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Welcome to Fundamentals of Global Tourism and Hospitality. My name is Grant Hall, and I am the Online Course Facilitator and will be your primary teaching contact for this course alongside the online tutoring team. We encourage you to begin by watching the short introductory video below by Dr Chris Krolikowski and Tanya Lehmann who will be the expert voices behind the content throughout the course.
Course Introduction Video 2m 36s
The aim of this course is to enable you to examine travel, tourism and hospitality as sociocultural phenomena and as industries, in both historical and contemporary contexts. We will cover topics such as tourism and hospitality definitions and products; travel motivations and tourism experiences; the origins of travel and hospitality; modern tourism and hospitality; destinations; attractions, transportation; and the impact of tourism on the industry, including some exciting new technologies that have evolved over recent years.
Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:
CLO1. Define key terminology and correctly apply it in the context of tourism and hospitality studies.
CLO2. Explain the factors that led to the emergence of the modern tourism and hospitality industry.
CLO3. Based on different classifications of tourists, explain how their travel motivations and behaviour impact management and marketing.
CLO4. Analyse the main components of the tourism and hospitality sectors and identify factors that affect them.
CLO5. Assess the costs and benefits of tourism and hospitality.
CLO6. Demonstrate Business Enterprise Skills in the context of the Tourism, Event and Hospitality Management discipline: International Perspective (foundation level).Now, take some time to read through the information contained in the Course Information and Assessment sections so that you are familiar with the requirements, expectations, and assessments for this course. If any of this information is unclear then please contact the teaching team as soon as possible.
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Welcome to Country & Acknowledgement of CountryWe acknowledge and pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the lands on which we live and recognise that we created much of this content on the lands of the Whadjuk, Noongar and the Kaurna people.
We also acknowledge that their cultural and heritage beliefs are still as important today as in the past. We also acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the various lands on which you all work and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people participating in this course. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and celebrate the diversity of Aboriginal peoples and their ongoing cultures and connections to the lands and waters across Australia.
We recognise the importance of culture for all our children as they will be the future custodians and leaders of Australia.
We would also like to share our Welcome to Country in South Australia as an acknowledgement of the traditional owners and as the minimum sign of respect that should be shown to Australia's indigenous peoples.
We invite you to visit the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) map that serves as a visual reminder of the richness and diversity of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia. It was created in 1996 as part of the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia project and attempts to show language, social or nation groups based on published sources available up to 1994.
You are invited to learn more about UniSA's Aboriginal engagement and how we continue to learn and understand.
Throughout this program and some accompanying resources, the word Indigenous may be used respectfully and interchangeably with the terms Aboriginal, and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. All terms are used to acknowledge, describe, and honour the original inhabitants and traditional custodians of Australia and their descendants.
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