Tourism in the 21st Century

Catalog description

The course explores the role tourism plays in the national and global economies. Students will study the economic impact of current and projected tourism trends, as well as ways natural disasters and societal occurrences influence tourism. Students will be able to identify economic reactions to specific types of influential events affecting tourism, the projected direction of tourism, different means of promoting tourism through destination management organizations, and convention visitor bureaus, and ways geographic location and economies affect travel and tourism.