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Sustainable Tourism Development
PostgraduateTAS-HGA5012025
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- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Sustainable Tourism Development
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Critically analyse impact of breadth of indicators and evaluation system that have been designed for the tourism and cultural heritage industries.
- Critically assess the integration of sustainable development and sustainable tourism into local, national and international government policy.
- Critically evaluate the application and challenges of sustainable development and sustainable tourism to different jurisdictions and businesses.
- Effectively communicate sustainable tourism principles to a range of tourism and cultural heritage stakeholders.
- Preparation for the Field Trip
- Pre-Field Trip learning modules: An introduction to sustainable tourism
- The impact of COVID-19 on sustainable tourism
- Tourism in Tasmania, the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area and the Cradle Valley region
- Field Trip Learning material - Day 1, 2, 3, 4
- Post-Field Trip Learning material - Managing tourism for sustainbility
- The future of sustainable tourism
- Industry schemes and codes of conduct
- Tourism in Tasmania
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 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.
- Assignment (30%)
- Group Presentation (10%)
- Group Report (60%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-SCM-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma of Strategic Communication
Additional requirements
- Attendance requirements - Students are required to attend a face-to-face session at Cradle Mountain National Park. The session is in an intensive block mode, over 4 days. Attendance is compulsory.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma of Strategic Communication
PostgraduateTAS-SCM-GDI