The learning strategies will require students to commit 150 learning hours, of which 36 hours will consist of contact time. Lectures (12 hours) will provide students with a broad theoretical overview and the conceptual frameworks needed to appraise the development of tourist destinations and how to effectively manage the impacts on different communities, their environments and economies. Tutorial support activities and workshops (24 hours) will provide students with the opportunity to acquire and develop a range of critical thinking and analytical techniques to apply the underpinning theories to cases and scenarios, and to complete data analysis and interpretation exercises in preparation for the assessment.

A further 114 hours of independent study will require students to read and think about the case study preparatory questions which will form the basis of the case discussions. Students are also required to organise and review their lecture notes and undertake preparatory reading and research on assigned material in order to participate in class discussions individually and as part of a group.

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Cooper C et al (2005). Tourism: Principles and Practices. Longman
Howie F (2003). Managing the Tourist Destination. Continuum
Page S, J (2007). Tourism Management: Managing for Change. Butterworth Heinemann

Details :- The individual case-study assignment 100% (2500 words) assesses all Learning Outcomes.

The purpose of this module is to provide students with an understanding of the nature of tourism destinations and their planning, management and development. It will explore the underlying factors leading to the development and promotion of places (urban, coastal and rural) as tourist destinations and also examine the exploitation of different destination environments as a tourism resource. The module will require students to show how the specific nature of the tourism environment supports a form of tourism that differs from other forms in terms of supply and demand factors. In addition, the importance of tourism planning, development and management to optimise tourism impacts and the role of tourism as a catalyst for regeneration are considered.

Topics covered in the module will be drawn from: definition and typology of destinations; models of destination concept and classification ( Gunn, Mathieson & Wall, Jansen-Verbeke, Fainstein & Judd); destination components and resources; destination zones (urbanisation, historic cities, resort cities, purpose-built, coastal and rural areas, etc); supply-side characteristics; demand-side characteristics; tourist typologies; motivation and aspects of behaviour; criteria for tourism development; destination area life cycle; costs and benefits; tourism strategy features; economic impacts (employment, investment, spending, confidence, seasonality, over-dependence, multiplier, etc); socio-cultural impacts (guest-host relationship, Doxey's Irridex, carrying capacity, etc.), natural and built environment impacts; public/private sector role; policy developments and guidelines; use of tourism in regeneration; sources of funding