Availabilities:
2024 unit offering information will be available in November 2023
Unit description
Introduces students to special interest tourism as a unique form within the more traditional forms of tourism and leisure. Students critically examine the social, commercial and regulatory drivers and their impacts on key stakeholders as both drivers and inhibitors of special interest tourism.
Unit content
- Introduction to unit: Defining special interest and niche tourism
- The emergence of special interest tourism: changing patterns of tourist consumption
- The gourmet traveller: Food and wine tourism
- Cure on tour: Health, wellness and medical tourism
- The attraction of revulsion: Dark tourism
- A journey of self-discovery: Genealogy tourism
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate knowledge of the elements of special interest tourism as a subset of the larger tourism industry. |
| 2 | critically analyse a special interest tourism activity and its impacts on key stakeholders |
| 3 | demonstrate a capability to design and plan a special interest tourism activity that meets the competing needs of key stakeholders |
| 4 | demonstrate the knowledge and skills to reflect upon the challenges confronting the special interest tourism sector and its impact on its stakeholders and how you as an industry professional respond to that. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of the elements of special interest tourism as a subset of the larger tourism industry.
- critically analyse a special interest tourism activity and its impacts on key stakeholders
- demonstrate a capability to design and plan a special interest tourism activity that meets the competing needs of key stakeholders
- demonstrate the knowledge and skills to reflect upon the challenges confronting the special interest tourism sector and its impact on its stakeholders and how you as an industry professional respond to that.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
For information regarding Student Contribution Amounts please visit the Student Contribution Amounts.
Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
Please check the international course and fee list to determine the relevant fees.