Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development
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Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development at Swayam Overview
Duration | 15 weeks |
Start from | Start Now |
Mode of learning | Online |
Difficulty level | Beginner |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development at Swayam Highlights
- Earn a certification after completion
- Learn from expert faculty
Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development at Swayam Course details
- Officials in tourism ministries and local government bodies
- Urban and regional planners
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of the principles and concepts of tourism planning and sustainable development
- Identify and explain the interrelationships between tourism, the environment, and socio-economic development
- Analyze and evaluate local, national, and international policies and regulations that impact tourism planning and sustainable development
- Develop strategies for compliance with these policies while promoting sustainable tourism practices
- This course is an attempt to prevent disorderly tourism development, in order to successfully overcome the daily changes that occur in turbulent surrounding, planning of sustainable tourism development occurs as the only way to do it successfully
- So, sustainable development refers to the use without exploitation of natural, cultural and all other tourist resources from the current generation, it means to preserve them for future use by future generations
- Since the development of tourism in a certain area largely dependent on natural and anthropogenic attractiveness which are located in the surrounding, the practicing of sustainable development gets more and more important
Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development at Swayam Curriculum
Week 1
Introductory Video
M01- Levels, type and process of planning
Week 2
M02- Conceptualization, Background Analysis, In-depth Research and Analysis Phase
M03- Tourism project feasibility study
Week 3
M04- Synthesis phase and preparation of statements in Destination planning
M05-Policy making bodies in India
M06-Involvement of Local community in tourism Development
Week 4
M07-An outline of L K Jha Committee, 1963
M08-National Tourism Policy, 1982
M09-Destination Development and its components
Week 5
M10- National action Plan on Tourism, 1992
M11- The latest policy document on tourism
M12- Tourism Planning at International, National and State Level
Week 6
M13- Tourism and Five year plans in India
M14- Objective Setting, Goal setting, Strategy setting and Plan writing
M15- Techniques of Plan Formulation
Week 7
M16- Planning for tourism Destinations
M17- Tourism planning, significance, Constraints, Grey areas and Scope
M18- Destination Life Cycle Concept
Week 8
M19- Sources of Funding, Incentives & Concessions extended for tourism Projects
M20- Economics of Tourism
M21- Positive and negative impacts of tourism (environmental, economic, socio-cultural)
Week 9
M22- Concept of mass tourism
M23- Emergence of alternative tourism, conventional versus alternative tourism
M24- Mass vis-à-vis selective tourism.
Week 10
M25- Synergism between tourism promotion & nature conservation
M26- Environment and tourism – areas of conflict, symbiosis and synergy
M27- Tourism in various bio-geographic realms and specific situation of environmental concern.
Week 11
M28- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Agenda 21
M29- Sustainable Development: Historical Background
M30- The Nature and Scope of Sustainable Tourism
Week 12
M31- Towards a New Approach to Sustainable Tourism Management
M32- Global Warming and Sustainable Development
M33- Environmental Dimension
Week 13
M34- Economic Dimension
M35- Social Dimension
M36- Sustainable Tourism Development-Guiding Principles for Planning and Management
Week 14
M37- Empowering Community through tourism
M38- Community based tourism
M39- Ecotourism
Week 15
M40- Future of Sustainable Tourism
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