School Of Social Sciences And PsychologyTourism in SocietyWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 101598.3
Discipline: SOCIOLOGY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Equivalent Units
700053 - Tourism in Society (UWSC)
Incompatible Units
101275 - Tourism in Contemporary Society. EH210A - Tourism Issues and Change.
About this Unit
In this unit students study tourism as a cultural and social phenomenon and place the tourism industry, tourist behaviour and tourism impacts in their socio-cultural, socio-historical, political and geographic contexts. Various relationships between contemporary society and tourism are explored. These include an examination of the links between: tourism, mobility and globalisation; tourism and social change; tourism and the desire for difference; tourism, consumerism and commodification; visual culture and tourism; tourism and developing countries; tourism and the media; tourism and geo-politics.