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APG5390 - Contemporary tourism and development in emerging economies

12 points, SCA Band 3, 0.250 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

National Centre For Australian Studies

Coordinator(s)

Dr Jeff Jarvis

Offered

Caulfield

Summer semester A 2016 (Evening)

Notes

This unit is an international study programinternational study program (http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/study-overseas/) that requires an application to be enrolled and may incur additional cost.
The unit may be offered as part of the Summer Arts ProgramSummer Arts Program (http://www.monash.edu/students/courses/arts/summer-program.html).

Synopsis

This contemporary unit is designed to focus on key issues arising in the global tourism industry such as the rapid growth of the industry in emerging economies, poverty alleviation and development through tourism and the growth of "new tourism" and independent travel. The unit is presented via a number of key industry seminars and a proposed field work study tour to an emerging tourism region such as Fiji (South Pacific), Vietnam (S.E Asia) or Estonia (Eastern Europe). (The selected study tour destination will be nominated at the start of semester and may vary from year to year)

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will have gained:

an understanding of key problems and issues in the current and future development of the global tourism industry;
a developed capacity to undertake original research on an area of their particular interest;
enhanced written and oral communication skills suitable for progress in the tourism profession;
an understanding of key issues facing the future development of the industry in emerging economies;
an understanding of the challenges facing tourism development in emerging tourism economies/regions.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.