Tourism Planning and Sustainable Development

This course is an attempt to prevent disorderly tourism development, in order to successfully overcome the daily changes that occur in turbulent surrounding, planning of sustainable tourism development occurs as the only way to do it successfully. So, sustainable development refers to the use without exploitation of natural, cultural and all other tourist resources from the current generation, it means to preserve them for future use by future generations. Since the development of tourism in a certain area largely dependent on natural and anthropogenic attractiveness which are located in the surrounding, the practicing of sustainable development gets more and more important.

Week 1Introductory VideoM01- Levels, type and process of planning
Week 2M02- Conceptualization, Background Analysis, In-depth Research and Analysis PhaseM03- Tourism project feasibility study
Week 3M04- Synthesis phase and preparation of statements in Destination planningM05-Policy making bodies in IndiaM06-Involvement of Local community in tourism Development
Week 4M07-An outline of L K Jha Committee, 1963M08-National Tourism Policy, 1982M09-Destination Development and its components
Week 5M10- National action Plan on Tourism, 1992M11- The latest policy document on tourismM12- Tourism Planning at International, National and State Level
Week 6M13- Tourism and Five year plans in IndiaM14- Objective Setting, Goal setting, Strategy setting and Plan writingM15- Techniques of Plan Formulation
Week 7M16- Planning for tourism DestinationsM17- Tourism planning, significance, Constraints, Grey areas and ScopeM18- Destination Life Cycle Concept
Week 8M19- Sources of Funding, Incentives & Concessions extended for tourism ProjectsM20- Economics of TourismM21- Positive and negative impacts of tourism (environmental, economic, socio-cultural).
Week 9M22- Concept of mass tourismM23- Emergence of alternative tourism, conventional versus alternative tourismM24- Mass vis-à-vis selective tourism.
Week 10M25- Synergism between tourism promotion & nature conservationM26- Environment and tourism – areas of conflict, symbiosis and synergyM27- Tourism in various bio-geographic realms and specific situation of environmental concern.
Week 11M28- United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) Agenda 21M29- Sustainable Development: Historical BackgroundM30- The Nature and Scope of Sustainable Tourism
Week 12M31- Towards a New Approach to Sustainable Tourism ManagementM32- Global Warming and Sustainable DevelopmentM33- Environmental Dimension
Week 13M34- Economic DimensionM35- Social DimensionM36- Sustainable Tourism Development-Guiding Principles for Planning and Management
Week 14M37- Empowering Community through tourismM38- Community based tourismM39- Ecotourism
Week 15M40- Future of Sustainable Tourism
(M= Module)