COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TOURISM ECONOMICS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TUR 4104 TOURISM ECONOMICS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 5

Offered By

TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT

Level of Course Unit

Short Cycle Programmes (Associate's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÇIĞDEM MUTLU

Offered to

TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT
TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY MANAGEMENT (Evening)

Course Objective

To provide the students with competences on analyzing the economic effects of tourism by teaching tourism market, supply and demand equilibrium and exchange rate effect, income effect, employment effect and multiplier effect of tourism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Being able to count the income effect produced by each unit tourism expenditure
2   Being able to count the employment effect produced by each unit tourism investment
3   Being able to analyze tourism demand and supply
4   Being able to interpret the economic developments in toursim
5   Being able to watch the current improvements related tourism economics

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Foreign Trade
2 Balance Sheet of international travel
3 The effect of tourism on foreign Exchange
4 Income effect of tourism
5 The effect of tourism on employment
6 The effect of tourism on sectors
7 The effect of tourism on sectors
8 Mid-term Exam
9 The factors effecting tourism demand and tourism demand forecasting methods
10 Tourism supply and supply data
11 Analysis of tourism supply
12 Equilibrium in tourism market
13 The effect of tourism on goods and services price
14 Real economic effect of tourism
15 Real economic effect of tourism

Recomended or Required Reading

Turizm Ekonomisi, Ozan Bahar, Metin Kozak, Detay Yayınevi, Ankara, 2012, 226 sf.

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


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)

hulya.kurgun@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday -13:30/14:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 12 12
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51111111