Assessment 1
Annotated bibilography
ESSENTIAL - make sure you identify your DESTINATION at the beginning of your Assignment as a note to your marker, so they know what/where you are referring to in your relevance statements.
IMPORTANT - your destination can NOT be a country, or even a large region in a country.
It must be a specific place, location, city, town, national park etc within a region within a country.
I prefer Brisbane, but i don't know can you research Brisbane some information for annotated bibliography. thank you!
Description
This assignment is designed to help you prepare and find relevant articles for writing the final assessment in this unit (Assessment 3), and will further your academic literature research skills.
Task
You are required to find 4 academic references and complete an annotated bibliography that relates to the relevant theoretical concepts discussed in Assessment 2.
Assessment 2
Instructions
1. Identify a tourist destination region (TDR) that you are familiar with or have recently visited. This selected TDR will be used as a basis for you to compare and contrast relevant theories introduced in the unit to practical aspects of the TDR.
2. Your essay should commence with an introduction that identifies the TDR and the theoretical concepts that you are going to use, compare or contrast with regard to how they relate to the practical aspects of the TDR.
3. The body of your then needs to be written around an argument that considers and critically
discusses your selected TDR in relation to these theories and according to the following criteria:
- provide an overview of how tourism has developed in your TDR (ensure you link your discussion to theories introduced in Topic 5 - Places in tourist itineraries)
- identify and explain what factors make the TDR attractive to visitors (ensure you relate your discussion to theories introduced in Topic 4 - People as tourists and Topic 8 - Tourist attractions). Your discussion should identify and explain the main visitor markets that visit the TDR (support your discussion with relevant visitation statistics)
- identify and explain the role of a specifc tourism or hospitality industry in your TDR - for example, conferences, events, tour operations, accommodation, restaurants (refer to Topic 9 - Tourism industries). Note: You are required to select an industry sector relevant to your degree program, for example, Conventions and Events, or International Tourism & Hospitality Management, or other if applicable
- explain if principles of sustainable tourism are evident within your TDR (ensure you relate your discussion to theories introduced in Topic 6
- Tourism environments and Topic 7 - Sustainable tourism)
- conclude your essay with an overview of the main findings of the critical review of the TDR you have selected to analyse.
Briefly summarise and critically evaluate the relevance of four (4) references, that is 4 sources of academic literature (academic books or journal articles) that are relevant to the theories you may discuss for the essay question in Assessment 3 (see instructions for Assignment 3 below). Note: Your Weaver and Lawton text and Readings should not be used as academic sources for this assessment (despite being essential references for use in Assessement 3).
Your annotated bibliography should be presented as follows (providing approximately 250 words for each annotation):
-provide a heading for each annotation that consists of the full bibliographic reference of the literature source using the Harvard referencing system (arrange the annotations in alphabetical order according to the reference)
-provide an overview or brief description of the contents of each source and a critical analysis of each source (strengths and weaknesses of the text)
-provide a statement of the relevance or usefulness of each source in relation to the essay question in Assessment 3.