THM172 World Travel Destinations        
   
 
 

 

 

 Course Outline

 

Course Objectives:

This course intends to lay down the groundwork for learning about geography, destinations and selling travel. The major aim of this course is to familiarize the students with popular tourist destinations to understand and determine a client's needs, interest and expectations.

Structure:

The teaching structure and methods will be used in this course include lectures, discussions, internet exercises, slide shows, video sessions and oral presentations.

Schedule:

There are three hour lecture sessions per week as indicated on the academic schedule.  One of those wiill generally be allocated to the case studies, internet exercises and discussions.

Course Requirements:

  • Attendance: Students are expected to attend classes regularly.  The absence rate should not be more than 25% as regulated by the university.  Those students with above 25% absence will not be accepted to take the exams.

  • Participation: Students are expected to participate in the classroom discussions.

  • Examinations and Grading: There will be one final and one midterm examination which are in short essay format. 

  • Assignments and Internet Exercises: There will be internet exercises related to each topic covered in the course.  Depending on the nature of the exercise, students should submit their answers during the class time, or later as homework.  These assignments and internet exercises will be bonus.

  • Oral Presentations:  Students will prepare 2 oral presentations during the course.  These oral presentations will be chosen by the students themselves on the following main areas: (1) natural attraction or historical attraction (10 min) and (2) cultural or contemporary attraction (10 min.).  Students can choose their presentation topics from the following site and they will be graded by using the following criteria.   

Methods of Evaluation:

  • Oral Presentation: 50% (Natural or Historical Attraction: 25%; Cultural or Contemporary Attraction: 25%)

  • Final examination: 25%

  • Mid-term examination: 15%

  • Assignments and Internet Exercises: 10% (BONUS)

  • Participation: 10%

Course Book:

 

Reference Books:

World Tourism Organisation. International Tourism: A Global Perspective. WTO Tourism Education and Training Series. WTO. Madrid. (1997) 

Davidoff, P. G.; Davidoff D. S.; Eyre, J. D. Tourism Geography. Pren-Hall. New Jersey. (1988)

Foster, D. Travel and Tourism Management. The MacMillan Press Ltd. London. (1985)

Pearce, D. Tourist Development (2nd. ed.). Longman Group UK Ltd. Eseex. (1989)

Mathieson, A.; Wall, G. Tourism - economic, physical, and social impacts. Longman Group UK Ltd. Essex. (1982)

Holloway, J. C.; Plant R. V. Marketing for Tourism (2nd ed.). Pitman Publishing. London. (1992)

Lecture Notes:

Lecture notes will be available each week through this web site.  The lecture notes are based on the former course book (Travel Around the World by Weissman) and reference books cited above.  However, please be alert that the lecture notes alone would not be sufficient to pass the course safely.