Geography of Tourism

By Prof. A. Balasubramanian | DoS in Geology, University of Mysore

Learners enrolled: 661

Tourism phenomenon has its roots in the humanly needs of seeing other places and discovering the unknown areas and the geography refers to the researches on spatial dispersions, climatic conditions and physical conditions of an area. Human-beings seek and try to see things they do not have in their geography, and for this reason they try to visit different geographies. Hence, geographical features of a destination may become main attraction for tourists. Tourism and Geography are so closely related that, the success of tourism activities is dependent on the geographical conditions. So, Tourism needs a physical geography for its ventures.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	04 Jul 2022
End Date :	30 Sep 2022
Enrollment Ends :	15 Sep 2022
Exam Date :

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Course layout

Week – I 1. Introduction to Geography | 2.Geography and Tourism | 3.Geography of Travel | 4.Classification of Resources |

Week –II 5. Conservation of Biodiversity | 6. Tourism in Africa – Introduction: Part – I | 7.Tourism in Africa – Introduction: Part – II | 8. Tourism Attractions in Singapore and Indonesia |

Week – III -9. Tourism Attractions in Thailand and Malaysia |10. Tourism in Gulf Countries: Part I |11. Tourism in Gulf countries Part - II |12. Tourism in South East Asia: Part – I |

Week - IV -13. Tourism in South East Asia: Part – II |14.Tourist attractions and activities in Egypt, Kenya and Uganda | 15.Tourist attractions in South Africa and emerging Tourist Destinations in Africa |16. North America |

Week – V -17. Central & South America |18. Europe |19. Africa | 20. Asia |

Week – VI - 21. Australia | 22. New Zealand | 23. Antarctica |

Week – VII - 24. Cultural Geography | 25. Outline of Urban Geography | 26. Island Biogeography |

Week - VIII - 27. Tourism in India - Arunachal Pradesh | 28. Tourism in India - Assam | 29. Tourism in India - Goa |

Week – IX - 30. Geography of Kerala | 31. Geography of Goa | 32. Geography of Karnataka | 33. Geography of Gujarat |

Week - X - 34. Geography of Odisha | 35. Sustainable Development | 36. Geography of Himachal Pradesh |

Week - XI -37. Geography of Madhya Pradesh | 38. Geography of Tamil Nadu | 39. Geography of Puducherry | 40. Career in Geography|

Books and references

Reading material	Author & Year	Type of publication (article/notes)	Content Abstract	Number of pages
A Geography of World Tourism	Milton Rafferty (1993)	Text Book	Geography around the world and its impact on tourism	1090
Worldwide destinations: The Geography of Travel and Tourism	Boniface and Coopers (2006)	Text Book	A brief explanation of well known destinations around the world based on geographical conditions	624
Worldwide destinations Casebook: The geography of Travel and Tourism	Boniface and Coopers (2009)	Text Book	Comprehensive Case studies on 38 international tourism destinations.	324
Tourism Geography	Geethanjali(2010)	Text Book	Fundamentals of geography and its linkages with tourism	356
National Geographic Learning's Visual Geography of Travel and Tourism	Harssel, Jackson and Hudman (2014)	Reference book	Geography of important tourist destinations around the world	640
Geography of Travel and Tourism	Dr.ChaturbhujMamoria and Komal Singh	Text	Geography and Tourism linkages explained in simple words.	148
India - A comprehensive Geography.	D.R Khullar	Reference book	Comprehensive information about Indian geography	650

Instructor bio

Prof. A. Balasubramanian

DoS in Geology, University of Mysore

Prof. A. Balasubramanian, Course coordinator is serving as Professor of Earth Science at the DOS in Earth Science at the University of Mysore. He developed various documentary films on tourism, geography and socio economic originated programs for UGC’s Higher education channel. He did his Ph.D in Hydrogeology and water resources evaluation with digital numerical simulation methods, by developing useful Software. He conducted his advanced numerical and experimental modelling research on Dense Contaminant Transport, at the Dept. of Civil and Systems Engineering, James Cook University of North Queensland, Australia. His computer programs like, HYCH (Hydrochemicalfacies analysis, FLOMOD - for two-dimensional groundwater flow analysis, AQPARM (APE) for aquifer parameter evaluation, PRINCI for principal component analysis, RMULT- for multiple regression, TIMESER- for time series analysis, POLYNOM and MORPHO, were used during the last three decades, by several scholars. He has authored seven books, published over 150 research papers, 175 e-learning lessons, 400 documentaries in Earth Science, Geography, Tourism and other subjects. He is the recipient of Vikram Sarabhai Lifetime Achievement Award in 2008 and Dr. Abdul Kalam National Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2017.

He served as Dean, Faculty of Science & Technology, and Director of Centre for Information Science &Technology (CIST), Educational Multimedia Research Centre (UGC) at the University of Mysore, and also as Director of Culture and Cultural Relations (Statutory Position) at Pondicherry University, during the last two decades. He has 37 years of teaching, research and administrative experience. He developed curriculum for Master Degree courses, taught computer applications, conducted a dozen major projects and participated in hundreds of academic ventures, in several institutions.

He has developed e-contents for more than 200 topics, for CEC in Geography, Tourism and allied subjects.

Course certificate

Assessment/Assignment marks will be considered for Internal Marks and will carry 30 percent for overall Result.

End Term Exam- will have 100 questions and will carry 70 percent of overall Result.

*All students, who obtain 40% marks in in-course assessment and 40% marks in end-term proctored exam separately, will be eligible for certificate and credit transfer.

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