In the first unit of this course, you will begin to explore what it means to travel like a geographer. To do so, you will practice utilizing a set of tools called the Inquiry Method and the Geographic Thinking Concepts. You will also begin to analyse tourism issues from the viewpoint of a variety of stakeholders.
In addition, you will look at some basic concepts of travel and tourism, including the types of destinations, types of tourism, modes of transportation, factors that influence your travel decision making, and items and resources people need when they travel.
As you move into the second unit of the course, you will consider the impact of tourism on different places around the world by looking at large-scale events, the different methods of protecting sites, and the impact of tourism on the lives and culture of the locals living in tourist areas.
In this unit, you will look at a few different realms of tourism, beginning with the tourism opportunities that exist in your own home town. You will also look at how technology has changed the way people plan and travel, and will research and predict what travel will look like in the future.
In this unit, you will look at the different ways that tourism can be impacted by various environmental changes (natural disasters, pollution and environmental degradation), as well as ways in which tourism is connected to different Indigenous groups around the world. You will use knowledge gained throughout the course to look at a case study from a number of different stakeholder perspectives in order to look at the complexity of tourism issues.
This final culminating activity asks you to do two things: reflect on your learning in the course; and apply what you have learned to the question about which has the greater influence on us: our nature (how we were born) or nurture (our environment and our experiences).
