Sustainability in Tourism, Hospitality and Events (TOUR1003)

Individual Task/s

Sustainable Island - Tourism Edition is an educational game designed to challenge your thinking about sustainability. In your Sustainable Island Reflection (Assessment Task 1) you will demonstrate your learning in relation to sustainability and stakeholder collaboration and, importantly, how this will influence the way you will manage tourism, hospitality and/or events in the future.

1500 words (for Sustainable Island - Round Two Reflection, excluding template headings and reference list)

There are three (3) components to this assessment task:

1. Week 1 - in the lecture you will be required to submit a short handwritten piece.
2. Week 2 - in your tutorial you will play the game and complete the Sustainable Island - Round One Reflection template.
3. Week 12 - in your tutorial you will play the game and complete the Sustainable Island - Round Two Reflection template.

Note: You will need to submit all three (3) components to receive a mark for this assessment task. While only the Sustainable Island - Round Two Reflection template counts towards your final grade you will need the information from 1. and 2. above to be able to complete Sustainable Island - Round Two Reflection. You will receive formative feedback, but not a mark, for your Sustainable Island - Round One Reflection.

Format:

• Font size: 11 point
• Font type: Calibri; Times New Roman; Arial
• Line spacing: 1.5 spacing

Referencing: APA7

Use of AI/MT

The assessment tasks in this course have been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or Machine Translation (MT) technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance.

A failure to reference AI/ MT use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct.

Assessment Task 2 (Site Audit) and Assessment Task 3 (Sustainability Report) are related. The insights from Assessment Task 2 will be developed further in Assessment Task 3.

To complete Assessment Task 2 and Assessment Task 3 you need to select a site that attracts tourists (ie. tourist attraction/ precinct; accommodation; event venue).

Site considerations:

• Make sure you can take photos at the site (eg. you can not take photos at a casino).
• You may find it useful to be able to visit your site multiple times throughout the semester.
• We will be discussing Brisbane's South Bank in detail as an example so you CANNOT do South Bank as your site.
• You must have your site approved by your tutor in the tutorial in Week 3.
• Your research will ONLY be based on publicly available information and your site visit. You CANNOT contact the site manager, its employees, or visitors to the site.

Assessment Task 2

Individual Task

1000 words (excluding template headings and reference list).

Throughout the semester you will learn about the potential environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of activities associated with tourism, hospitality and events (THE). For your Site Audit you are required to complete the Site Audit Template provided on Blackboard. We will work through an example in class.

To complete the Site Audit Template you are required to:

• State the name of your site;
• Provide a 200 word overview of key information about your site. This will include information such as the location; physical description; activities offered; visitor numbers.
• Identify and briefly describe the positive and negative environmental, socio-cultural and economic impacts of activities associated with THE at your site.
• Provide evidence for each impact you identify. In the majority of instances this evidence will be photographs you take at the site. Where this is not possible you can provide alternative supporting evidence (eg. publicly available annual reports).

Note: some types of impacts may be more prominent in some sites than others. For example, Minjerribah (North Stradbroke Island) may feature impacts on the natural environment; Star Casino Brisbane may feature impacts on the built environment; Suncorp Stadium may focus on economic impacts. Therefore, there may not be an equal number of impacts for each type of impact. Nevertheless, all types of impacts should be included in your Site Audit.

Format:

• Font size: 11 point
• Font type: Calibri; Times New Roman; Arial
• Line spacing: 1.5 spacing

Referencing: APA7

Use of AI/MT

The assessment tasks in this course have been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or Machine Translation (MT) technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance.

A failure to reference AI/ MT use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct.

Individual Task.

2000-2500 words (excluding title page; executive summary; table of contents; reference list; appendices - if needed).

The manager of your site (from Assessment Task 2) has commissioned you to prepare a sustainability report for the site. The purpose of the sustainability report is to analyse the current sustainability status of the site to provide recommendations for future management of the site.

Your Sustainability Report must include:

• Title page (assume the role of sustainability consultant and make this page professional and informative)
• Executive Summary (one page overview of your whole report)
• Table of Contents (use headings/ sub headings that are numbered and relevant to your site)
• Introduction (justify why taking a sustainability approach is beneficial for your site. 300-400 words)
• Current sustainability status of your site (analyse the impacts you identified in your Site Audit to provide a substantiated overview of sustainability at the site. This should include current management practices that you observed at the site. Approximately 500 words.).
• Recommendations (3-6 key prioritised recommendations that the site manager could implement to encourage sustainability. Each recommendation should be a minimum of 200 words and be supported with literature. Approximately 1200 words in total).
• Conclusion (one paragraph to sum up)
• Reference list (use APA7 referencing to reference all sources used in your report)
• Appendices (if used)

Format:

• Font size: 11 point
• Font type: Calibri; Times New Roman; Arial
• Line spacing: 1.5 spacing

Referencing: APA7

Use of AI/MT:

The assessment tasks in this course have been designed to be challenging, authentic and complex. Whilst students may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and/or Machine Translation (MT) technologies, successful completion of assessment in this course will require students to critically engage in specific contexts and tasks for which artificial intelligence will provide only limited support and guidance.

A failure to reference AI/ MT use may constitute student misconduct under the Student Code of Conduct.