Course topics.

Try this with Tourism

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• Tourism sectors, subsectors and the tourism system
• Collaboration and packaging between tourism sectors
• The role of governments and organisations in tourism
• Economic impacts, the multiplier effect, leakage and seasonality
• Mass, niche and special interest tourism
• Employment, labour shortages and external shocks to the industry
• Definitions of tourist and tourism
• Push and pull factors in traveller motivation
• Plog's model of tourist types: application and limitations
• Market segmentation, consumer behaviour and targeted campaigns
• Doxey's Irridex and sociocultural impacts of host-visitor interaction
• Responsible travel, media images, greenwashing and veneer environmentalism
• Sustainable tourism and the Triple Bottom Line
• The Butler Sequence: stages, usefulness and limitations
• Carrying capacity, environmental impacts and management methods
• Indigenous people, country and cultural sustainability in tourism
• Evaluating management strategies and writing justified recommendations
• Interpreting and calculating with tourism data
• Evaluating sources for validity, bias and accuracy
• Command words, Part B extended responses and time management