Sustainable Tourism: Rethinking the Future

How can tourism be reimagined to better serve people and the planet? In this online course, you will analyse tourism through social science approaches (psychology, sociology, geography) and engage with tourism development trends such as voluntourism, community-based tourism and overtourism. You will integrate these concepts with an international team into a tourism case study of choice and take part in dynamic discussions to creatively rethink alternative visions for the development of tourism.

Please note: This course can only be followed online. To gain access to this online course you need to carefully follow the instructions on Brightspace after registration.

• Describe the latest tourism developments across the world

• Employ insights from various tourism disciplines to real life developments in tourism

• Discuss alternative visions through ongoing dialogues in your team and world cafe

• Create a convincing tourism vision for your team’s case

• Reflect on team’s vision and process next to personal contributions herein

• ? (50%) online module exams (20% & online final exam (30%)
• ? (25%) A team vision, which is assessed on Edx
• ? (25%) Assessed through a final staff assessment on Brightspace.

GEO25303 Introduction to Tourism and Society