Tourism Planning & Development

Paper Code: 
MTM 423
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  • To know about meaning of tourism planning, level of planning and its significance.

 

Course Outcomes:

 

Course

Course outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

MTM 423

Tourism Planning & Development 

CO 165To describe the tourism planning, level of planning and its significance.

CO 166Analyze the Environmental & Socio-cultural Considerations in planning.

CO 167To appraise economic & political tourism planning consideration.

CO 168Analyze the Various approaches to tourism planning.

CO 169To Develop Tourism Plans and analyze related approaches & techniques.

CO 170Critically analyze various levels of planning and their strategic and tactical perspective.

Approach in teaching:

Discussion, Demonstration, Action Research, Project, Field Trip

 

Learning activities for the students:

Field activities, Simulation, Presentation, Giving tasks Field practical

 

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects
 

 

10.00
Unit I: 

Introduction, definition, Importance of Tourism Planning, Planning Process, Environmental & Socio-cultural Considerations in planning.

14.00
Unit II: 

Economic & political consideration in planning: Tourism Development and Economic Planning, Planning to Enhance Economic Benefits, Role of Government. Passive Role & Active Role, Political Stability and Other Considerations. Public Participation Issues.

12.00
Unit III: 

Approaches to tourism planning: Introduction, Levels and Types of Tourism Planning, Public and Private Sector, WTO Guidelines for planning approaches.

11.00
Unit IV: 

Developing Tourism Plans: Introduction, The Planning Process, Goals for Development, Components of Tourism Development, Plan Preparation, Supply-Side Planning Technique, Plan Formulation by Checklist Techniques, Approach to Implementation, Elements of Plan Implementation & monitoring.

13.00
Unit V: 

Strategic and tactical perspective of planning: Introduction, Defining Strategy, Importance of Strategic Management, Strategy Formulation, Strategic Planning Conventional Planning vs. Strategic Planning, Corporate Strategic Planning

Essential Readings: 

Environmental challenges towards Tourism V Dhulasi Birundha

References: 

Development of Tourism in India Nafees Khan
Handbook of Environmental guidelines for Indian Tourism. Ratandeep Singh
International Tourism Management A.K.Bhatia
Tourism Development and Resource conservation Jagmohan Negi
Tourism Development :Principles and Practices Bhatia
Tourism Planning Inskeep
Ensyclopedia in Planning (12 vol.series) P. C Sinha
Tourism Planning &Development: IGNOU books

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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