Tourism Planning and Development

This course incorporates the study of various models and strategies of tourism planning and development into a more detailed examination of its components—i.e., tourism policies and tourist offices, travel agencies, and the distribution of travel products and tour operators—and how these functioning branches interact with one another and the accommodations industry. .While the course also touches on tourism’s impact on the host country and the implications to domestic and the global markets—i.e., relevant statistical information, main waves of tourist movements, motivations of tourists, destination management, economic and ecological impacts of tourism, and the parts played by tourism suppliers and intermediaries—the main objective of the course is to help students understand and assess the role of planning techniques and processes on a local, national, regional, and global level in the development and management of sustainable tourism destinations and tourism products.