School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Travel, Destination and Visitor Management
  • Unit Code

    TSM2650
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hana HADINEJAD

Description

This unit outlines the need for an integrated approach for planning, development, and marketing of a destination, as well as management of visitors and their experiences at the national, state, regional, and local levels. The main concepts encompass sense of place, authenticity and commodification, destination image formation and management, tourism stakeholders, destination life cycle (DLC), and visitor and site management. Students will also consolidate the core skill of teamwork and apply knowledge into practice by planning and executing a research project on a mutually agreed topic(s) related to Travel, Destination and Visitor Management.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded TSM2550

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Evaluate key concepts, theories and issues in the planning and development of tourism destination management and marketing.
  2. Analyse the nature and the complexity of tourism perspectives and policies to develop innovative travel and tour itineraries using relevant technology.
  3. Assess the branding and positioning of destinations and provide recommendations to improve destination management and marketing.
  4. Collaborate effectively in team settings to produce measurable outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Sense of place
  2. Authenticity and commodification in tourism
  3. Destination life cycle (DLC) and planning systems
  4. Teamwork skills for the tourism industry
  5. Governments, governance, policy, regulation, and public interest
  6. Stakeholders, partnerships, collaboration, and networks in tourism
  7. Destination image formation and management
  8. Visitor and site management
  9. Travel itineraries and tour development using relevant technology

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 210 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Additional Learning Experience Information

Active and applied learning is promoted through the use of guest speakers where students are provided with further industry insights and networking opportunities, and the use of relevant technologies specific to the development of travel and tour itineraries.

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
EssayDiscovering and Analysing Sense of Place 30%
AssignmentCase Study Analysis 40%
PresentationGroup Travel and Tour Project30%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayDiscovering and Analysing Sense of Place 30%
AssignmentCase Study Analysis40%
PresentationGroup Travel and Tour Project30%

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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