School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Tourism, Hospitality and Creative Industries
  • Unit Code

    HOS6103
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Sean KIM

Description

This unit aims to provide a holistic overview of intersections, linkages, and relationships between tourism, hospitality, and the creative industries. Students are given the opportunity to explore interdisciplinary and international contexts and examples of these relationships by examining theoretical and practical aspects, and their application. It covers a variety of creative industries including performing and visual arts, music, TV, film, animation, art exhibitions and fashion shows. Together these contribute to the creative identity of places and the development of new tourism and hospitality products such as arts tourism, film tourism, and contents tourism. As part of this unit, students will be invited to performances and/or events offered by WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts) to acquire authentic first-hand experiences of creative industries. Also, students will be given the opportunity to meet and talk to the crew back-stage.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Research the relationships and intersections between tourism, hospitality, and the creative industries.
  2. Analyse the creative industries and its relationship with tourism and hospitality management.
  3. Explain the linkages between policy, planning, development, and management aspects of the creative industries in connection with tourism and hospitality.
  4. Apply research-informed assessment to determine the likely future direction of the creative industries.
  5. Evaluate a range of contemporary and future issues in the creative industries.

Unit Content

  1. What is creativity’?.
  2. Creativity in the hospitality and tourism industries.
  3. The role of storytelling in tourism, hospitality, and creative industries.
  4. Mapping the creative industries in relation to tourism and hospitality.
  5. Historical development of creative industries-based tourism attractions and hospitality products.
  6. The visual and virtual culture of tourism: Tourism on the large and small screen.
  7. Creative production and consumption: Performing art and public art.
  8. Site visit to WAAPA (Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts).

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

As this is a unit with an unique opportunity to attend a performance and/or event offered by WAAPA students, the unit is available as on-campus only.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentCase study analysis30%
PresentationGroup research presentation30%
ReportCritical research report40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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