COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞEBNEM GÖKÇEN

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

This course intends to give students the ability to conceive of fundamental developments in the tourism sector; to define diversification of tourism with its social and economic aspects, the relationship between tourism and urban regeneration and implications of tourism in context of planning; to explain the different approaches in tourism planning and the characteristics of the sector; and to consider tourism facility areas and premises of planning in both local and global cases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Hall, C.M (2000) Tourism Planning: Policies, Processes and Relationships. Prentice Hall. Pearson Education Limited, UK.
Urry, J. (1990) The Tourist Gaze. Sage, London, UK.
Law, C. M. (2002). Urban tourism: The visitor economy and growth of large cities (2nd ed.). London: Continuum.
Smith, M.K. (2007)Tourism, culture and regeneration. CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK.
Gezici, F. (1998). Sürdürülebilir bölgesel kalkınma amacında turizm eylemlerinin etkisi: Türkiye üzerine karşılaştırmalı bir araştırma (Yayımlanmamış Doktora Tezi). Istanbul: Istanbul Teknik Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü.
Gunn, C. A. (1988). Tourism planning (2nd ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis.
Gunn, C. A. & Var, T. (2002). Tourism planning: Basics, concepts, cases (4th ed.)New York: Routledge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The course consists of lectures, presentations and reading activities

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Defining and describing activities are assessed by the Interim Exam.
Interpretation and examination activities are assessed by the Term Paper.
Critical thinking is assessed by the Final Exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

sebnem.gokcen@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Tuesday 09.30-10:30; Friday 09:30-10:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes