Swinburne University of Technology - Melbourne Australia
Future Students - Courses
Duration
Contact Hours
Campus
Prerequisite
Corequisite
1Semester
36 hours over the teaching period (normally 3 hours per week)
Lilydale
LTT100 Introduction to Tourism
Credit Points: 12.5 Credit Points
Effective 2010, current students refer unit outline. Co-badged with TOU24 Tourist Destination Management This is a prescribed unit of study in the Business Major/s. It may also be undertaken as a unit of study in any other Swinburne degree program, subject to the prerequisite and degree requirements.
• To identify the degree of interdependence in a region's tourism industry • To study the roles and functions of destination tourism organisations • To examine the contribution of technological advancement to tourist destination management • To develop strategies for the sustainability of a destination's tourism industry
This unit will be taught in a variety of modes including face to face, online, distance and blended modes. Delivery of this unit may be through a mixture of lectures, tutorials, laboratories, seminars and online.
Research Essay 30 - 40% Group Task 10 - 20% Examination 45 - 55%
This unit will provide discipline-based knowledge and professional capabilities and experiences contributing to students progress in attaining generic skills such as: • teamwork skills • analysis skills • problem solving skills • communications skills • ability to tackle unfamiliar problems • ability to work independently .
• Tourist Destination Areas: the regionalisation process, growth and development • The Destination Environment: physical, sociocultural, economic • Sustainability and Management Processes, Destination Marketing, Tourism and the Community
Weaver, David and Lawton, Laura, 2010, Tourism Management, 4th edn., John Wiley & Sons, Brisbane.
Page, Stephen, J., 2007, Tourism Management. Managing for Change, 2nd. Edn, Butterworth Heinemann Oxford
