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Offerings

KAPLAN-SGP-TJA-MIXEDMODE-2026-2026
KAPLAN-SGP-TMA-MIXEDMODE-2025-2025
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-INT-2024-2024
KAPLAN-SGP-TSA-MIXEDMODE-2026-2026
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Recognise the complexity of the issues relating to sustainability from the perspective of various stakeholders within the multifaceted tourism industry.

2.

Explain the evolution of sustainable tourism and key principles relating to the concept of the triple bottom line.

3.

Critically discuss and justify the importance of recognising ethical and values-based considerations on sustainable tourism; and review the Sustainable Development Goals from an international tourism perspective.

4.

Identify the outcomes and impacts of tourism development; and be able to recommend appropriate visitor and site management strategies to mitigate impacts on the destination.

5.

Describe and differentiate the various quality control tools being utilised for sustainable tourism; and be able to critique and develop sustainable tourism indicators applied in tourism practice.

6.

Discuss the requirements and processes for strategic sustainable tourism planning and marketing; including developing a strategic marketing plan at the local, regional and national level.

7.

Identify and critique the emerging trends and issues that may impact on the future of managing sustainable tourism and the tourism industry in general.

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Additional information

Unit content:The concept of sustainable development has generated a significant volume of tourism research and its application to tourism development and planning has resulted in a major new focus for tourism studies. Sustainable Development (SD) provides the underlying concepts upon which the Tourism Programme at Murdoch University is based, and is the basis upon which many events and tourism units are constructed. Sustainable Tourism (ST) is a values?based concept dependent on personal beliefs, ethics and value systems. Given that any definition of ST must be regarded as having a particular value?based input, there is a move away from the search for a single definition toward a broad philosophical understanding that, in our world of finite resources, all forms of development must move towards greater sustainability.