Undergraduate - UnitMGW3502 - Tourism policy

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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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 2014
Coordinator(s)	Mr Gary Lacey (Berwick); TBA (South Africa)

Synopsis

This unit provides an introduction to the tourism policy, process, approaches and implications. The unit considers how and why governments develop policies that affect the tourism industry, related sectors, and the community. Through our individual and collective experiences, this unit will develop an understanding of tourism policy that will enable new interpretations of how tourism can be prepared for at national, local and business levels. The main areas covered include the roles of international to local level government and organisations in tourism policy, the inclusion of partners and stakeholders in tourism policy and implementation, and contemporary tourism policy issues.

Outcomes

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

examine the role of tourism policy
explain and evaluate government policy processes
analyse tourism policy consultation and engagement with communities and other stakeholders
examine key contemporary tourism policy issues and government responses to these.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Glen Croy

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 144 hours per semester

Prerequisites

Students must have passed MGW2501 or MGX2501 before undertaking this unit

Prohibitions

MGP3502, MGW1502, MGW2502