With the UK and other governments around the world declaring a climate emergency back in 2019, tourism organisations are diversifying their actions to create sustainable growth within their industry. As such, environmental and regenerative issues will feature heavily within future practices.

 

This course will enable you to better understand how to protect and exploit fragile socio-economic resources. You’ll examine international best practice and learn how to shape new sustainable futures. You'll cover key issues such as ecotourism, challenges to implementing sustainable practices in tourism, and slow tourism with a focus on rural, wellbeing and wellness travel.

 

The sustainability agenda and change management will also be explored, and the course will develop your theoretical knowledge of models and concepts applicable to real world scenarios.

 

The main teaching and learning methods employed on the MSc Sustainable Tourism course are a combination of lectures, online lectures, seminars, workshops, group work, fieldwork, laboratory-based work, library-based work, case studies, and most critically, independent study.

 

This course will incorporate extensive use of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). Module guides, lecture presentations, guidance notes, glossaries, discussion boards, and other related materials will be available on the VLE.

 

Your assignments will be submitted online and feedback is normally provided electronically.