MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS

Business & Economics Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996


GBU3505

Tourism management processes

Mr Ian Kelly

6 points + Two 1-hour lectures and one 1-hour tutorial per week + Distance and on campus + Gippsland + Prerequisite: GBU1501

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; the natural environment economic sustainability, marketing planning, tourism and the community

Assessment Essay (2000 words): 50% + Examination (3 hours): 50%

Prescribed texts

Middleton V T C Marketing in travel and tourism Heinemann, 1988


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