through our individual and collective experiences, this unit will develop an understanding of tourism planning that will enable new interpretations of how tourism can be prepared for at national, local and business levels. The main areas covered include success and failure, resource and protected area planning, macro to micro planning contexts, business planning components, and climate change planning.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

apply resource management techniques to tourism planning
analyse the macro to micro contexts of tourism planning
comprehend tourism systems and industry
deconstruct internal tourism business planning
demonstrate tourism planning strategies and responses to climate change.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Contact hours

One 6.5 hour problem based workshop per week

Prerequisites

MGP2501 or MGX2501

Prohibitions

MGW2601, MGW3601