Overview
The purpose of this unit is to develop an overview of the key issues that are likely to affect the global tourism industry in the 21st Century with a specific focus on sustainability. The unit introduces the tourism system and provides a firm basis for understanding how the global tourism system operates on an international and domestic scale. This knowledge will equip you to understand how the tourism system functions from a number of viewpoints including the individual tourist, the destinations that tourists visit and the private and public sector providers of goods and services that support the tourism industry. You will be encouraged to think critically and engage in debates about how these issues will impact on the tourism system, on specific destinations and on individual tourists. This unit will also enhance your ability to participate in team work designed to produce a specific outcome.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
There are no requisites for this unit.
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Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
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Assessment Overview
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This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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- Identify the tourism system and its global operations
- Analyse the components of the tourism system from multiple perspectives
- Identify factors that currently affect the tourism system at local, national and international levels
- Analyse and debate the impact of factors that may affect global tourism system in the future at local, national and international levels
- Develop collaborative skills through team work that analyses destination response to changes in the external business, political and technological environments.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Critical Review - 60% | |||||
| 2 - Group Work - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Critical Review - 60% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Group Work - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Tourism: Principles and Practice
Edition: 6th (2018)
Authors: John Fletcher, Alan Fyall, David Gilbert & Stephen Wanhill
Pearson
United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781292172354
Binding: Other
Additional Textbook Information
An ebook version of the text can be purchased from: https://www.pearson.com.au/9781292172392
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
m.thompson@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
An Introduction to Tourism in the 21st Century and Sustainability Principles
Chapter
Chapter 1
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Who are Tourists?
Understanding the Nature of Tourism Demand and Tourists' Behaviours
Chapter
Chapters 2 and 3
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Accounting for Tourists - Measuring and Modelling Tourism Demand
Chapter
Chapter 4
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Understanding the Nature and Role of Tourism Destinations
Chapter
Chapter 6
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Understanding the Economic, Environmental and Socio-Cultural Impacts of Tourism on Destinations
Chapter
Chapters 7, 8 and 9
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Concepts and Strategies for Sustainable Tourism
Chapter
Chapter 10
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Developing Sustainable and Resilient Destinations
Chapter
Chapters 11 and 12
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Examining the Tourism Sector 1 - Attractions and Accommodation at the Destination
Chapter
Chapters 13 and 14
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Examining the Tourism Sector 2 - Transportation and Accessing Destinations
Chapter
Chapter 17
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Examining the Tourism Sector 3 - The Role of Intermediaries, Public Sector and Policy
Chapter
Chapters 16 and 18
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Marketing for Tourism in the 21st Century - Sector Specific Considerations and Management Implications
Chapter
Chapter 19
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Tourism Beyond the 21st Century - What does the Future Hold for a Sector Responding to Rapid Changes?
Chapter
Chapter 5
Where required, links to additional readings will be available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Critical Review
This unit introduces you to the global tourism system in the 21st Century, enhancing your understanding of the opportunities and challenges that the industry faces, as well as the implications for its management and sustainability. For this assessment task, you are to prepare an annotated bibliography, critically reviewing five academic journal articles that will be made available to you on Moodle. You may select any five from the list of articles provided in the Assessment Task on Moodle. The articles will examine a range of topics relevant to the tourism in the 21st Century, focusing on aspects of sustainability, management, tourism impacts, and the opportunities and challenges associated with innovation and disruption in a rapidly changing global context.
The annotated bibliography should:
- Critically review five (5) journal articles (from a selection provided on Moodle)
- Analyse the aim, methodology, research topic and findings
- Identify the significance of the journal article to the tourism literature and/or tourism industry by assessing the contribution/implications of the research (Eg. what is its contribution to theory or practice?)
Format of the annotated bibliography:
· Cover page with student name, student number, due date
· Total word length of 2000 (excluding references/citing sources)
· Reference to the journal article being reviewed in APA format
Week 5 Thursday (9 Apr 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Online via Moodle
Week 6 Monday (20 Apr 2020)
via TurnItIn (Grademark)
The following criteria will be assessed, with a full allocation of marks available via the marking rubric on Moodle:
· Clear identification of the journal articles being reviewed
· Critical analysis of the aim, methodology, topic and findings of the journal article
· An understanding of the significance of the journal article and its contribution to the tourism literature and/or tourism industry
· Content development - logical flow, clear and concise reviews
· Style and conventions - formal and informal rules inherent in preparing an annotated bibliography
· Syntax and mechanics - sentence construction, grammar, punctuation and spelling, references formatted in APA
· References - current and appropriate, minimum number required, aligns with APA referencing style
- Identify the tourism system and its global operations
- Analyse the components of the tourism system from multiple perspectives
- Identify factors that currently affect the tourism system at local, national and international levels
- Analyse and debate the impact of factors that may affect global tourism system in the future at local, national and international levels
- Communication
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
2 Group Work
The global tourism industry is projecting continued growth, with an increasing number of tourists travelling to both established and emerging tourism destinations. The impact of this growing tourism demand on destinations can be positive and negative, and has brought the need for sustainability to a global audience. While tourism can provide economic benefits to destination economies and communities, it can also have unintended negative impacts on the environment, society and culture of tourism destinations. Hence, it is important to assess the long-term sustainability of the tourism sector and tourism destinations globally.
A growing demand for tourism experiences contributes to increased pressure on already popular tourism destinations and their resources. There are a number of destinations currently experiencing a backlash due to over-tourism, including Paris, Barcelona and Venice. In small groups (2-3), you are required to review the case of one tourism destination in this situation, critically analysing the current problems faced by the destination community and propose strategies that may overcome these issues based on your knowledge of the tourism sector, and application of tourism theory and sustainability principles. The case study will be assigned by the Unit Coordinator and made available on the Moodle site.
For distance students, an online Moodle forum will be used as a platform to enhance group formations. If required, there will be a capacity to complete this assessment individually, subject to prior approval of the Unit Co-ordinator.
The group report should address the following:
- A short introduction to the case study destination
- A succinct history of the destination's tourism industry, examining the factors that have contributed to its current tourism development
- Identify and analyse the contemporary impacts of tourism on the destination, considering economic, environmental and socio-cultural aspects
- Critique strategies implemented and/or propose strategies that may be used to ameliorate the current situation, incorporating sustainability principles and practice
Format of the group report:
· Report title, including student names, student numbers, due date
· Report should be 2000 words in length (excluding references)
· The report can include pictures where appropriate, to support your argument
· References to sources used in the report should be listed at the end in APA format (min. 8 academic references, at least 2 references from the grey literature)
Week 12 Monday (1 June 2020) 11:45 pm AEST
Sumit via Moodle
Exam Week Monday (15 June 2020)
As there is no exam for this unit, the formal results for this assessment will be available on Certification of Grades.
The following criteria will be assessed, with a full allocation of marks available via the marking rubric on Moodle:
· Identification and description of the destination (case) being reviewed
· Demonstrates an understanding of the destination's development to date (concise overview)
· Critical examination and analysis of the impacts of tourism on the destination currently
· Analysis of strategies that have been used/could be used to enhance sustainability of the destination
· Content development - logical flow, clarity and consistency of business throughout report
· Style and conventions - formal and informal rules inherent in expectations for writing a report
· Syntax and mechanics - sentence construction, grammar, punctuation and spelling, references formatted in APA (min. 8 academic references, at least 2 references from the grey literature)
· Peer review - short statement of 300 words critically reflecting on the contribution of team members (not included in word count)
- Identify the tourism system and its global operations
- Analyse the components of the tourism system from multiple perspectives
- Analyse and debate the impact of factors that may affect global tourism system in the future at local, national and international levels
- Develop collaborative skills through team work that analyses destination response to changes in the external business, political and technological environments.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
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Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
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