BX2092 - Tourist and Leisure Behaviour Management
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
This subject introduces students to a series of concepts and research approaches in the tourist and customer behaviour field. It considers the characteristics of tourists, tourist motivation, destination image and choice. It follows an organising model of the literature so that the consequences of on-site behaviour and choice are explored. These consequences include satisfaction, learning, cultural contact and community impacts.
Learning Outcomes
- to examine the application of research findings and concepts to solving tourist and customer behaviour related management problems;
- to familiarise students with the array of methods used to explore tourist and customer behaviour topics;
- to introduce students to key topics in this area including work from the tourist literature and other relevant social science fields.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | TO2006 AND TO5006 AND TO6006 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 26-Aug-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
| Lecturer: | Mrs Jenny Panchal. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (60%); other exams (25%); presentations (15%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 26-Aug-2010 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Mr Christian Ware. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (20% - 30%); assignments (20% - 30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 22-Jul-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (20% - 30%); assignments (20% - 30%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 53 | |
| Census Date 18-Nov-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (20% - 30%); assignments (20% - 30%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 12-Aug-2010 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (40% - 50%); other exams (20% - 30%); assignments (20% - 30%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.