COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 4222 TOURISM AND ENVIRONMENT COMPULSORY 3 0 0 3

Offered By

TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR ÇIĞDEM MUTLU

Offered to

TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT (Evening)

Course Objective

To evaluate the protective and developing practices about environment by emphasizing the relation between tourism and environment from the point of tourism industry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to have knowledge of the concepts about tourism and environment
2   Being able to comment on tourism movements in the world and interaction with environment of the movements in question.
3   Being able to give opinions about the contribution of natural environment on tourism demand.
4   Being able to analyze the positive and negative bringings of tourism industry on environment.
5   Being able to understand the importance of environment and make an inference about tourism investment in the future.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Tourism event and its development in the world and Turkey
2 Environment description, environmental values, environmental economics
3 Environmental approach in the developing and less developed countries
4 Tourism types and the effect of environment on tourism types formation
5 The effect of tourism on environment
6 Sustainable development and tourism
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Mid-Term Exam
9 Sustainable tourism
10 Base drifts in travel industry and sustainable tourism
11 Sustainable tourism in hospitality industry
12 Sustainable tourism in travel and tourism operations
13 Examples of sustainable tourism project from the world
14 Examples of sustainable tourism project from Turkey

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbooks: Kahraman, N. ve Türkay, O. (2003), Turizm ve Çevre, Ankara: Detay Yayıncılık
Supplementary books: Statistics

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FN Final
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE VZ*0.40 + FN* 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ*0.40 + BUT* 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Mid-term exam and final exam

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

nilufer.kocak@deu.edu.tr

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
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 80

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17PO.18
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51