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Unit of Study HOTL2001 - Special Interest Tourism (2025)

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Unit description

Introduces students to special interest tourism as a unique form within the more traditional forms of tourism and leisure. Students critically examine the social, commercial and regulatory drivers and their impacts on key stakeholders as both drivers and inhibitors of special interest tourism.

Unit content

  1. Introduction to unit: Defining special interest and niche tourism
  2. The emergence of special interest tourism: changing patterns of tourist consumption
  3. The gourmet traveller: Food and wine tourism
  4. Cure on tour: Health, wellness and medical tourism
  5. The attraction of revulsion: Dark tourism
  6. A journey of self-discovery: Genealogy tourism

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Location Domestic International
Brisbane - The Hotel School
Summer Term
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Melbourne - The Hotel School
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Sydney - The Hotel School
Summer Term
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On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate knowledge of the elements of special interest tourism as a subset of the larger tourism industry.

critically analyse a special interest tourism activity and its impacts on key stakeholders

demonstrate a capability to design and plan a special interest tourism activity that meets the competing needs of key stakeholders

demonstrate the knowledge and skills to reflect upon the challenges confronting the special interest tourism sector and its impact on its stakeholders and how you as an industry professional respond to that.

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