School Of Social SciencesSocial Impacts of TourismWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300346.1
Discipline: TOURISM
Student Contribution Band: 3
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
About this Unit
This unit aims to explore positive and negative social impacts of tourism, techniques for assessment and the importance in community development of planning for social impacts in a range of developed/ developing and urban/ non-urban settings. The unit’s objectives are to provide an understanding of the nature of social impacts associated with tourism planning and development; the paradoxes generated by and oppositional forces at play created by social impacts of tourism in a community and methods and techniques of social impact assessment and their use in tourism contexts.