Course Code:BRL390
Level: Bachelor
Prerequisites: None
Lecturer: Øystein Jensen
Duration: One semester
Term: Autumn
ECTS credits: 10
Language: English
Objectives:
The course purposes to give an insight into main challenges of ecotourism and of eco managing.
Contents:
The course offers an overview over impacts of tourism on the natural environment and local cultures and describes some of the tools used in managing this problem. Examples and cases will be an important elements of the course.
Examples of important topics in the course:
- concepts and main principles of ecotourism
- impacts, conflicts between stakeholders linked to tourism
- cultural conflicts in global tourism
- strategies and tools in eco-tourism and sustainable tourism (such as visitor planning, interpretations and information, tour guiding, management planning for natural areas/national parks)
- impacts of globailization of tourism and tourism industry
- the influences of environmental organisations on tourism industry behaviour
Assessment:
Group work with written assignment (2/3)
Final exam 3 hours (1/3)
Compulsory work:
Group work with written assignment (counts for 2/3) and a final written individual school examination of three hours (counts for 1/3). (Presentations of the results of the group assignments in the class will be considered). Students must pass both of the two examinations. Additionally students (in groups) should work out a short case description during the first part of the course and this must be accepted and then presented in the class.
Method of work:
Beside lectures the students are ask to work with, discuss and present relevant cases in groups and in plenum. Part of the program will be a in seminar form.
Literature:
David Weaver, Ecotourism, John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, last edition
Øystein Jensen (ed.): Compendium in BRL390 Ecotourism
Additional handouts.
Reservations about adjustments of the syllabus
