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Level 7 Diploma in Tourism and Hospitality Management

Tourism and the Global Development Agenda

THM703 · Tourism Policy and International Development — Week 9 of 16

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This week’s topics

Tourism and the Global Development Agenda

  1. Operationalising the UN Sustainable Development Goals
  2. Pro-poor tourism mechanisms
  3. Community-based tourism models
  4. Inclusive growth and female empowerment
  5. Week 3-Lecture 21 : Sustainable Development Goal (SDG)
  6. Making Economic Growth Inclusive Globally
  7. Lecture 58: ESG and SDG

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Critically evaluate how tourism can be used to meet international development goals.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate how tourism can be used to meet international development goals.

Study materials

Videos

  • Making Economic Growth Inclusive Globally · YouTube · Harvard Kennedy School · 12 min · for registered students
  • Harnessing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Tourism as drivers of Sustainable Development · YouTube · UN Tourism · 72 min · for registered students
  • International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. January 18, 2017 - ENGLISH · YouTube · UN Tourism · 75 min · for registered students
  • Workshop 1: Wine tourism as an engine for local development and community empowerment. · YouTube · UN Tourism · 71 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: Foundations and Evolution of Tourism Policy
  • Week 2: Approaches to Tourism Policy Formulation
  • Week 3: Multi-Scalar Governance and Institutional Frameworks
  • Week 4: Theories of International Development
  • Week 5: Evaluating Developing Nations in the Global Tourism Economy
  • Week 6: Destination Impacts of International Tourism
  • Week 7: Relational Dynamics in Sustainable Tourism Development
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Tourism and the Global Development Agenda
  • Week 10: Researching Development Issues in Tourism
  • Week 11: Project Planning for Tourism-Led Development
  • Week 12: Applying Tourism Policy and International Development in pr…
  • 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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