Seasonality and tourism planning (5 cr)
Code: AV00DW61-3002
General information
Timing
18.10.2021 - 12.12.2021
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5 op
Virtual portion
5 op
RDI portion
2 op
Mode of delivery
Distance learning
Unit
Open UAS and Continuing Education
Campus
Ecampus
Teaching languages
- English
Degree programmes
- Open University of Applied Sciences
Teachers
- Tommi Pantzar
Teacher in charge
Tommi Pantzar
Groups
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AVKKDIPLTOURISM21KAvoin AMK, LT ja MRNY, tourism and business management
Objective
What kind of issues and models are there in tourism planning and development? How to cope with different kinds of private and public sector processes in regional tourism planning and development? How to utilize seasonality, nature and culture as pulling factors in the product development in a sustainable way? How are the company level and regional level targets related to each other?
Materials
The course material will be published in OpenLearn platform. You will get it at the beginning of the course.
Teaching methods
This course is organized as a online course. Content of the course:
What kind of issues and models are there in tourism planning and development? How to cope with different kinds of private and public sector processes in regional tourism planning and development? How to utilize seasonality, nature and culture as pulling factors in the product development in a sustainable way? How are the company level and regional level targets related to each other?
Exam schedules
You can adjust this course progress to your own timetables. After comleting previous part you will be able to continue to next part.
Each part has it's own deadline, but you may move forward faster.
Student workload
This course is 5 ECTS points, which means 5 x 27 hours of student work.
Workload:
• Recorded online lectures, literature and other materials: about 45 h
• Assignments: one essay and an online exam: 30h
• Case (Project work) and commenting other projects: about 60h
Content scheduling
Part 1: Orientation to Seasonality in tourism planning. Online lectures and assignment #1.
Part 2: Seasonality and sustainability in tourism, regional level: Online lectures and assignment #2 (exam).
Part 3: Company level and tourism plannin: Independent project work with some company, assignment #3A and #3B.
Evaluation scale
1-5
Assessment methods and criteria
You are able to understand different viewpoints about principles of developing tourism and travel.
You are able to learn the factors which are having an effect on planning in different regional levels.
You are able to take advantage of the seasons and other regional strength in planning the tourism supply.
You are able to to link company objectives of planning and development to the regional ones.