TOURISM II
Student Comment (M. Soares, Angola):
"This has
given me insights into world wide tourism, and it helps me to understand
how we can develop our tourism without too much damage"
Duration:
100 hours
COURSE STRUCTURE
There are ten lessons in this
module as follows:
1. Sectors of the Tourism Industry
-Scope of the travel product (natural & cultural, events & sites)
2.
Types of Tourism -Regional, Rural, Urban.
3.
Accommodation Types: Resorts and Hotels, Camping, Back packers, Cruise etc
4.
Cultural Tourism -Museums, Art galleries, Theatre, Indigenous tourism,
Historic parks, Cultural vs Heritage tourism
5. Events
& Festivals -Concerts, Exhibitions, Performances, Seminars, etc
6.
Environmental Tourism -Zoos, National Parks, Wilderness Areas, nature
based tourism, wildlife tourism and ecotourism etc
7.
Health & Adventure Tourism -Health resorts, Bicycle & Walking Tours, Soft
vs Hard Adventure Tourism
8. More Special Interest
Tourism -Food & Wine, Tourism for demographic groups, Sex tourism
9.
Visitor Management & Contingency Planning -Risk management (safety,
financial, etc), insurance, environmental impacts, etc
10.
Packaging a Tour - Planning the Itinerary; costing; delivery; review etc
WHAT
YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
The course is more than theory, but
it offers you choices in what practical tasks you undertake and how you
undertake them, for example: you might do some or all of the following:
-Visit
travel agencies or information centres
-Search the internet
-Write
to a government travel authority/department
-Visit a local or regional
tourist centre
-Study travel pages in a newspaper for both articles and
advertisements
-Visit a library, bookshop or news stand and look at
travel magazines
-Conduct interviews or surveys
-Attend events
To
differentiate between different types of tourism on a variety of bases,
including:
demographics, geography, economics, and culture.
To
compare a variety of different accommodation services provided in the
tourism industry.
To describe the operation of heritage and cultural
tourism, including: historical, architectural, indigenous, and artistic
attractions.
Evaluate the tourism potential of events and festivals.
To
describe the management of passive natural tourist attractions, including
wilderness areas, beaches, rivers, wildlife etc.
To describe the
operation of different types of tourism facilities that have a significant
focus on health and fitness, including Health Resorts, Walking Tours and
Cycling.
To describe a variety of other types of special interest
tourism, including food tourism, senior tourism and sex tourism.
To
plan and manage the number of visitors to different types of tourism
facilities and develop appropriate contingency plans.
To plan a package
holiday incorporating a variety of accommodation and attraction options.
