Contemporary Topics Shaping Tourism – A Global Perspective

This course will enhance students’ understanding of global issues as they relate to tourism through a theme-based lens. These contemporary issues will provide students with a greater awareness, understanding, and appreciation of how transformative and impactful these global forces can be to tourism. Elements of the environment, economy, society, as well as noteworthy aspects of tourism governance and technology will be closely examined in this course, specifically in the context of their impacts to tourist destinations, its stakeholders, and tourists.