Global Tourism Development Trends (FutureLearn)

Global Tourism Development Trends (FutureLearn)
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This course is for anyone interested in global tourism trends. Experience in the hotel or tourism industry isn’t necessary but might be useful.
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Global Tourism Development Trends (FutureLearn)
Understanding the recent history of tourism and exploring global tourism trends including medical tourism and smart tourism. Exploring global tourism development trends. Globally tourism is one of the fastest growing industries: one out of eleven jobs is created by the travel and tourism industry (World Travel & Tourism Council, 2016).

In this course you will explore global tourism development since the end of World War II in 1945. You will learn about a wide range of subjects including: tourism development in China since 1978, China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its implications for the global tourism industry, and the sustainability of tourism development. You will also look at current tourism trends like medical tourism and smart tourism.


What topics will you cover?

- Tourism Development: Past, Present, And Future

- The Belt and Road Initiative: Building A New Pattern of International Tourism

- Tourism Development in China

- Sustainable Tourism Planning and Tourism Impacts

- Medical Tourism

- Perception of Risk and Travel Decisions

- Smart Tourism

- Regional and global case examples


What will you achieve?

By the end of the course, you'll be able to...

- Describe important aspects of international tourism growth

- Identify the role of government in tourism development

- Explore the Belt and Road Initiative and gain an in-depth understanding of it

- Report on the potential of tourism between China and other countries along the Belt and Road

- Discuss the history of tourism development in China

- Describe the domestic, inbound and outbound tourism of China

- Develop the basic knowledge of tourism planning

- Compare tourist - host community interactions and residents’ reactions toward tourism

- Explore the concept of medical tourism

- Investigate perception of risk and travel decision

- Explore smart tourism



Course Auditing
99.00 EUR
This course is for anyone interested in global tourism trends. Experience in the hotel or tourism industry isn’t necessary but might be useful.