Single course
Responsible Tourism Management
In this course you will deepen your understanding in responsible tourism. You will learn more about different dimensions of responsibility and their relevance to tourism development.
Content
- Different dimensions of responsibility in practise
- Social responsibility: law-issues in tourism, safety and security, stakeholders,
encounters with local community and tourists
- Environmental responsibility: Climate change and climate actions in tourism
- Tools to develop responsibility in company, destination and national level: criteria,
certificates, labels, programs
Objectives
The purpose of this course is to deepen your understanding in responsible tourism. You will learn more about different dimensions of responsibility and their relevance to tourism development. After this course you understand how responsibility can be enhanced both in company, destination and national level.
Competences
Tourism business, Sustainable development
Learning objectives
You identify different stakeholders and their roles in responsible tourism. You define climate change and can list climate actions in tourism. You are able to list the most important programs, certificates and labels concerning the development of responsible tourism. You understand the importance of safety and security in the tourism and hospitality industry. You know the basic laws within the tourism and hospitality industry.
Implementation methods
This course is implemented as a face-to-face teaching. You will also study in the Moodle learning environment. You will find the course instructions, schedules, assignments and study materials on Moodle. In contact classes, you will familiarize yourself with the topic through lectures, workshops and company visits.
You will also participate in completing applied learning tasks individually and in groups. In groups, you will reflect and share what you have learned communally with your peers.
You will participate in the first contact meeting, which will confirm your presence in the course.
Supervision
You will receive supervision in face-to-face teaching directly from the teacher and in the Moodle learning environment (including a question and answer column). You will also receive supervision from your peers.
Feedback
You will receive qualitative assessment and feedback on your group and learning tasks.
You will provide feedback on the course (final feedback) implementation.
Prerequisites
Basic understanding of tourism industry and responsible tourism
Additional information
This course is implemented as a face-to-face teaching. You will also study in the Moodle learning environment. You will find the course instructions, schedules, assignments and study materials on Moodle. In contact classes, you will familiarize yourself with the topic through lectures, workshops and company visits.
You will also participate in completing applied learning tasks individually and in groups. In groups, you will reflect and share what you have learned communally with your peers.
You will participate in the first contact meeting, which will confirm your presence in the course.
Lectures twice a week except for one online intensive week. During the intensive week, you will learn the basics of legal matters in tourism under the guidance of a visiting expert. The date of the intensive week will be announced later.
Prerequisite: Basic understanding of tourism industry and responsible tourism
The course code is MT00CI53-3002. Use the code to view the course schedule at https://lukkarit.peppi.jamk.fi.
Enrolling on open studies requires a Finnish personal identity number and strong identification.
Verify your identity in the Suomi.fi service or with HAKA credentials when you enroll. Otherwise, you will need either a valid passport or an EU ID card with a chip (according to the ICAO 9303 E-MRTD standard). In this case, please contact help.jamk.fi
Please notice that degree students in Jamk who have enrolled for attendance in are not eligible to enroll as Jamk Open UAS students (instead, enrolment in Peppi).
Read more about enrollment and study fees: https://www.jamk.fi/en/apply-to-jamk/jamk-open-university-of-applied-sc…
Further information concerning the enrollment: avoinamk@jamk.fi