HGT Unit Details as at 13th June, 2002
Foundations of Tourism A
Enrolment code: HGT101
Offered: Launceston: semester 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
Outlines the principles of tourism, with a focus on the structure of tourism as systems, the
multiplicity of industries within these systems, the encompassing structures provided by
governments without which tourism cannot exist, and host communities. Topics include:
sustainable tourism and tourism systems; tourism information material; geography of
tourism; tourism models; and tourism and transportation.
Staff Prof T Sofield
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 2,000-word (max) assignment (40%), 2-hr exam (60%)
Required texts etc
Urry J, The Tourist Gaze, ISBN 080398283X [p/b] 0803981821 [h/b]
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Foundations of Tourism B
Enrolment code: HGT102
Offered: Launceston: 2
Continuing from HGT101 Foundations in Tourism A, this unit looks at the diversity and
resources of tourism. Topics include: marketing for tourism and tourist typologies;
tourism resources such as the environment, facilities, host cultures; the impacts of tourism;
and tourism policy and planning. These topics include an exploration into federal, state
and local government approaches to tourism in Australia and policies such as ecologically
sustainable tourism.
Staff Dr A Hardy
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 2,000-word (max) assignment (40%), 2-hr exam (60%)
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Tourism Geography
Enrolment code: HGT103
Offered: Launceston: 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
Provides an introduction to the relationship between tourism and geography. Geography
may be defined as the study of the structure and interaction of two major systems – the
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ecological system that links human beings to their environment and the spatial system that
links one area of the earth’s surface with another. From a geographical point of view,
tourism consists of: first, the countries of origin of tourists, or generating areas; second, the
tourist destination countries themselves; and finally, the routes travelled between these
two sets of locations. This unit thus introduces the fundamentals of physical geography;
the way in which physical features have a fundamental affect on world climates; climate as
a key factor impacting on attractions, access and activities and therefore the distribution of
tourism; cartography without which an understanding of planning and analysis for
tourism destinations would be incomplete; and the manner in which physical and cultural
features may be utilised as tourism resources.
Staff tba
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (20%), workbook (40%) 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
tba
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Australian Tourism Typologies
Enrolment code: HGT104
Offered: Launceston: 2
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
A major goal of the subject is to familiarise students with the variety of Australian tourism
development and expose them to multiple examples of tourism businesses and
entrepreneurship. The unit will take a thematic approach to exploring tourism product in
Australia covering a conceptual introduction, chief characteristics, visitation segmentation,
development strategies, tourist behaviour, etc. Site visits to Tasmanian examples will be
undertaken. Students will gain an understanding of the complex system and the nature of
tourism in Australia; comprehension of different typologies of tourism products; an
understanding of different models for development of tourism, and their application in
Australia; be able to analyse the issues confronting the further development of tourism;
and be familiar with the Australian tourism product. Twenty themes have been identified,
including iconography tourism; sports tourism; urban tourism; casinos, conventions,
exhibitions and events tourism; theme parks; islands tourism; cultural festivals; wine
tourism; farm tourism; industrial tourism; and tourism information centres.
Staff tba
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 1,500-word essay (20%), 1,000-word field trip report (20%) 2-hr exam
(60%)
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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Eco and Nature-based Tourism
Enrolment code: HGT201 or HGT301
Offered: Launceston: semester 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
Gives students a broad and analytical understanding of two forms of tourism:
nature-based and ecotourism. It covers: the history of tourism and the importance of
natural areas as a setting for tourism; the changing nature of the tourists and tourism in
the twentieth century; sustainable development and its application to the tourism
industry; the origins of ecotourism; the differences between nature-based and ecotourism
and definitional debates surrounding the concepts; the key elements of ecotourism and its
application on a worldwide, Australian and Tasmania scale; and the planning and
management involved in nature-based and ecotourism. Students learn to assess such
aspects as impacts, management, best practice, self regulation, accreditation, ethics,
legalities and monitoring.
Staff Ms A Hardy
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2 lectures weekly, 4 x 1-hr tutorials, one 2-day excursion
Prerequisites HGT101 and HGT202 (BTourism students)
Assessment mode 3,000-word report (40%), exam (60%)
Required texts etc
tba
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Sustainable Tourism
Enrolment code: HGT203
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
The principles of ecologically sustainable development have been clearly enunciated since
the UN Brundtland Report of 1987 and Sustainable Tourism is a specialised application of
those principles. This unit examines the ways in which our understanding of tourism has
changed to meet the changing nature of what ‘development’ encompasses, moving from
the simple ‘economic growth’ model of the 1950s and 1960s to the 1990s concept of ESD
and how it may apply to tourism. At the completion of this unit students should have:
acquired understanding of the principles of ecologically sustainable tourism (EST)
especially as they are applied to the discourse surrounding the problematic of
operationalisation for tourism; and developed some familiarity with different research
tools and regimes for the management of ecologically sustainable tourism (EST) and
attained the capacity to dissect and appraise EST objectively.
Staff Prof T Sofield; Ms A Hardy
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
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Prerequisites HGT101 and HGT102 for students enrolled in the BTourism or completion of
first year for non BTourism students
Assessment mode 2,000-word essay (25%), 1,000-word tutorial presentation (15%), 3-hr exam
(60%)
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
International Issues in Tourism
Enrolment code: HGT204
Offered: Launceston: semester 2
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
One of the principal aims of the unit is to introduce the student to the global dimensions of
what is now one of the ‘Top Three’ industries in the world – tourism, which ranks in
income generation, sales and employment with oil and motor vehicles.
Globalisation/localisation and interconnectedness will inform the discourse about
international tourism issues, since the tourism system is a powerful force which both
supports the notion of globalisation and contests it. Indeed, in many instances tourism
strives to highlight difference, create or even recreate difference, aggressively re-imaging,
re-constituting and appropriating heritage, culture and place, pursuing localisation in
marked contrast to its globalising influence. In this context the unit would include such
topics as the politicisation of tourism, global development strategies, enclave tourism in
third world countries, international tourism and the environment, sex and tourism,
pilgrimage tourism, dependency and core-periphery tourism, and tourism in centrally
controlled economies. At the end of the course, students should be familiar with global
trends in tourism and have developed a capacity to analyse a wide range of international
tourism issues.
Staff Prof T Sofield
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites HGT101 and HGT102 for students enrolled in the BTourism or completion of
first year for non BTourism students
Assessment mode 1,500–2,000-word essay (20%), 3,000-word tutorial small group
presentation (30%), 3-hr exam (50%)
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Natural Environment: Interpretation
Enrolment code: HGT207 or HGT307
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses
Interpretation of the natural environment is a key component of any nature-based tourism
experience. Without it, tourists would not be inspired to engage in the activity, would not
be able to find their way to locations, nor would they understand the significance of the
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area that they were visiting. From subliminal interpretation such as music and architecture
through to the more obvious forms such as maps, information boards and guiding,
interpretation also acts a key variable in creating a satisfactory tourism experience.
The purpose of this unit is to give students an understanding of ways in which the natural
environment can be interpreted. As well as examining different forms of interpretation, it
will explore key learning theories related to communication. It will also provide an
understanding of ways in which interpretation and communication can be planned and
evaluated.
Staff Ms A Hardy
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture weekly, 1-hr tutorial fortnightly (13 wks)
Assessment mode presentation (10%), 3,000-word report (40%), exam (50%)
Required texts etc
Sam Ham, Environmental Interpretation, ISBN 1555919022 [p/b]
Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Tourism Policy and Planning
Enrolment code: HGT305
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses; to be offered in Launceston
in 2003
Serves the over-all purpose of linking the content of tourism core units through the
processes of policy formulation and planning. It focuses on both public and industry
policy and planning, grounded firmly in the principles of ecologically sustainable tourism.
The role and functions of governments in policy, planning, regulation and management of
tourism are pervasive. The unit relates development theory to tourism, and explores
theories and principles of public policy formulation for tourism, structures and forms of
government involvement with tourism, decisionmaking processes by governments and
their bureaucracies, the integrated nature of government and the private sector vis-a-vis
tourism, and tourism industry planning models. This unit explores different approaches to
tourism policy, planning and development by Australia, and South Pacific and Asian
countries.
Staff Prof T Sofield
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture, 2 hrs workshop (13 wks)
Prerequisites HGT203
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (10%), workshop diary, 12 weekly entries (20%),
3,000-word essay (30%), exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Hogwood, Gunn, Policy Analysis for the Real World, 1984, ISBN 198761848 [p/b]
Gunn, Tourism Planning, 3rd edn, 1988, ISBN 0844815403
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Courses [R3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Tourism Project
Enrolment code: HGT306
Offered: Hobart: semester 2
Special note: may be taken as an elective by students in other courses; to be offered at Launceston
in 2003, sem 1 as 25% unit
Applies the learning students have gained from completing a range of tourism-specific
units and a compulsory research methodologies unit in the preceding two-and-a-half
years, to either a research situation or through a tourism industry experience which has a
lesser research report requirement. Research projects are to be designed in concert with a
supervisor, the outcome of which will be a mini-thesis (covering literature review;
statement of the research question/issue; investigation/findings; and analysis). At this
level it is anticipated that most would involve secondary rather than primary research.
Industry experience will require detailed discussion with an academic supervisor and an
industry supervisor, a structured environment in the workplace for experiential learning,
and an analytical report related to one or more aspects of the workplace experience.
Staff Prof T Sofield, Ms A Hardy, other tba
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr workshop weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites completion of at least 250% for the B.Tourism, including HGA203/303 Social
and Political Research
Assessment mode 8,000–10,000-word tourism project/essay, and 4,000–5,000-word Tourism
Industry Experience essay; no exam
Courses [R3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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