| CODE | TRS3321 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Tourism Policy and Planning | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 6 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Tourism Management | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Students are made aware of the equal but sequential importance of Policy and Planning in destination management. It realizes the growing realization that there can be no successful tourism management without professional policy drafting and related planning. Study-unit Aims: A step-by-step approach to the policy setting and planning processes whilst bringing together a substantial number of the issues and problematics covered in previous years/semesters into a manageable framework. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Discuss and evaluate the objectives of tourism policy; • Identify the influences and characteristics of tourism policy; • Demonstrate knowledge of the structure of tourism policy. 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: • Transform policy into reality through a successful planning process; • Integrate tourism policy and planning and set achievable goals. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Edgel, David L. and Swanson Jason R. (2019). Tourism Policy and Planning; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. London and New York: Routledge. - Mangion, M. L. (2022). Malta’s tourism development: themes, impacts, challenges, patterns and contrasts: Pointers for a framework for short/long-term tourism development. In: K. Andriotis, C. P. Cardoso & D. Stylidis (Eds.), Tourism planning and development in Western Europe, 32-50. Oxfordshire: CABI. - Mason, Peter (2021). Tourism Impacts, Planning and Management. Abingdon: Routledge. - MTA (2021-30) Malta Tourism Policy: Recover, Rethink, Revitalise - Philips, Ronda and Roberts, Sherma (2013). Tourism, Planning and Community Development. Abingdon: Routledge. - Picard, Robert G. (2020). Media and Communications Policy Making Processes, Dynamics and International Variations. Palgrave Global Media Policy and Business. - Saarinen, Jarkko, Rogerson, Christian M and Hall, C. Michael (2018). Tourism Planning and Development. Contemporary Cases and emerging Issues. London and New York: Routledge. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Marie Louise Mangion Dane Munro |
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