Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development

By Prashant Kumar Gautam | Panjab University | Chandigarh

Learners enrolled: 675

This course is an attempt to prevent disorderly tourism development, in order to successfully overcome the daily changes that occur in turbulent surrounding, planning of sustainable tourism development occurs as the only way to do it successfully. So, sustainable development refers to the use without exploitation of natural, cultural and all other tourist resources from the current generation, it means to preserve them for future use by future generations. Since the development of tourism in a certain area largely dependent on natural and anthropogenic attractiveness which are located in the surrounding, the practicing of sustainable development gets more and more important.

Summary

Course Status :	Ongoing
Course Type :	Core
Language for course content :	English
Duration :	15 weeks
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Postgraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2024
End Date :	31 Oct 2024
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2024
Exam Date :	07 Dec 2024 IST
Exam Shift: :	Shift - II

Note: This exam date is subject to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1

Introductory Video

M01- Levels, type and process of planning

Week 2

M02- Conceptualization, Background Analysis, In-depth Research and Analysis Phase

M03- Tourism project feasibility study

Week 3

M04- Synthesis phase and preparation of statements in Destination planning

M05-Policy making bodies in India

M06-Involvement of Local community in tourism Development

Week 4

M07-An outline of L K Jha Committee, 1963

M08-National Tourism Policy, 1982

M09-Destination Development and its components

Week 5

M10- National action Plan on Tourism, 1992

M11- The latest policy document on tourism

M12- Tourism Planning at International, National and State Level

Week 6

M13- Tourism and Five year plans in India

M14- Objective Setting, Goal setting, Strategy setting and Plan writing

M15- Techniques of Plan Formulation

Week 7

M16- Planning for tourism Destinations

M17- Tourism planning, significance, Constraints, Grey areas and Scope

M18- Destination Life Cycle Concept

Week 8

M19- Sources of Funding, Incentives & Concessions extended for tourism Projects

M20- Economics of Tourism

M21- Positive and negative impacts of tourism (environmental, economic, socio-cultural).

Week 9

M22- Concept of mass tourism

M23- Emergence of alternative tourism, conventional versus alternative tourism

M24- Mass vis-à-vis selective tourism.

Week 10

M25- Synergism between tourism promotion & nature conservation

M26- Environment and tourism – areas of conflict, symbiosis and synergy

M27- Tourism in various bio-geographic realms and specific situation of environmental concern.

Week 11

M28- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Agenda 21

M29- Sustainable Development: Historical Background

M30- The Nature and Scope of Sustainable Tourism

Week 12

M31- Towards a New Approach to Sustainable Tourism Management

M32- Global Warming and Sustainable Development

M33- Environmental Dimension

Week 13

M34- Economic Dimension

M35- Social Dimension

M36- Sustainable Tourism Development-Guiding Principles for Planning and Management

Week 14

M37- Empowering Community through tourism

M38- Community based tourism

M39- Ecotourism

Week 15

M40- Future of Sustainable Tourism

(M= Module)

Books and references

Sustainable Tourism: A Global perspective by Rob Harris, Tony Griffin, Peter Williams , Butterworth –Heinemann.

Sustainable Tourism by S.P. Sing, http://www.bagchee.com/

Sustainable Development of Tourism: An Annotated Bibliography by World Tourism Organization.

Cases in Sustainable Tourism; an Experiential Approach to Making Decisions by lrene Herremans.

Sustainable Tourism; Theory and Practice by David Weaver Powell’s City of Books

Sustainable Tourism: Himalayan Experiences, S P Bansal & Prashant Gautam, Indus Publication

Instructor bio

Prashant Kumar Gautam

Panjab University | Chandigarh

Dr. Prashant Kumar Gautam is working as Professor of Tourism at Panjab University, Chandigarh. He is also serving as Dean, Faculty of Tourism & Hospitality at Punjab Technical University. In addition to this, he is

Member Himachal Pradesh State Higher Educational Council (HPSHEC), Govt. Of Himachal Pradesh (2019 onwards)
Treasurer of ITHC (Indian Tourism and Hospitality Congress): A National Association of Indian Tourism & Hospitality Academics. (2014 Onwards)
Member AICTE -All India Board of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2016 Onwards)
Member Board of Governors (BoG) Indian Institute of Tourism and Travel Management (An Organisation of Ministry of Tourism, Govt. Of India) (2019-21)
Associated in academic assignments with European University of Tourism (UET), Italy, Eurasian National University, Kazakhstan and University of Medditarian Karpasia, Cyprus.
Served as Director at Institute of Hotel and Tourism Management (UIHTM), Panjab University w.e.f. 19 August 2015 till 30.04.2019

He is having Teaching Experience of more than 20 years. He has published 14 books and 51 research papers. Under him 5 students have already completed their Ph.D. degree.

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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