HOS 330 - Sustainable Global Tourism

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-D; Sustainability
Introduction and implications for management, marketing, and planning of sustainable global tourism. Topics include tourism development; advancement of sustainable development; socio-cultural, economic, and environmental and physical dimensions of sustainable tourism; impacts of tourism development; and facilities and retro-development.

Prerequisites: Completion of GE areas A1, A2, A3, and B4, all with grades of C- (CR) or better
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-D - Upper Division Social Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Explain the philosophy, scope, and principles of tourism and sustainable development.
Identify sustainable tourism, with the variety of actors involved, and its active and long-term nature.
Compare sustainable and non-sustainable practices in tourism developments with cultural, economic and environmental implications.
Identify challenges, opportunities, strengths, and weaknesses of sustainable tourism in different geographical locations.
Recognize specific socio-cultural, environmental and economic impacts of tourism at various levels (the individual business, the community, and greater society).
Identify strategies to lessen negative impacts and enhance positive impacts of tourism.
Evaluate and monitor indicators of community development.
Identify different types of niche tourism activities (e.g. volunteer tourism; agritourism) with the potential to advance sustainable community development.
Support students’ analytical, communication and critical thinking skills
Investigate and reflect on the role of sustainable practices in promoting ethics and preserving arts, religion, human geography, and history, enriching a tourist destination’s identity as well as the lives and experiences of locals and guests.

UD-D. Upper-division Social Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, either in general or in relation to a specific problem;
analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems;
describe key threats to environmental sustainability; and
explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for sustainability at the local, regional, and/or global levels.