Faculty of Business: Leisure, Sport and Tourism
Credit points: 6 cp

Subject level: Undergraduate

Result Type: Grade and marks

Requisite(s): 27184 Tourism and the Industry 1
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are also course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.

Handbook description

Further developing the managerially focused, general systems theory-based prerequisite subject, students complete a comprehensive systematic analysis and description of the essential elements involved in highly industrialised tourism in terms of their functional, structural, operational and interrelational attributes. By further and deeper consideration of the concepts and phenomena associated with the interrelationships between tourism and the significant environments with which it interacts, students gain a firm base of knowledge and understanding of the peculiarities of the specific contexts in which management within the tourism industry, and the overall management of tourism, are practised.

Subject objectives/outcomes

On successful completion of this subject students should be able to:

1. Apply general systems theory principles to analyse the full range of touristic phenomena, and to use appropriate macro- and micro- models for further investigation and application.
2. Demonstrate a clear conceptual understanding, and comprehensive working knowledge of the tourist attraction phenomenon as a partially industrialised process.
3. Articulate comprehensive knowledge and conceptual understanding of the full range of the major industrial, and other, elements and interrelationships involved in highly industrialised leisure-based tourism (and some related forms of travel) in the tourism destination region element of industrialised tourism systems.
4. Discuss the issues and problems involved in management within the tourism industry, and in the management of tourism systems.
5. Identify, locate, and describe Australia's and the world's major tourist destination regions.

Contribution to graduate profile

Tourism and the Industry 2 is the second of two subjects that form a core foundation for the Bachelor of Management in Tourism and Bachelor of Management in Tourism and Hospitality. By further pursuing a managerially-focussed, general systems theory-based approach students complete a comprehensive systematic analysis and description of the essential elements involved in highly industrialised tourism in terms of their functional, structural, operational, and interrelational attributes. The subject provides a further and deeper consideration of the concepts and phenomena associated with the interrelationships between tourism and the significant environments with which it interacts.

Teaching and learning strategies

Teaching and learning strategies employed in this subject include formal lectures, and interactive tutorials based around prescribed readings, and student presentations. Content for this subject will be supported by UTS Online.

Content

• Introduction and descriptive geography
• The tourism destination region (TDR)
• The tourist attraction phenomenon - the energiser of tourism systems
• Tourism industries in TDRs
• Industrialised tourism systems reviewed and re-examined in the context of managerial and policy strategies.

Assessment

Tutorial assessment (Individual)	20%
Individually-written preparation for, and participation in, a minimum of 10 tutorials. This addresses objectives 1-3 and 5.
Industrialised Tourism System Empirical Report (Group)	30%
This addresses objectives 1-4.
Final Examination (Individual)	50%
This addresses objectives 1-5.

For the tutorials, topics or questions are changed each semester. For the empirical work, questions are changed each semester and individual logs of contributions are assessed. The final exam is conducted under University examination conditions, and hence thoroughly addresses concerns regarding secure assessment. The examination involves randomised selection from a large item bank each semester, and the re-ordering of responses for questions that are re-used.

Recommended text(s)

Leiper, N. (2004). Tourism Management, 3rd edition. Sydney: Pearson Education Australia.

Stear, L. (2004). Definitions I Have Developed for Studying Highly Industrialised Tourism Systems. Sydney: School of Leisure, Sport, and Tourism, University of Technology, Sydney.

Indicative references

Kelly, I. and Nankervis, T. (2001), Visitor Destinations. Queensland: John Wiley and Sons.

Perlitz, L. and Elliott, S. (2001). Domestic Destinations. Sydney: Prentice Hall.

Perlitz, L. and Elliott, S. (2001). International Destinations. Sydney: Prentice Hall.

Stear, L. (2004). Studying Highly Industrialised Tourism Systems (Vol. 2). Sydney: Humble Publications.

Stear, L. (2002). A Model of a Highly Industrialised (International Travel) Tourism System. Sydney: Lloyd Stear.

Weaver, D. and Lawton, L. (2002). Tourism Management, 2nd edition. Queensland: John Wiley and Sons Australia Ltd.