TOU303: Tourism Management

This unit examines the management of the tourism system with a focus on 'destinations'. It can include, for example, trends and globalisation, business development (addressing design, planning marketing, litigation issues), destination management (including strategic planning) and sectorial management trends and issues (including tour operations, the travel sector, accommodation sector and attractions). Project management may be used to guide study of this unit in the context of group projects.

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Points	4
Enrolment Options	Murdoch: S2-internal
Contact Time	Lectures/workshops: up to 3 hours per week.
Prerequisites	S116/TOU101 Introduction to Tourism Systems or S115/TOU102 Introduction to Travel and Tourism; R208/TOU201 Sustainable Tourism. Highly recommended: C145/BUS145 Principles of Management and completion of at least 24 points of Part II level units.
School	School of Social Sciences and Humanities
Unit Coordinator	Mr Dave Cooper Position: Lecturer in Tourism E-mail: D.Cooper@murdoch.edu.au Location: Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 2.023 Phone: Prefix: +618 9360 6383
Unit Contacts	Contact Phone Prefix: +618 Location Explanation of Location Codes Teaching Period(s) Mr Dave Cooper Lecturer in Tourism (D.Cooper@murdoch.edu.au) 9360 6383 Murdoch Campus Social Sciences Room 2.023 MURDOCH S2: Internal (02/08/2010 - 26/11/2010)

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Key to Offshore Campus Location abbreviations: APMISIN Asia Pacific Management Institute (Singapore) CEJTOKYO Chiropractic Education Japan (Tokyo) JKURASHIKI NET Corporation (Kurashiki, Japan) KDUPG KDU College (Penang, Malaysia) KDUPJ KDU College (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia) SGP-REPOLY Republic Polytechnic (Singapore) SMANUFED Singapore Manufacturing Federation ZHENGZHOU Zhengzhou University (China)