Undergraduate - UnitMGP3542 - Sustainable tourism destinations

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6 points, SCA Band 3, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Business and Economics
Organisational Unit	Department of Management
Offered	Not offered in 2013
Coordinator(s)	Dr Glen Croy

Synopsis

This unit is identified and presented as the capstone unit for the tourism major in the Bachelor of Business and as such draws together the learning and experiences gained from previous tourism units, other units and general life experiences. It includes consideration of key issues around the general theme of sustainable destinations. It provides an opportunity to apply sustainability principles and ethics to managing tourism destination development and its impacts.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

distinguish a destination's tourism attractions
explain destination tourism sustainability issues
outline tourism ethics and its relevance to sustainability
evaluate sustainability, destination development and impacts.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Glen Croy

Contact hours

One 6.5 hour problem based workshop per week
And one full-day fieldtrip

Prerequisites

MGP2501 or MGX2501

Co-requisites

NIL

Prohibitions

MGW3541, MGW3542