School Of Social SciencesWorking with CommunitiesWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101276.1
Discipline: TOURISM MANAGEMENT
Student Contribution Band: 3
Level: 1
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
EH212A - Tourism & Community Studies, EH209A - Health Impacts of Tourism
About this Unit
In 2010 this unit replaced by 101553 - Organisations, Communities and Communication. The concept of sustainable tourism is premised on the ideal that tourism development equates to community development and benefits for local people. Whilst a worthy concept, it is rarely a simple or necessarily entirely positive relationship. Students will explore contemporary understanding of community and the many different kinds of communities, including their modalities, structures, roles and contested nature. They will examine the relationships between communities and tourism; map the natural, cultural and social capital and the processes within communities that are essential to the success of tourism through field work in popular tourists 'destination' communities in Sydney.