27705 Industrialised Tourism Systems

Subject level: Postgraduate

Handbook description

This subject is a core foundation subject in the Tourism Management courses. It systematically analyses the essential elements of industrialised tourism in terms of their functional, structural, operational, and interrelational attributes. It also examines the nature of the interrelationships between tourism and the significant environments with which it interacts. It provides students with knowledge and understanding of the specific and general contexts within which management in, and management of, industrialised tourism are practised.

Subject objectives/outcomes

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

1. Demonstrate a conceptual and workable knowledge of the major elements, fields, flows, and events involved in industrialised leisure-based tourism and the ability to distinguish it from other forms of travel for study and management purposes.
2. Demonstrate the ability to use general systems theory principles and techniques to analyse and describe industrialised tourism and to interpret or develop relevant models for explanation or further investigation within the touristic trip generating regions and touristic transit routes.
3. Investigate tourism's elements in terms of their functions, structures, operations, and intra , and extra-systemic interrelationships.
4. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the interrelationships between tourism (and its individual elements) and the dynamic environments with which it interacts.
5. Apply the knowledge referred to in objective four to environmentally sensitive sustainable management and other business practices in firms and organisations in industrialised tourism systems.

Contribution to graduate profile

This is a compulsory core foundation subject. It makes a major contribution as this subject provides a systems-based overview of the tourism phenomenon; its impacts on industry firms, the tourist, and tourism's broader environments. By systematically analysing the essential elements of industrialised tourism in terms of their functional, structural, operational, and interrelational attributes, and by examining the nature of the interrelationships between tourism and the significant environments with which it interacts it provides students with knowledge and understanding of the specific and general contexts within which management in, and management of tourism are practiced.

Teaching and learning strategies

This subject is presented via one two-hour lecture session per week, supplemented by seminar discussions, and student field research and project workshops. Seminar discussions are based on prescribed readings and discussion questions supplied by students and the lecturer.

Content

• Introduction to Tourism
• General Systems Theory and its Application in Tourism Studies
• The Tourism Industry
• Tourism's Environments
• Tourists and Other Travellers as a System Element
• Touristic Trip Generating Regions (TTGRs) as a System Element
• The Tourism Industry in TTGRs
• Touristic Travel Routes (TTRs) as a System Element and The Tourism Industry in TTRs

Assessment

Recommended text(s)

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

Indicative references

Cooper, C., Fletcher, J., Gilbert, D. & Wanhill, S. (1998), Tourism: Principles and Practice, 2nd edition. Harlow, Essex, UK: Addison Wesley Longman.

MacCannell, D. (1999), The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Schocken Books.

Pearce, P., Morrison, A., and Rutledge, J. (1998), Tourism: Bridges Across Continents. Sydney: McGraw-Hill.

Weaver, D. and Oppermann, M. (2000), Tourism Management. Brisbane: John Wiley and Sons Australia.