Course Description
Examines social-cultural aspects surrounding the impacts, planning, and management of tourism development at the community level. A survey of various topics will prepare students to undertake a community-focused research project examining residents' perceptions of tourism impacts as an aspect of tourism planning to inform management decisions.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Each graduate student will serve as a project manager for the
research study that the class will undertake. As such, each
graduate student will assist in logistical planning of the
research design, data collection, sampling, and data analysis.
Each week, each graduate student will submit a one-page
written progress report regarding the research project. Within
the report, graduate students will comment on accomplished
tasks, tasks to perform in following week, along with
issues/concerns that have developed or they foresee in the
near future. The reports will be written in APA, Times New
Roman 11-point font and be between 500-1000 words, single-
spaced. Undergraduates will have the potential to earn the
full 100 points for the course. Graduate students, in serving as
project managers and submitting weekly written progress
reports, will have the potential to earn the full 110 points
for the course.
Athena Title
Community Tourism
Prerequisite
PRTM 4700
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
FANR 3400-3400D or PRTM 3310 or FANR 4202/6202-4202D/6202D
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Critically read, evaluate, and analyze (through weekly writing) scholarly writings pertaining to social-cultural tourism aspects focused on impacts, planning, and management for tourism development. 2. Evaluate and effectively communicate critique of scholarly work through discussion-based seminars. 3. Facilitate and deliver a presentation (based on a journal article) of selected work on course topics concerning one of the following: resident-tourist interactive relationships, residents’ attitudes of tourism, demonstration and acculturation effect, authenticity and commodification, cultural and heritage tourism, sex tourism, tourism disruptions, volunteer tourism, qualitative or quantitative measurement of tourism impacts, tourism planning, or tourism management. 4. Articulate a critique of a recently-written book (i.e., book review) on the topic of community tourism. 5. Execute a community-focused research project concerning residents’ perceptions of social-cultural impacts of tourism in a Georgia destination that will inform planning and management (culminating in a written report and class visual presentation). 6. Serve as project manager (assisting in logistical planning for research project and submitting weekly progress reports), overseeing community-focused research project for undergraduate students (graduate students only).
Topical Outline
-systems approach to tourism -conceptual models pertaining to social-cultural impacts -guiding theoretical frameworks surrounding social-cultural tourism phenomena -resident-tourist interactive relationships -resident attitudes toward tourism -demonstration and acculturation effect -authenticity and commodification -cultural and heritage tourism -sex tourism -tourism disruptions -volunteer tourism -qualitative measurement -quantitative measurement -planning approaches -tools and techniques for tourism planning -management informed through proactive planning