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Level 6 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Adapting Planning Models to Destination Contexts

THM602 · Tourism Policy and Planning — Week 10 of 16

CourseTHM602
Week10 of 16
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This week’s topics

Adapting Planning Models to Destination Contexts

  1. Destination life cycle applications
  2. Carrying capacity and Limits of Acceptable Change
  3. Core-periphery and spatial planning frameworks
  4. Tailoring models to urban, rural, and island settings

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Adapt models of tourism planning to a specific tourist destination.

Activity

Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: adapt models of tourism planning to a specific tourist destination.

Study materials

Videos

  • Limits of acceptable change: Experiences of Barcelona · YouTube · UN Tourism · 8 min · for registered students
  • Separate measurement of tourism sustainability and destination carrying capacity · YouTube · UN Tourism · 11 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Tourism: The International Business (Mill, 2010), ch. 7: The planning of tourism · PDF · Other, textbook chapter; pp. 150–161 · for registered students
  • Government response to the de Bois Review of Destination Management Organisations (DCMS, 2022) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance · for registered students
  • OECD Tourism Trends and Policies 2024, Country profile: United Kingdom · PDF · Oecd, report; pp. 279–283 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Evolution and Foundations of Tourism Policy
  • Week 2: Approaches to Policy and Multi-Scalar Governance
  • Week 3: Tourism Policy Instruments
  • Week 4: Policy Implementation Dynamics and Issues
  • Week 5: Evaluating Tourism Policy Implementation
  • Week 6: Approaches to Tourism Planning
  • Week 7: External Environment and Tourism Planning
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Execution and Monitoring of Tourism Plans
  • Week 10: Adapting Planning Models to Destination Contexts
  • Week 11: Formulating a Comprehensive Tourism Plan Document
  • Week 12: Applying Tourism Policy and Planning in practice: case stud…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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