Emerging Trends in Tourism and Destination Management

On successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. Critically review the key trends driving change in the tourism and destination management sector at both local and global levels to assist decision making;
2. Deduce key trends through interpreting and critiquing academic theory and current industry practice of the key challenges that the sector faces;
3. Analyse complex problems including industry disruptions to successfully advance sector competitiveness and consumer satisfaction;
4. Concisely advocate and substantiate professional judgments to a variety of audiences through a diagnosis of emerging challenges that may inhibit growth in the sector, proposing creative strategies to combat them exemplifying ethical responsibility and evidence-based decision-making;
5. Cross-examine inter-cultural understandings, transnational relations, sustainability agendas and economic development in the context of contemporary tourism, hospitality and event management issues and their contribution to local and global communities.