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Level 6 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Aligning Tourism with International Development Goals

THM605 · Tourism and International Development — Week 11 of 16

CourseTHM605
Week11 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Aligning Tourism with International Development Goals

  1. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
  2. Poverty eradication strategies
  3. Fair-trade tourism networks
  4. Multi-stakeholder monitoring frameworks
  5. Lecture 58: ESG and SDG
  6. Does Fair Trade Help?

What you will be able to do

  • 4.3 Evaluate how tourism can be used to meet international development goals.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: evaluate how tourism can be used to meet international development goals.

Study materials

Videos

  • Does Fair Trade Help? · YouTube · Marginal Revolution University · 6 min · for registered students
  • INSTO Meeting 2017 - Local Actions Supporting SDGs - Ljubljana Tourism · YouTube · UN Tourism · 18 min · for registered students
  • Harnessing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Tourism as drivers of Sustainable Development · YouTube · UN Tourism · 72 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Tourism for Development: 20 Reasons Sustainable Tourism Counts for Development (World Bank Group, 2017) · Reading · Other, report · for registered students
  • GSTC Destination Criteria v2.0 with performance indicators and SDGs (2019) · PDF · Other, framework · for registered students
  • Global Code of Ethics for Tourism (UN Tourism brochure) · PDF · Un, framework · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Theories of International Development
  • Week 2: Categorisation and Status of Developing Nations
  • Week 3: The Global International Development Context
  • Week 4: Development Institutions and Governance
  • Week 5: Non-Governmental Organisations in Tourism Development
  • Week 6: Development Indicators and Measurement
  • Week 7: Evaluating Destination Development Status
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts in Emerging Destin…
  • Week 10: Tourism and the Sustainable Development Paradigm
  • Week 11: Aligning Tourism with International Development Goals
  • Week 12: Applying Tourism and International Development in practice:…
  • 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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