HOST 156 - Travel Geography

5 Credits

This course offers students an introduction to world travel destinations from the perspective of travelers, travel agents and counselors, and destination marketing and management professionals. Topics include travel planning, sales & marketing, travel destination planning, unique cultural and societal attributes, visitor activities, attractions, and use of the Internet for research.

Fees

Quarters Typically Offered
Fall Day, Online
Designed to Serve Any student interested in a global perspective to travel as an experience and industry.
Active Date 20240322T08:36:11

Grading Basis Decimal Grade
Class Limit 28
Contact Hours: Lecture 55
Total Contact Hours 55
Degree Distributions:
ProfTech Course Yes
Restricted Elective Yes
PLA Eligible Yes

Course Outline

Understand social and cultural customs and traditions
Appreciate the relationship between diversity and culturally taboo issues
Comprehend the relationship between two disciplines: Tourism and Geography
Leverage understandings of geography into unique travel destination planning (i.e travel agent skills)
Apply understandings of travel and geography to park and natural area settings
Understand tourism as an economic driver

Student Learning Outcomes
Perform effectively in situations whereby societal norms are different from their own.

Identify selling points for destination marketers and management organizations.

Formulate on-site tourist activities at destinations.

Accurately interpret travel itineraries from industry-standard codes.

Classify components of tourism infrastructure.

Interpret world health information from industry standard locations for tourist market segments.

Identify major destinations within spatial geography contexts on maps.