TOU 2201 Course Name: Principles of Tourism Resource Management (Core) Course Code: TOU.2201 Lecturer: Course Content

You might also like

Download as doc, pdf, or txt
Download as doc, pdf, or txt
You are on page 1of 1

TOU 2201 

Course name: Principles of Tourism Resource Management (Core) 


Course code: TOU.2201 
Lecturer:
Course content:

1. The nature of natural resources.


2. Concepts of resource management. Approaches in resource management (ecological, economic,
technological, ethnological and sustainability approaches).

3. Resource analysis for tourism. 

4. Resource appraisal for tourism (estimating demand and determining supply and implication for
resource management). 

5. Principles of resource allocation (role of spatial organization of resources and spatial interaction
processes).

6. Perceptions, attitudes and behavior and their implications for tourism resource management.
Relevance of the concepts of land evaluation, land capability and suitability, carrying capacity,
hard and risk to tourism resource management.

7. Poverty and its implications to natural resource management.

8. Environmental impact assessment issues.

9. Principles and ethics of natural resource conservation. 

10. Preservation versus conservation.

11. Restoration of degraded environments. 

12. Resources management Law and Policy.

You might also like