School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Sustainable Tourism Development
  • Unit Code

    TSM3610
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joanna Maree PEARCE

Description

This unit examines the evolution, elements and tensions inherent in the global phenomenon of sustainable tourism. It focuses on the history, development and growth of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, and their relationship to mass tourism and the concept of the triple bottom line. The concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and their application to the planning and management of tourism, including sustainable development goals, business models, cultural and Indigenous perspectives, impacts and the need for adaptation into the future are also examined. A key component of this unit will be collaborating effectively and evaluating teamwork in a tourism management context.

Prerequisite Rule

Students need to have passed either TSM2111 Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism OR HOS2110 Food and Beverage Management before enrolling into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

This unit replaces TSM3107 Ecotourism.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the evolution of sustainable tourism and key principles relating to the concept of the triple bottom line.
  2. Identify and examine the outcomes and impacts of tourism developments upon destinations, local communities, the environment and the economy.
  3. Review, analyse and recommend appropriate visitor and management strategies to mitigate impacts on a destination.
  4. Identify and critique the emerging trends and issues that may impact on the future of managing sustainable tourism, and the tourism industry in general.
  5. Collaborate effectively in team settings to produce measurable outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Sustainable tourism: definition, evolution and trends.
  2. Sustainable development goals, the role of ethics and the environmental movement.
  3. Economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of tourism and their management.
  4. Cultural and Indigenous perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  5. Operationalisation and forms of sustainable tourism.
  6. Future issues and prospects for sustainable tourism.
  7. Evaluating teamwork in tourism management.

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 213 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

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
ReportRecommendations report30%
AssignmentTeamwork reflections20%
ProjectGroup project30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportRecommendations report30%
AssignmentTeamwork reflections20%
ProjectGroup project30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment 20%

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.

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. 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, 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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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Sustainable Tourism Development
  • Unit Code

    TSM3610
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Joanna Maree PEARCE

Description

This unit examines the evolution, elements and tensions inherent in the global phenomenon of sustainable tourism. It focuses on the history, development and growth of ecotourism and sustainable tourism, and their relationship to mass tourism and the concept of the triple bottom line. The concepts of 'sustainability' and 'sustainable development' and their application to the planning and management of tourism, including sustainable development goals, business models, cultural and Indigenous perspectives, impacts and the need for adaptation into the future are also examined. A key component of this unit will be collaborating effectively and evaluating teamwork in a tourism management context.

Prerequisite Rule

Students need to have passed either TSM2111 Introduction to Hospitality and Tourism OR HOS2110 Food and Beverage Management before enrolling into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

This unit replaces TSM3107 Ecotourism.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the evolution of sustainable tourism and key principles relating to the concept of the triple bottom line.
  2. Identify and examine the outcomes and impacts of tourism developments upon destinations, local communities, the environment and the economy.
  3. Review, analyse and recommend appropriate visitor and management strategies to mitigate impacts on a destination.
  4. Identify and critique the emerging trends and issues that may impact on the future of managing sustainable tourism, and the tourism industry in general.
  5. Collaborate effectively in team settings to produce measurable outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Sustainable tourism: definition, evolution and trends.
  2. Sustainable development goals, the role of ethics and the environmental movement.
  3. Economic, social, cultural and environmental impacts of tourism and their management.
  4. Cultural and Indigenous perspectives, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.
  5. Operationalisation and forms of sustainable tourism.
  6. Future issues and prospects for sustainable tourism.
  7. Evaluating teamwork in tourism management.

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 213 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

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
ReportRecommendations report30%
AssignmentTeamwork reflections20%
ProjectGroup project30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportRecommendations report30%
AssignmentTeamwork reflections20%
ProjectGroup project30%
AssignmentOnline Assessment 20%

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.

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. 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, 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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