COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOURISM ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IKT 4016 TOURISM ECONOMICS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Economics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLÇIN GÜREŞÇI

Offered to

Economics (Evening)
Economics

Course Objective

Evaluating sectoral features of tourism industry and examining economic, social, politic and cultural functions of tourism

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to evaluate manager candidate in the tourism
2   To be able to explain touristic activity and touristic product variety
3   To be able to evaluate employees in the tourism industry
4   To be able to evaluate tourism industry when studying in the other industry

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and classification of tourism and tourist
2 Development of Tourism and Development Reasons
3 Effects of international, economic, social, politic and cultural cahanges on tourism industry
4 Statisctical assessmant associated with world and Turkey tourism
5 Tourism market, tourism supply, tourism demand
6 Analysis of tourism supply and methods of anlaysing
7 Analaysis of tourism demand
8 Midterm exam
9 Midterm exam
10 Tourism industry, evolution and features of tourism industry
11 Monetary economic functions of tourism
12 Impact of tourism income generation, the effect of added value
13 Reel economic functions of tourism, employment effect, impact of the other industries
14 Effects of social politic and cultural on tourism

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Olalı, H. ve Timur, A. (1988). TURIZM EKONOMISI. Ofis Ticaret Matbaacılık Şti. IZMIR.
2. Dwyer, L. ve Forsyth, P (Ed.)(2006). International Handbook on the Economics of Tourism. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. UK

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Support the theoretical approaches with applications

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTEG * 1
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for midterm exam 1 8 8
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Others 10 3 30
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 110

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9
LO.111
LO.2111
LO.31
LO.41