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307911 (v.1) Planning for Tourism 212
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. |
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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. |
Texts and references listed below are for your information only and current as of September 30, 2003. Some units taught offshore are modified at selected locations. Please check with the unit coordinator for up-to-date information and approved offshore variations to unit information before finalising study and textbook purchases. |
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. |
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Unit Assessment Breakdown: | Site visit data collection 20%, Site data analysis 20%, Final paper 60%. This is a grade/mark assessment. |
Field of Education: |  40100 Architecture and Urban Environment (Narrow Grouping) | HECS Band (if applicable): | 2   |
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Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information: |  Not Online   | Result Type: |  Grade/Mark |
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Availability
Year | Location | Period | Internal | Area External | Central External | 2004 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y | | |
Area External | refers to external course/units run by the School or Department, offered online or through Web CT, or offered by research. |
Central External | refers to external course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area |
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