The Sharing Economy and Disruptive Innovations

• • Week 1: Understanding the impacts of technology
  • Week 2: Big data and the ethics of using it
  • Week 3: Understanding your customer via user-generated content Part 1
  • Week 4: Understanding your customer via user-generated content Part 2
  • Week 5: Tracking tourists mobility Part 1
  • Week 6: Tracking tourists mobility Part 2
  • Week 7: COVID and Technology
  • Week 8: The rise of the Gig Economy and Sharing Economy
  • Week 9: Positive aspects of the Sharing Economy
  • Week 10: Problems with the Sharing Economy
  • Week 11: The Future of technology in tourism
  • Week 12: Recap

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

Elective

• TAS-SCM-GDI-2022

Additional requirements

No additional requirements

Digital disruptions such as the sharing economy have caused major disruptions for the tourism industry – both positive and negative. Platforms such as Airbnb and Uber, plus Airtasker, UberEats and HomeAway, have transformed the way tourists travel, the way that purchases are made, the way in which employees are hired, the way in which the industry is regulated and ultimately the way in which tourism as an industry is regarded by communities. Further disruptions such as big data have challenged norms of research, the ethics of collecting data and have ultimately challenged our understanding of how the tourism industry works. In this subject, you will tackle these issues by exploring the reasons for the rise of disruptive innovations such as the sharing economy. You will assess positive and negative impacts, from a diverse range of perspectives including those of consumers, tourism operators, the tourism industry and policy makers.

• Social Media Assessment (30%)
• Podcast on the ethics of tracking tourists’ movement (25%)
• A critical review of the worth of the Sharing Economy in Tasmania (45%)

Current study term: 20 Feb 22 to 29 May 22

Next study term: 10 Jul 22 to 16 Oct 22