Brief Course Description
1. Course Title:
Environmental impact of Tourism
2. Language of Instruction:
Tiếng Việt
3. Course Code:
TOU515034
4. Credits:
3
5. Course Objectives:
The course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the environmental effects of tourism activities, encompassing both negative and positive impacts. Students will be trained to implement strategies aimed at minimizing these effects and promoting the development of sustainable tourism practices.
6. Brief Description of Course Content:
The module focuses on analyzing the impact of tourism on the environment, including its positive and negative sides, since the local to global level. The course provides a historical overview of tourism growth. This matter discusses how the tourism industry markets physical and cultural environments, to create tourism products for sale in the consumer market. In this process, there have certainly been consequences from tourism growth in terms of the environment and the use of the described environmental management and planning techniques. The ethical interactions between tourism and the environment are also considered. Module knowledge opens with issues of the natural, economic, socio-cultural and political environment and their impact on the local, regional, national and international levels.