Sustainability & Tourism

Department
  • Master's Program Entrepreneurship & Tourism
Course unit code
  • TOU-MMT-3-ITO-STO-ILV
Number of ECTS credits allocated
  • 3.0
Name of lecturer(s)
  • FH-Prof. Dr. Bosio Birgit, Dr. Bottrill Chris
Mode of delivery
  • face-to-face
Recommended optional program components
  • none
Recommended or required reading
  • Reading 1: Bottrill, Kelly and Carnovale: Inconvenient Truths: PATA Compass Magazine, November/December 2012

    Reading 2: Bosio, B. and Bottrill, C, (2016) Sustainable Tourism Management - Best Practices in International Tourism. In, Siller, H and Zehrer A, Entrepreneurship und Tourismus: Unternehmerisches Denken und Erfolgskonzepte aus der Praxis. Linde Verlag GmbH


    Reading 3: Oxford Economics (2014): Shaping the Future of Travel: Macro Trends Driving Industry Growth over the next Decade. http://www.amadeus.com/documents/Thought-leadership-reports/Amadeus-Shaping-the-Future-of-Travel-MacroTrends-Report.pdf

    Reading 4: WTTC Climate Change - Connecting Global Climate Action (executive summary) 2015: https://www.wttc.org/-/media/files/reports/policy%20research/tt%202015%20%20connecting%20global%20climate%20action%20executive%20summary%20a4%208pp%20web.pdf

    Reading 5: IATA Sustainable Aviation Fuel Roadmap 2015. http://www.iata.org/whatwedo/environment/Documents/safr-1-2015.pdf

    Reading 6: Becken S, Mackey, B (2017) What role for offsetting aviation greenhouse gas emissions in a deep-cut carbon world? Journal of Air Transport Management 63 (p71-83)

    Reading 7: Bottrill, C, Carnovale, C (2017) PATA Issues and Trends Volume 22: Community Based Tourism.

    Reading 8: Skift (2017). Overtourism issues can no longer be brushed aside as someone else's problem: https://skift.com/2017/08/15/overtourism-issues-can-no-longer-be-brushed-aside-as-someone-elses-problem/?utm_campaign=Daily%20Newsletter&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=55277923&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9_V5ydAhviQxMAIJyjZhS7Z2U-3QCe_gDYq48QujOS0C5SjKj07Z_b8cp2layVD5ISV4LYpCxKP6RDbR18MVBGPt5Efw&_hsmi=55277923

    Reading 9: PATA (2015) Indigenous Tourism and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific: Review, Analysis, Checklists.Additional Reading 1: McCollum, Gould, Greene (2009) Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Aviation and Marine Transportation: Mitigation potential and policies

    Additional Reading 2: WTTC Hotel Carbon Measurement Initiative Methodology FINAL

    Additional Reading 3: Indigenous Tourism and Human Rights in the Asia Pacific: Review, Analysis, Checklists 2015
Assessment methods and criteria
  • Project work
Level of course unit
  • Master
Year of study
  • Fall 2025
Semester when the course unit is delivered
  • 1
Language of instruction
  • English
Learning outcomes of the course unit
  • By the end of this course, participants will:

    • Understand and be able to apply theory and principles of sustainable development and its application to tourism
    • Understand and explain major challenges to sustainability in tourism at a global to local level
    • Recognize and articulate implications of sustainability challenges in tourism on the rights of individuals in a variety of global contexts
    • Know and be able to apply a variety of business and operational techniques, approaches and solutions for sustainability challenges in tourism at a local to global level
    • Understand planning and policy implications, approaches, and opportunities for addressing sustainability in tourism at a local to global level
    • Understand and explain challenges, dynamics, and approaches toward sustainability in tourism at a community level in various global contexts
    • Develop personal consciousness of sustainability challenges and related tourism management solutions
Course contents
  • - History and development of sustainability and sustainable tourism
    - Definition and differentiation of terms of sustainability and sustainable tourism
    - Players in sustainable tourism (organizations, governments, tourism industry, tourists, etc.)
    - Selected market conditions analysis with focus on LOHAS
    - Measurability of sustainable tourism (eco labels, CSR, indicator systems, etc.)
    - Focussed analysis of climate change and the role and relationship of tourism to this global concern
    - Deep and Shallow Ecology and its application to Tourism
    - Ecotourism as a form of sustainable tourism – a pre-curser to climate change related policy and processes
    - Green management and carbon reduction strategies for enhanced business operation
    - Social entrepreneurship in the context of tourism sustainability – social enterprise to social transformation – TaPhin and Lao Chai, Vietnam
    - Personal perceptions and actions toward sustainability
    - The social context of sustainable development: The case of waterfront development in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
    - Applying concepts of clustering and network development to enhance sustainable tourism outcomes in applied settings: Cases from New Zealand and Canada
    - Sustainable fuels and Aviation: Goals, Requirements, Realities
    - Sustainability in the context of human rights and indigenous tourism in the Asia Pacific: Goals and responsibilities of stakeholders
    - Can tourism be sustainable in the future?
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • The course comprises an interactive mix of lectures, discussions and individual and group work.
Work placement(s)
  • none

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