HOS 330 - Sustainable Global Tourism

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4; 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.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
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.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral 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

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.