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Name of the Course Unit	Code	Year	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
TOURISM AND HOTEL MANAGEMENT (ENGLISH) PROGRAMME COURSE DESCRIPTION
SUSTAINABILITY TOURISM	THM312	3	6	3+0	3.0	6.0

General Information
Language of Instruction	English
Level of the Course Unit	Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of the Course	Compulsory
Mode of Delivery of the Course Unit	Face-to-face
Work Placement(s) Requirement for the Course Unit	Yes
Coordinator of the Course Unit	Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) SOOLMAZ AZARMI LAFMAJANI
Instructor(s) of the Course Unit	Assoc. Prof. (Ph.D.) TUĞRUL GÜNAY
Assistant(s) of the Course Unit

Prerequisites and/or co-requisities of the course unit

CATEGORY OF THE COURSE UNIT
Category of the Course Unit	Degree of Contribution (%)
Fundamental Course in the field	% 20
Course providing specialised skills to the main field	% 20
Course providing supportive skills to the main field	% 20
Course providing humanistic, communication and management skills	% 20
Course providing transferable skills	% 20

Objectives and Contents
Objectives of the Course Unit	The promotion of sustainable development opens up the debates surrounding our relationship with the natural world, what constitutes social progress, and the character of development in the present and into the future. The main aim of this course is to provide students with an introductory yet comprehensive overview of the concept of sustainable development and its application with emphasis on the methods and processes to achieve sustainability goals. After the understanding of general concept, it will be discussed in the context of TOURISM sector/industry. The main aim is to provide the students of tourism with a practical alternative to develop, plan, and mange tourism sector.
Contents of the Course Unit	Sustainable tourism has become a newly developed tourism practice around the world. Students not only will learn about the concept and its application, they will also learn and acquire practical knowledge how to establish a viable tourism business that is sustainable and profitable. While an understanding and familiarity with the ‘sustainability’ is established, students will be able to reorient themselves based on their new understanding which will allow them to interact and relate to the environment, resources, communities with a responsible attitude.
Contribution of the Course Intending to Provide the Professional Education	This course covers the growth and progress of the tourism and hospitality industry.

No	Key Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit On successful completion of this course unit, students/learners will or will be able to:
1	with successful completion of this course, students will have developed knowledge and understanding of: • Sustainable land use systems, • Nature and meaning of the sustainability, • Mechanisms for sustainability? • Island states and their socio-economic characters
2	Community involvement as principle not rhetoric. • Impact assessment and impact prevention With successful completion of this course, students will have developed their skills in: • Designing policies and plans to achieve sustainability. • Methods and decisions how to utilize resources.
3	• Compromises to be made in order to harmonize growth and development with sustainability • Demonstrate sensitivity to maintain and protect natural and manmade resource areas
4	• Demonstrate ethical behavior in personal and professional activities. With successful completion of this course, students will have developed their appreciation of and respect for values and attitudes regarding the issues of:
5	• Resource protection and use. • Resourced management and planning. • Sustainability • Limit to growth and development  Shift to renewable resources of energy
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Learning Activities & Teaching Methods of the Course Unit
Learning Activities & Teaching Methods of the Course Unit	Lecture & In-Class Activities	Land Surveying
	Group Work	Laboratory
	Reading	Assignment (Homework)
	Project Work	Seminar
	Internship	Technical Visit
	Web Based Learning	Implementation/Application/Practice
	Practice at a workplace	Occupational Activity
	Social Activity	Thesis Work
	Field Study	Report Writing

Weekly Course Contents and Study Materials for Preliminary & Further Study

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Preparatory & Further Activities

Introduction and Course Overview

Sustainable Development and Tourism
Issues in Sustainable Development
Mass Tourism and Alternative Tourism
Indicators and
Criteria for
Sustainable Tourism
Stakeholder Participation in Sustainable Tourism Development
Sustainable Tourism and Local Livelihoods
Consuming Nature: Tourism and ethics
Climate Change, Natural Disasters and Tourism
Visitor management strategies for destinations.
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FINAL EXAMINATION WEEKS

THM312

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SOURCE MATERIALS & RECOMMENDED READING
1-Martin Mowforth, Ian Munt (2015), Tourism and Sustainability: Development, globalisation and new tourism in the Third World, Routledge; 4 edition.

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CONTRIBUTION OF THE COURSE UNIT TO THE PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES
KNOWLEDGE
Theoretical
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	The person has a basic knowledge of theory, concepts and principle in the sector.				X
2	The person has a basic knowledge legal arrangement, standarts and application of proffesional.				X
3	The person has a basic knowledge of internal and external environmental factors in sector.				X
4	The person has a basic knowledge process of serving and application in sector.				X
5	The person has a basic knowledge of theory, concepts and principle in the sector.						X
6	The person has a basic knowledge legal arrangement, standarts and application of proffesional.				X
7	The person has a basic knowledge of internal and external environmental factors in sector.					X
8	The person has a basic knowledge process of serving and application in sector.				X
SKILLS
Cognitive
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	The person uses acquired knowledge in his / her proffesional life.					X
2	The person follows the changes in the company, analyzes, predicts and decides.					X
3	In the line of needs and wants of consumers, the person applies the service process, satisfying of consumers.				X
4	the person eliminates the problems and makes solutions, and also presents.					X
5	The person try to learn, use and maintain physical environment, materials and technologies.				X
6	the person makes self-assessments and draws a cocnlusion from the application.				X
7	the person eliminates the problems and makes solutions, and also presents.				X
8	The person follows the changes in the company, analyzes, predicts and decides.				X
Practical
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	To make the risk analysis			X
2	To have information about workers` rights				X
3	To have the required ethical rules of the profession				X
4	Tourism and to have information about the environmental relationships				X
PERSONAL & OCCUPATIONAL COMPETENCES IN TERMS OF EACH OF THE FOLLOWING GROUPS
Autonomy & Responsibility
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	the person develops who works with him / her knowledge, evaluates.				X
2	The person takes the responsibility and works as a group member.					X
3	The person works independently while makes a process.					X
4	The person uses acquired knowledge in his / her proffesional life.				X
Learning to Learn
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	Students can learn by themselves, they can manage the time, and assess yourself.				X
2	Students follow the recent development in the sector.				X
3	They can update and develop the information, skills and competence.				X
4	Basic level of knowledge and skills acquired in the field to evaluate with a critical approach, to determine their learning needs and to meet.					X
Communication & Social
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	Students can use computer software program at least European Computer Usage Licence in basic level and also use communication technologies.					X
2	Students can have a relationship between people and cultures					X
3	Students can learn at least one foreign language in accordiance with Common European Framework in A2 Level and they can have a relationship with this language.						X
4	Students prepare reports, they present these knowledge, argument, and analyzes to experts and people who are out of the sector.					X
Occupational and/or Vocational
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	LEVEL OF CONTRIBUTION*
No	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES	0	1	2	3	4	5
1	Students can apply their professions according to law and occupation.				X
2	Students should be sensitive the difeerences between people and cultures, they show respect them.				X
3	Students take human health social and natural environment into consideration during the professional process.				X
4	Students depend on moral values in the sector.				X

*Level of Contribution (0-5): Empty-Null (0), 1- Very Low, 2- Low, 3- Medium, 4- High, 5- Very High

No	Key Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit On successful completion of this course unit, students/learners will or will be able to:	PROGRAMME LEARNING OUTCOMES
1	with successful completion of this course, students will have developed knowledge and understanding of: • Sustainable land use systems, • Nature and meaning of the sustainability, • Mechanisms for sustainability? • Island states and their socio-economic characters	1 (4), 2 (3), 3 (3), 4 (3), 5 (3), 6 (3), 7 (3), 8 (3), 9 (3), 10 (3), 11 (4), 12 (3), 13 (3), 14 (4), 15 (3), 16 (3), 17 (3), 18 (3), 19 (4), 20 (3), 21 (3), 22 (4), 23 (3), 24 (4), 25 (3), 26 (3), 27 (4), 28 (4), 29 (3), 30 (4), 31 (4), 32 (3), 33 (4), 34 (3), 35 (4), 36 (4)
2	Community involvement as principle not rhetoric. • Impact assessment and impact prevention With successful completion of this course, students will have developed their skills in: • Designing policies and plans to achieve sustainability. • Methods and decisions how to utilize resources.	1 (4), 2 (4), 3 (4), 4 (4), 5 (4), 6 (3), 7 (4), 8 (3), 9 (3), 10 (4), 11 (3), 12 (3), 13 (3), 14 (4), 15 (3), 16 (3), 17 (3), 18 (4), 19 (4), 20 (3), 21 (3), 22 (4), 23 (3), 24 (4), 25 (3), 26 (4), 27 (4), 28 (4), 29 (4), 30 (4), 31 (4), 32 (4), 33 (4), 34 (3), 35 (4), 36 (4)
3	• Compromises to be made in order to harmonize growth and development with sustainability • Demonstrate sensitivity to maintain and protect natural and manmade resource areas	1 (4), 2 (3), 3 (4), 4 (4), 5 (4), 6 (4), 7 (4), 8 (4), 9 (3), 10 (4), 11 (4), 12 (4), 13 (3), 14 (4), 15 (3), 16 (3), 17 (3), 18 (4), 19 (4), 20 (4), 21 (3), 22 (4), 23 (3), 24 (4), 25 (4), 26 (4), 27 (4), 28 (4), 29 (4), 30 (4), 31 (4), 32 (4), 33 (4), 34 (3), 35 (4), 36 (4)
4	• Demonstrate ethical behavior in personal and professional activities. With successful completion of this course, students will have developed their appreciation of and respect for values and attitudes regarding the issues of:	1 (4), 2 (4), 3 (4), 4 (3), 5 (4), 6 (3), 7 (4), 8 (4), 9 (3), 10 (4), 11 (4), 12 (4), 13 (3), 14 (4), 15 (4), 16 (3), 17 (4), 18 (4), 19 (4), 20 (3), 21 (3), 22 (4), 23 (3), 24 (4), 25 (4), 26 (4), 27 (4), 28 (5), 29 (4), 30 (4), 31 (3), 32 (4), 33 (4), 34 (3), 35 (4), 36 (4)
5	• Resource protection and use. • Resourced management and planning. • Sustainability • Limit to growth and development  Shift to renewable resources of energy	1 (4), 2 (3), 3 (4), 4 (3), 5 (4), 6 (3), 7 (3), 8 (4), 9 (4), 10 (4), 11 (4), 12 (4), 13 (3), 14 (4), 15 (4), 16 (3), 17 (3), 18 (4), 19 (4), 20 (4), 21 (3), 22 (4), 23 (3), 24 (4), 25 (4), 26 (4), 27 (4), 28 (4), 29 (4), 30 (4), 31 (3), 32 (4), 33 (4), 34 (3), 35 (4), 36 (4)

Assessment
Assessment & Grading of In-Term Activities	Number of Activities	Degree of Contribution (%)
Mid-Term Exam	1	% 40
Computer Based Presentation	0	-
Short Exam	0	-
Presentation of Report	0	-
Homework Assessment	0	-
Oral Exam	0	-
Presentation of Thesis	0	-
Presentation of Document	0	-
Expert Assessment	0	-
Board Exam	0	-
Practice Exam	0	-
Year-End Final Exam	1	% 60
Internship Exam	0	-
TOTAL	2	%100

Contribution of In-Term Assessments to Overall Grade	2	%50
Contribution of Final Exam to Overall Grade	1	%50
TOTAL	3	%100

WORKLOAD & ECTS CREDITS OF THE COURSE UNIT
Workload for Learning & Teaching Activities
Type of the Learning Activites	Learning Activities (# of week)	Duration (hours, h)	Workload (h)
Lecture & In-Class Activities	14	3	42
Preliminary & Further Study	14	3	42
Land Surveying	0	0	0
Group Work	0	0	0
Laboratory	0	0	0
Reading	0	0	0
Assignment (Homework)	0	0	0
Project Work	3	10	30
Seminar	0	0	0
Internship	0	0	0
Technical Visit	0	0	0
Web Based Learning	0	0	0
Implementation/Application/Practice	0	0	0
Practice at a workplace	0	0	0
Occupational Activity	0	0	0
Social Activity	0	0	0
Thesis Work	0	0	0
Field Study	0	0	0
Report Writing	0	0	0
Total Workload for Learning & Teaching Activities	-	-	114
Workload for Assessment Activities
Type of the Assessment Activites	# of Assessment Activities	Duration (hours, h)	Workload (h)
Final Exam	1	2	2
Preparation for the Final Exam	3	5	15
Mid-Term Exam	1	1	1
Preparation for the Mid-Term Exam	4	4	16
Short Exam	0	0	0
Preparation for the Short Exam	0	0	0
Total Workload for Assessment Activities	-	-	34

Total Workload of the Course Unit	-	-	148
Workload (h) / 25.5			5.8
ECTS Credits allocated for the Course Unit			6.0