Tourism Operations

By DR. N. NAGARAJA | University of Mysore, Manasagangothri

Learners enrolled: 435

This course subject emphasises on Tourism planning, policy making and their implementation. More so, this course subject facilitates the students to know about the environmental protection done through the concept of Eco tourism and sustainable development. Students will also understand the role of tourism in employment creation and socio-economic development. Students will also be benefited by getting the information on typology and various forms of tourism, tourism systems, elements of tourism, tourism transport and the role of various tourism organisations and authorities.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Management Studies
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	15 Jul 2019
End Date :	30 Sep 2019
Enrollment Ends :	10 Sep 2019
Exam Date :	10 Nov 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week – 5 | 17. Introduction to planning | 18. Tourism planning | 19. Types of Tourism planning

Week – 8 | 28. Eco-Tourism Development | 29. Tourism and Sustainable Development | 30. Tourism & Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA |

Week – 9 | 31. Business of Ecotourism | 32. HRD in Tourism Industry | 33. Nature of Tourism Development |

Week – 10 | 34. Implementations of Tourism Development | 35.Tourism and Socio-economic Development | 36.Tourism Development in India |

Week – 11 | 37. Global concerns | 38. Tourism Destination Carrying capacity (Human Populations) | 39. New Tourism schemes and emerging tourism trends in India | 40.Problems and solutions for core components of tourism |

Books and references

Reading material	Author & Year	Type of publication (article/notes)	Content Abstract	Number of pages
Tourism principles and practices	Sampad Kumar Swain Jitendra Mohan Mishra 2012	Text Book	Hospitality services	748
Hotel Management and Operations	Denney G. Rutherford (Ed) 1994	Text Book	Hospitality services	480
Tourism: operations and Management	Sunetra Roday (2009)	Text Book	Various types of tourism, tourism accommodation	480
Front Office Mgmt & Operations	Sudhir Andrews (2007)	Text Book	Front office operations	320
Food and Beverage Services	R. Singaravelavan (2012)	Text Book	Food and beverage service department	768
Text book of hotel housekeeping	Sudhir Andrews (2013)	Handbook	Relevant aspects of sustainable tourism management and development	478
Food hygiene and sanitation	Roday 2011	Text book	Food poisoning Micro organisms Contamination Food laws and regulations	425

Instructor bio

Dr. Nagaraja, Course coordinator, serving as Professor, in the Department of Studies in Commerce and Tourism University of Mysore, Mysore. 12 Researchers have successfully completed Ph.D., Degree under his guidance of Dr. N.Nagaraja and at present eight researchers are working for their Ph.D., degree. 15 students have successfully completed M.Phil, degree under his guidance in various areas related to Commerce and Management and Tourism.

Prof. Nagaraja visited various Universities in India and abroad especially Gulf countries like United Arab Emirates, Sultanate of Oman, Kingdom of Bahrain, Iran etc., During November, 2012, he chaired a technical session of Banking and Finance in a conference held in the United States of America. This Conference was organized by the World Business Research Institute. He has subject expert for the subject Tourism e-content development under NME-ICT project of CEC-UGC, and MOOCs through the Educational Multimedia Research Centre, University of Mysore, Mysuru.

Course certificate

30% for in course Assessment & 70% of end-term Proctored exam. The Certificates will be available after Qualifying in the end-term online Proctored exam.

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