Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Gold Coast | ||
| Online |
Unit description
Provides insight into global issues which challenge hotel and tourism development in the 21st century. Adopts a student-focused strategy aimed at students developing an understanding of the contemporary trends by focusing on areas/issues of tourism supply and demand.
Unit content
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine current global issues that may influence tourism and hotel development | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 2 | demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the media can influence tourism development | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 3 | evaluate and apply risk management processes | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 4 | critically evaluate developments in the international transport sector | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 5 | analyse the emergence and development of visitor markets and experiences | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | Communication and social skills | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- examine current global issues that may influence tourism and hotel development
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which the media can influence
tourism development
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- evaluate and apply risk management processes
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- critically evaluate developments in the international transport sector
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- analyse the emergence and development of visitor markets and experiences
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Tutorial on-site 2 hours (12 weeks) |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Presentation Script | 15% |
| Presentation | 30% |
| Report | 55% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture online 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Presentation Script | 15% |
| Presentation | 30% |
| Report | 55% |
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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