Purpose of Assignment

This combined research project contemporary issues combinewill develop your skills of independent enquiry and critical analysis by undertaking a research investigation of direct relevance to your professional development. It will enable you to gain understanding of current issues and trends, and the impacts of and responses to change in travel and tourism. You will also gain understanding of the rationale and different approaches to tourism planning and development, sustainable tourism, current issues and impacts of tourism.

Learning outcomes for this unit are:

• Understand how to formulate a research specification
• Be able to implement the research project within agreed procedures and to specification
• Be able to evaluate the research outcomes
• Be able to present the research outcomes.
• Understand current issues in the travel and tourism sector
• Understand current trends in the travel and tourism sector
• Understand how the travel and tourism sector responds to change
• Understand the impacts of change on the travel and tourism sector.
• Understand the rationale for planning in the travel and tourism industry
• Understand different approaches to tourism planning and development
• Understand the need for planning for sustainable tourism
• Understand current issues related to tourism development planning
• Understand the socio-cultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism in developing countries and emerging destinations.

Assignment:

Research Project Contemporary Issues combine are research project assignments, NOT academic assignments. Research project assignments are based on data and information published and available online and offline. Therefore, you will be expected to do research projects for these assignments, and NOT write academic assignments based on theory.

Understand the need for planning for sustainable tourism

• justify the introduction of the concept of sustainability in tourism development
• analyse factors that may prevent/hinder sustainable tourism development
• analyse different stages in planning for sustainability

Understand current issues related to tourism development planning

• evaluate methods of resolving a conflict of interests to ensure the future wellbeing of a developing tourism destination
• analyse the implications of balancing supply and demand
• evaluate the moral and ethical issues of enclave tourism

Understand the sociocultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism in developing countries and emerging destinations

• compare current issues associated with tourism development in a developing country and an emerging destination where the impacts of tourism are different