TO5104 - Tourist Management Strategies
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 3 |
| Administered by: | School of Business |
Tourists form the core of the demand sector of tourism systems. Managing tourist expectations, experiences, behaviours and impacts is a key element of sustainable tourism operations and destination competitiveness. This subject will combine perspectives from anthropology, sociology, social psychology, consumer behaviour and human geography to create tools for analysing and understanding tourists and their role in tourism systems. This subject will particularly concentrate on critically evaluating strategies for dealing with both positive and negative tourist impacts on the physical and socio-cultural dimensions of destinations.
Learning Outcomes
- creates awareness of the multiple management strategies to shape tourist behaviour;
- develops abilities to apply the understanding of tourist behaviour influences and available management strategies to a range of tourist settings;
- build an understanding of the forces affecting tourist behaviour.
Graduate Qualities
- The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
- The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
- The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
- The ability to lead, manage and contribute effectively to teams.
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| Townsville, Block, Study Period 9 | |
| Census Date 10-Oct-2013 | |
| Face to face teaching 11-Oct-2013 to 27-Oct-2013 (Fri 11/10 6pm-9pm, Sat 12/10 & Sun 13/10 9am-5pm AND Fri 25/10 6pm-9pm, Sat 26/10 & Sun 27/10 9am-5pm) | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
| Lecturers: | Professor Bruce Prideaux, Dr Alastair Birtles. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (25%); assignments (25%). |
| Special Assessment Requirements: | Students must obtain a final mark of at least 50% to pass the subject, and must obtain at least an average of 50% over all invigilated components to pass the subject. |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 51 | |
| Census Date 21-Mar-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (25%); assignments (25%). |
| JCU Brisbane, Internal, Study Period 22 | |
| Census Date 15-Aug-2013 | |
| Coordinator: | Professor Philip Pearce |
| Lecturer: | Dr Niki Macionis. |
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| Assessment: | end of semester exam (50%); presentations (25%); assignments (25%). |
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.