307911 (v.1) Planning for Tourism 212

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Area:	Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Credits:	12.5
Contact Hours:	2.0
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Syllabus:	Students will develop practical skills to enable planners to develop tourism land use policies and assess tourism development proposals.
Unit Outcomes:	Upon completion of this unit students will have developed the practical skills to enable preparation of tourism land use policies and assessment of tourism development. Gained knowledge of the rise of tourism to its status as the world's largest industry, tourism planning theories, government tourism policy development, tourism segments and tourism impacts. Developed an understanding of potential tourism developments and structured a tourism development proposal. Gained knowledge of organisational structures of tourism in Western Australia and data collection and analysis.
Text and references listed above are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information.
Unit References:	Craik, J., (1991). Resorting to Tourism: Cultural Policies for Tourism Development in Australia. North Sydney, Allen and Unwin. Godfrey, K. and Clarke, J., (2000). Tourism Development Handbook: A Practical Approach to Planning and Marketing. London, Cassell. Hall, C.M., (2000). Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships. Harlow, Prentice Hall. Hall, C.M., Jenkins, J., and Kearsley, G., eds., (1997). Tourism Planning and Policy in Australia and New Zealand: Cases, Issues and Practice.Sydney, Irwin. Lanfant, M., (1995). Introduction - in Lanfant, M., Allcock, J., and Bruner, E., eds. International Tourism Identity and Change. London, Sage. Theobald, W., ed., (1998). Global Tourism, revised edition. Oxford, Butterworth Heineman.
Unit Texts:	No prescribed texts.
Unit Assessment Breakdown:	Site visit data collection 20%, Site data analysis 20%, Final paper 60%. This is a grade/mark assessment.
Year Location Period Internal Area External Central External 2004 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y