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Unit of Study HOSP2007 - The Casino, Club and Hotel Environment (2025)

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Unit description

Introduces students to the games, the people and the places associated with modern gambling. A problem-based learning approach is then used to teach students how to create a gaming room floor using both consumer behaviour and harm minimisation principles.

Unit content

Topic 1: The gambling environment
Topic 2: The psychology of gamblers
Topic 3: Profitable servicescapes
Topic 4: Gaming room design
Topic 5: Ethical practices in the provision of gambling
Topic 6: Thinking creatively
 

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

Describe an aspect of modern gambling

Evaluate a gaming room floor using servicescape principles

Create a harm minimisation strategy

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