The learning strategy for the module will require students to commit 300 learning hours (including assessment). There will be 72 hours of class support and 228 hours of independent and self-directed study. Lectures will provide students with a broad theoretical overview and the conceptual frameworks needed to study the relationship between tourist destinations and culture, and to understand the influence of culture upon global tourism and leisure movements. Workshops and tutorial support activities 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 interpretation exercises in preparation for the assessment.

Independent study will require students to read and consider preparatory questions which will form the basis of workshop and tutorial 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.

Students will engage with:

- a mix of lectures/ tutorials/ large and small group activities, plus self directed learning. Learning support material will be provided for independent /self directed learning.
- participation in group activities, involving peer assessment
- role-plays and directed reading
- undertake their own (contemporary) research
- guest speakers
- technology supported activities (e.g. blogs and forums)
- debates
- field work and visits

The Library
Internet
Market Reports

Cooper C et al (2005). Tourism: Principles and Practice. Harlow: Pearson Education Limited

Howie F (2003). Managing the Tourist Destination. Continuum

Meethan, K (2001) Tourism in Global Society: Place, Culture, Consumption, Basingstoke: Palgrave

Page S, J (2007). Tourism Management: Managing for Change. Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann

Reisinger, Y (2009) International Tourism: Cultures and Behaviour, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann

Richards, G (2006) Cultural Tourism: Local and Global Perspectives, London: Routledge

Sigala, M & Leslie, D (2005) International Cultural Tourism: Management, Implications and Cases, Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann

Smith, M (2003) Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies, London: Routledge

The individual case-study assignment 50% (2000 words) assesses Learning Outcomes 1, 2 & 3

The individual take-home test (questions from which students are required to answer one question specifically and are able to select a further question from a number of options) assignment 50% (2000 words) assesses Learning outcomes 4 & 5

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 as well as the embodiment of culture in contemporary international tourism and leisure movements. Examining 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. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach the module will require students to examine the relationship between tourism, leisure and culture in a global context. The module seeks to understand the role played by culture upon representations of people, populations and pasts in the tourism/leisure market place. An appreciation of the contribution of culture as a tool and a catalyst for place regeneration in the development and management of tourism/leisure will be considered. In addition, the importance of tourism planning, development and management to optimise tourism impacts is considered. The module will further require students to adopt a critical stance to scrutinise the ways in which culture is contextualised across the world in tourism receiving and generating countries. The overall impetus of the module is to develop an understanding of the tourism destination from the perspective of planning, management and development and to locate the concept of 'culture' to the study of people, populations, pasts and places in the business of tourism and leisure

1. ANALYSE THE GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF TOURIST DESTINATIONS. Analysis, Knowlege & Understanding.
2. APPLY THE SPECIFIC SOCIAL, ENVIRONMENTAL AND ECONOMIC IMPACTS OF TOURISM IN DIFFERENT DESTINATION CONTEXTS. Analysis, Application.
3. APPRAISE THE CONTRIBUTION OF CULTURE IN THE REGENERATION OF PLACES IN DIFFERENT DESTINATION CONTEXTS. Analysis, Problem Solving.
4. APPLY CULTIRALLY SPECIFIC THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORKS TO STUDY THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE, LEISURE AND TOURISM. Analysis, Application.
5. APPRAISE THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE UPON TOURISM AND LEISURE MOVEMENTS IN BOTH A NATIONAL (UK) AND INTERNATIONAL (GLOBAL) CONTEXT. Knowledge & Understanding, Learning