About Tourism developemnt policy and planning
This course focuses on tourism planning as a process and set of techniques for sustainable tourism development. It examines the physical environment of tourism planning, and the social, cultural and political realities of tourism planning and policy making. The emphasis of the course is on strategic regional and community-based tourism planning. In addition the course aims to develop an understanding of tourism policy-making processes, and to gain skills in the evaluation of tourism plans and policies. The course also broadens the coverage of planning and development to include tourism policy as well. Further more attention will be paid to the reasons of tourism planning, the purpose of tourism and its barriers, the governmental frameworks at different levels, roles of global, multi-national, national, state, provincial, regional, and local tourism organizations.