Unit of Study HOTL2001 Special Interest Tourism (2025)

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Unit Snapshot

Unit type

UG Coursework Unit
Credit points

12
Faculty & College

Educational Partnerships Board
Placement

No

Unit description

Introduces students to special interest tourism as a unique form within the more traditional forms of tourism and leisure. Students critically examine the social, commercial and regulatory drivers and their impacts on key stakeholders as both drivers and inhibitors of special interest tourism.

Unit content

Introduction to unit: Defining special interest and niche tourism
The emergence of special interest tourism: changing patterns of tourist consumption
The gourmet traveller: Food and wine tourism
Cure on tour: Health, wellness and medical tourism
The attraction of revulsion: Dark tourism
A journey of self-discovery: Genealogy tourism

Availabilities

Location	Domestic	International
Brisbane - The Hotel School	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4
Melbourne - The Hotel School	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4
Sydney - The Hotel School	Summer Term Term4	Summer Term Term4

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

demonstrate knowledge of the elements of special interest tourism as a subset of the larger tourism industry.

critically analyse a special interest tourism activity and its impacts on key stakeholders

demonstrate a capability to design and plan a special interest tourism activity that meets the competing needs of key stakeholders

demonstrate the knowledge and skills to reflect upon the challenges confronting the special interest tourism sector and its impact on its stakeholders and how you as an industry professional respond to that.

Teaching and assessment

Teaching method

Tutorial 3 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Essay	40%
Presentation	30%
Quiz	30%

Teaching method

Tutorial 3 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Essay	40%
Presentation	30%
Quiz	30%

Teaching method

Tutorial 3 hours (Weekly)

Assessment
Essay	40%
Presentation	30%
Quiz	30%

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