Course
| code | TM335 |
| credit_hours | 3 |
| title | Tourism Planning and Environment |
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| prequisites | TM233 |
| credit hours | 3 |
| Description/Outcomes | This course provides a background for tourism planning and presents the approach to tourism planning. This course tackles the regional and national planning level, especially the planning process and general surveys, tourist attractions and activities, tourist markets, facilities, services, and infrastructure, planning analysis and synthesis and tourism policy and plan formulation. This course provides a framework community planning level especially for planning tourist resorts, planning urban and other forms of tourism, planning tourist attractions and the development and design standards. This course also considers the environmental and socio-economic aspects of tourism. It presents the institutional elements and plan implementation. It tackles planning the institutional elements of tourism and tourism plan implementation. |
| arabic Description/Outcomes | |
| objectives | Introduce a back ground and approaches to tourism planning.
Understand the planning process, its levels and stages.
Know the planning for various types and components of tourism.
Distinguish between strategic and operational planning.
Differentiate between policy and planning
Implement the plan. |
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| objective set | bullets |
| content set | combined |
Course Content
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Description |
| 1 |
Background for Tourism Planning
Historical Development of Tourism
Contemporary Tourism Trends
Evolution of Tourism Planning
The Tourist and the Tourism System
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| 2 |
Tourism Markets, Facilities, Services of Infrastructure
Tourist Market Survey
Survey of Tourist Facilities and Services
Survey of Transportation and other Infrastructures
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| 3 |
Approach to Tourism Planning
General Concepts of Planning
Tourism Planning Concepts
Levels and types of Tourism Planning
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| 4 |
Planning Analysis and Synthesis
General Analysis Approach
Market Analysis
Determining Tourist Facility and Infrastructure
Needs
Integrated Analysis and Synthesis
Establishing Carrying Capacity
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| 5 |
Various Planning Phases
Strategic Planning Phases
Strategic versus Operational Planning
National versus Regional Planning
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| 6 |
Tourism Policy and Plan Formulation
Formulating Tourism Policy
Techniques of Plan Formulation
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| 7 |
The Planning Process and General Survey
National and Regional Tourism Planning Process
General Survey of the area
Characteristics
Survey of Institutional Elements
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| 8 |
Community Level of Tourism Planning
Planning of Tourist Resorts
Planning Urban and other forms of Tourism
Planning Tourist Attractions
Development and Design Standards
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| 9 |
Tourist Attractions and Activities
Approach to Survey and Evaluation
Other attractions considerations
Survey and Evaluation Techniques
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| 10 |
Environmental and Socioeconomic Considerations
Environmental Impacts
Socioeconomic Impact
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