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Unit description
Examines the ways digital transformations are reshaping the total tourism experience and how tourism operations are increasingly facilitated through digital technologies. Provides students with the conceptual understanding of the relationship between digital technologies, tourism and broader society, as well as helping them to develop pertinent skills in designing a digital solution to a tourism problem and in analysing impacts of the solution on tourism experience and management.
Unit content
Topic 1: Tourism and digital culture
Topic 2: Social media and digital marketing
Topic 3: Digital disruption
Topic 4: Smart tourism destinations
Topic 5: Digital platforms and the tourism experience
Topic 6: Digital solutions
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 | |
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1 | Explain the role of digital platforms in contemporary tourism | Knowledge of a discipline | ||||||
2 | Analyse the impacts of digital platforms on tourism experience and management | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
3 | Creatively design a digital solution to a tourism problem | Creativity | Knowledge of a discipline |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Explain the role of digital platforms in contemporary tourism
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- Analyse the impacts of digital platforms on tourism experience and management
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- Creatively design a digital solution to a tourism problem
- GA2: Creativity
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
Teaching and assessment
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