Sustainable Tourism Development

• • Complete 3 Pre-Trip Mylo Modules
  • Read Field Trip Information
  • Field Trip to Cradle Coast and Cradle Mountain

In order to enrol in this subject, you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:

Elective

• TAS-SCM-GDI-2022

Additional requirements

• Attendance requirements - Students are required to attend a face-to-face session from the Cradle Coast and at Cradle Mountain National Park campus in week 3. The session is in an intensive block mode, over 4 days. Attendance is compulsory.

This subject will explore the origins, elements and tensions inherent in sustainable tourism. You will explore the relevance of sustainable development to tourism, its application and the tensions that arise when theory is applied to practice. The subject will also critically review and asses international, national and statewide approaches to the concept, its use within government policy and efforts to develop indicators, benchmarks and assessment tools for sustainable tourism. Taught partially within a World Heritage Area, this subject give students a real life understanding of the managerial take up of the concept, along with commercial and tourists’ responses to the concept.

The subject is taught face to face from the Cradle Coast and at Cradle Mountain National Park campus in week 3 (March 9-12th 2021), in an intensive block mode, over 4 days. Attendance is compulsory. On the 2nd and 3rd day of the teaching block, you will take a field trip to Cradle Mountain National Park (staying overnight), returning to class on the 4th and final day. Following the intensive block teaching, you will complete your assignments online.

• Critical comparison of the integration of sustainable tourism theory into three tourism management plans (30%)
• Group Presentation to external stakeholders (10%)
• Group Report (60%)