Towards Sustainability and Resilience in Tourism and Hospitality I

This course deals with how to create a more sustainable, resilient and relevant tourism industry. The course provides tourism professionals and students with the opportunity to develop skills that will enable them to understand different contemporary tourism related phenomena, prepare them for unexpected changes in society, and promote a desirable future for tourism. The course adopts a social-science perspective that encourages critical thinking and the use of research based knowledge and theories. The course focuses on analysing the current situation of the tourism system at global and local levels that include economic, social and environmental factors as well as possible future scenarios for tourism development. The course focuses on the sectors of tourism and hospitality; however, it also has broad applicability and relevance for professionals from other service based industries.