Individual Essay Assessment

You are required to research and write a maximum 1100 word essay on a selected essay topic.

Instructions:

From the topics listed below select three; your first, second and third choice. Together with your tutor you will negotiate your final choice.

To develop a deeper understanding of people and places in society, these topics are designed to enable you to research an area in which you are interested and to apply some disciplinary understanding of the social sciences. You are required to use library and Internet resources to help you research ideas and theoretical and literary sources that will support your conceptual analysis.  

Topics:

1. Alexander Murphy (2004) said that "who we are is shaped in part by where we are".  Using the four key concepts in modern geography: Space, Place, Environment and Scale, explain Murphy's comment. Show how these concepts interlink.  Apply your theoretical discussion to a tourist visiting Lichtenstein.

2. A place, in practise, is made up of the concepts materiality, practices, institutions and representations.  Explain each of these concepts and how they contribute to 'Sense of Place'.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

3. Over time, urban spaces can become disused, derelict, and unattractive.  Using Butler's (1980) Tourism Area Life Cycle, explain this possible occurrence.  Explain at which stage urban renewal would take place. Discuss three main trends that drive urban renewal.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

4. That tourism and hospitality precincts will change in the future is a certainty.  The most visual change will be structural change.  Identify and explain the four concepts of structural change, linking each concept to a world-famous tourist, restaurant or hotel precinct example.

5. One of the primary roles of a tourism precinct is to attract tourists.  Getz's (1993) Tourism Business District model identifies three special roles: CBD functions, essential services and core attractions.  Briefly discuss each of these roles.  Explain how they integrate with each other.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

6. Globalisation and politics have influenced access to tourism and hospitality places. Explain the theoretical meaning of "access" and link this meaning to the influences of globalisation and politics.  Apply your theoretical discussion to a controversial tourism precinct development.

7. Planning tourism precincts should involve at least six stakeholder groups with the aim of minimising planning errors.  Identify the six stakeholder groups and explain their contribution in the planning process. Discuss two possible conflicts of interest between stakeholder groups.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

8. When destination management stakeholders consider urban renewal planning, it is important to develop the concepts of accessibility, 'sense of place' and place branding. Discuss two (2) rejuvenation strategies and show how they develop the three concepts.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

9. To enable strategic planning, tourist destinations need to understand the behaviour of tourists at the destination. One key theory to guide this understanding is the Influences of Consumer behaviour.  Briefly explain each of the influence categories.  Choose two (2) and further develop the explanation linking it to how it will impact tourism destination planning from the tourist perspective.  Apply your theoretical discussion using the Week 10 field trip research, as an example.

Choose Topic 4.

Assignment Files -

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