SOCIOL 732

Tourism and Heritage

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for SOCIOL 732.

Description

Tourism is one of the world’s largest and fastest growing industries. This course examines tourism’s major impacts in the contemporary highly mobile world. Students will consider  issues surrounding tourism development and social justice, impacts of the  "tourist gaze", commoditised "authenticity" and "heritage", and cultural conflicts in tourism. Specific topics include development, invented traditions, the marketing of national landscapes, "other" cultures as theme parks, gender and ethnicity, photography, souvenirs and sex tourism - all within the premise of tourism as a consumer activity.

Availability 2017

Semester 2

Lecturer(s)

Coordinator(s) Dr Claudia Bell

Reading/Texts

A course reader will be provided if required.

Recommended Reading

Points

SOCIOL 732: 30 points

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Corequisites

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