TO5002 - Introduction to Tourism and the Environment
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2007 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | Discipline of Tourism |
Available to Graduate Diploma of Tourism student and Master of Tourism students.
This subject examines the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the physical, economic and socio-cultural environment. It includes an extensive introduction to key ecological theories and to a wide range of Australian environments and the major biophysical processes which structure them. Current models of tourism development and its impacts are reviewed and aspects of the legislative framework governing the interaction between tourism and the environment are examined. Although the course has an Australian and Asia-Pacific emphasis, it takes an international perspective with examples from Africa, North America and Europe also reviewed. An additional project is also required.
| Prerequisites: | Enrolment in GDipTourism or MTourism |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | TG2201 and TO2000 and TO6002 |
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| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40%); presentations (10%); essays (25%); (25%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1 | |
| Census Date 30-Mar-2007 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Heather Zeppel. |
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| Assessment: | quizzes or tests (20%); presentations (15%); practicals (20%); essays (20%); project report (25%). |
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