Tourism and International Relations - Module 4

The short content of the course:

- Economics of tourism;
- Tourism and gross domestic product;
- Tourism and related industries;
- Tourism and service industries;
- Tourism as an ‘economic growth factor';
- Tourism and ‘world stage';
- The contribution of national tourism to a country's foreign exchange reserve;
- National tourism and international credit rating;
- Tourism and regional co-operation;
- National tourism and strategy implementation;
- Planning international tourism strategy;
- Implementing international tourism strategy;
- Contemporary tourism issues;
- Worker participation and problem solving within tourism;
- International tourism and worker professionality;
- Strategic decision making;
- Carry out tourism management functions to a high professional level;
- Tourism and human resource management;
- Application of balanced score card tourism;
- International tourism;
- International gust relations;
- Tourism and industrial survivor kit;
- Tourism and counter-terrorism;
- International conventions and protocol;
- Risk management: an introduction;
- Risk management in tourism
- Risk management, tourism and disaster preparedness
- Risk management, disaster recovery and organisational continuity

- Financial risk management;
- Financial Risk: A Definition
- Financial Risk Exposure
- Organisational areas exposed to financial risk
- Operational financial risk in governmental and business organisations
- Globalization and financial risk: Contributory factors

- Opportunities and strength analysis in tourism;
- Strength and weakness analysis in tourism organisation;
- Using information from SWOT analysis to enhance tourism strategy

The objectives of the course:

- Explain the economic values that are associated with tourism;
- Calculate the likely contribution of tourism to a country's overall gross domestic product;
- Position tourism as an ‘economic growth factor';
- Positively link increasing effectiveness of national tourism with improvement in associated industries;
- Illustrate, drawing on available statistics, the interrelationship between tourism and the service sector;
- Statistically verify the relationship between regional and global events and national tourism;
- Demonstrate the relationship between a country's position on the world stage and national tourism activities;
- Plan and implement tourism strategies confidently within both domestic and international contexts;
- Have a sound understanding and a critical awareness of contemporary tourism issues;
- Deal with complex issues both systematically and creatively and make sound judgements;
- Demonstrate self direction and originality in solving problems;
- Act autonomously and professionally in planning and implementing strategies;
- Fully develop the qualities and transferable skills, including initiative, decision-making and independent learning ability, necessary for today's global tourism industry;
- Carry out tourism management functions to a high professional level;
- Position tourism management and human resource management as symbolically related;
- Apply balance score card to tourism and tourism management;
- Exhibit a heightened understanding of International tourism and its positive and negative implications for the prevailing culture and culture integration;
- Provide substantive evidence that might support the nation that the industrial and service sector are highly depending on tourism;
- Demonstrate a high level of understanding of the negative impact that terrorism has on international tourism;
- Illustrate their understanding of the relationship between a country's participation in and contribution to international conventions and protocol and increased tourism activities;
- Explain and calculate the contribution that national tourism makes to a country's foreign exchange reserve;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the extent to which tourism contributes to a country's credit rating;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the importance of regional co-operation in boosting national tourism;
- Exhibit a heightened understanding of risk management in tourism;
- Conduct risk assessment in an aspects of tourism;
- Use tangible evidence to indicate that they can position an organisation or its subsystem to manage risk and disaster preparedness within the tourism sector;
- Recall fundamental issues associated with risk management, disaster recovery and organisational continuity;
- Provide a working definition of financial risk and financial risk management;
- Name, with brief expiation, of at least four different areas to which financial risk might be associated;
- Demonstrate their understanding of the financial risk that is associated with the operation of governmental and business organisations;
- Discuss, illustrating a heightened understanding of the extent to which globalization is a major contributory factor to the ineffectiveness of current financial risk management strategy.
- An understanding tourism and contemporary tourism issues from a global community perspective.
- Communication in international tourism: practical and conceptual and contextual issues.
- Local national regional and international tourism: distinction and issues to be addressed.
- The rule of government in police formulation and dissimilation.
- Micro and macro economics and global tourism.
- Tourism and international equilibrium.
- Psychology of destination marketing.
- Global Vs community-oriented tourism marketing.
- Psychological travel profiles.
- Host-gust relation and cultural issues.
- Social and cultural issues associated with global tourism.
- Tourism destination management.
- ‘Progressive' developing countries and international tourism.
- Industry wide problems and solutions: national and global challenge.
- Exhibit the ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing, to appreciate the nature of controversy and intellectual conflict, and how to balance the needs and interests of opposing points of view.
- Demonstrate and understanding the various components of the tourism system on a local, state, regional, national, and international level.
- To identify the role of government in establishing regulations and policies to protect, conserve, and manage the environmental resources.
- To understand how basic economic principles relate to global community-oriented tourism.
- Identify and illustrate the role of tourism in achieving a positive balance of trade between countries.
- Demonstrate and understanding of the psychological implications of tourism destination marketing practices.
- Draw on basic marketing principles relating to global community-oriented tourism.
- Understand the psychology of travel motivations and tourist typologies.
- Understand the relationship between hosts and guests, and the role of the tourist as an agent for cultural change.
- Outline how basic social-cultural principles relate to global community-oriented tourism.
- Identify authenticity and acculturation issues relative to tourism destination management.
- Demonstrate heightened awareness of the impact of the progressively developing countries on international tourism, and the ways on which the resultant resources can be harnessed.
- Illustrate an awareness of the current challenges and develop skills for identifying industry problems and proposing solutions.
- Discuss the importance of providing safety, speed, and efficient transportation.
- Produce writing documentation, which identifies the importance of crisis marketing management to tourism destinations.
- Identify opportunities and threats within international tourism.
- Conduct a strengths and weakness analysis within national and international tourism sectors.
- Apply principles of strategic tourism planning with a community based project.
- Develop individual skills in research methodology, writing, and communication.
- Demonstrate the ability to formulate and implement effective long term tourism strategy