CO4012 Sustainable Tourism and Visitor Management Syllabus:
CO4012 Sustainable Tourism and Visitor Management Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES:
The objective is to enhance the knowledge to develop specialization in handling complex management issues.
To create awareness towards different types of visitors and their needs in finding management solution.
To understand the process of calculating carrying capacity of Heritage site.
To introduce the student to visitor management of World Heritage Site
To understand how tourism and other management issues are solved from examples around the world and India.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION
Managing Heritage Tourism: Concept and Scope – Tourism Impact and problems in India – Common impacts related to visitor use – Visitor Management – Concept of Carrying Capacity – Similarities between carrying capacity and site management planning process – Community based tourism (Or) Understand heritage tourism demand – analyzing the nature of heritage demand – visitor characteristics – visitor typology – their motivations driving to visit heritage sites.
UNIT II VISITOR MANAGEMENT
Identification of different types of visitors – Formal and informal tourists – Pilgrimage and its linkage to cultural tourism – Organization and traditional facilities for visitors – Visitor needs and expectation – Infrastructural requirements – Critical consideration for visitor management
UNIT III CARRYING CAPACITY
Visitors Data – Future projection of visitors to the site – Impact of visitors on Heritage Site – Calculating of threshold of Heritage site towards visitors to the site – Identifying Indicators – Calculating carrying capacity
UNIT IV MANAGING TOURISM AT WORLD HERITAGE SITES
World Heritage Sites in India – Problems and Prospects of Cultural/ Natural Tourism in India – Sustainable tourism Policy and strategy Development – Relationship between World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism – National Tourism Policy, 2002 – Guidelines for Tourism and Visitor Management in Protected Areas – Action plan for sustainable tourism development
UNIT V CASE STUDIES
Select Case studies from India and Abroad (or) International and National Case studies of Sustainable Tourism.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES:
Students able to
CO1 Relate and acquire knowledge about visitors and finding management solution.
CO2 Explain and understand the need for histori000000 tourism management
CO3 Apply and calculate the carrying capacity for a heritage site.
CO4 Analyze and contextualize the relationship between sustainability and visitor management
CO5 Build and work out infrastructural requirements for visitors
REFERENCES:
1. Timothy, D. J. (2021). Cultural Heritage and Tourism: An Introduction (Volume 7) (Aspects of Tourism Texts, 7) (2nd ed.). Channel View Publications.
2. Leask, A., & Yeoman, I. (1999). Heritage Visitor Attractions: An Operations Management Perspective (1st ed.). Cengage Learning EMEA.
3. The Challenge of Tourism Carrying Capacity Assessment: Theory and Practice (New Directions in Tourism Analysis) by Alexandra Mexa (28-Apr-2004) Hardcover. (2021). Ashgate Publishing Limited (28 April 2004).
4. Arthur Pedersen. (2002, November). Managing Tourism at World Heritage Sites: a Practical Manual for World Heritage Site Managers. UNESCO publication.
5. Comer, D. C. (2012). Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra. Author(s).