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Unit of Study TOUR2001 - Sustainable Tourism (2023)

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Unit description

Examines concepts of sustainability and regeneration in relation to tourism. Students will apply them in developing a sustainable tourism project.

Unit content

Module 1: Sustainability and tourism: history, concepts and principles

Module 2: Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals

Module 3: Developing tourism with a purpose: examples, tools and systems thinking

Module 4: Considering impacts on stakeholders and contexts: socio-cultural, environmental and economic

Module 5: Grant writing for success

Module 6: A future with sustainable tourism?

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

understand the concepts of sustainability and regeneration in tourism contexts

evaluate the impacts of tourism

create a grant application.

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