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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS TUR 1015 INTRODUCTION TO TOURISM COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Tourism Management

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR METIN KOZAK

Offered to

Tourism Management

Course Objective

This course aims to enable students to learning the basic concepts of tourism and creating infrastructure for tourism-related courses.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learn the concepts of the tourism 2   Recognize the Tourism Enterprises 3   Learn the importance of the concept of tourists and tourism 4   Explaining the relationship between Tourism and economic Factors

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 An overview of tourism 2 Structure of tourism 3 Development of tourism industry 4 Development of tourism education 5 Types of touirsm 6 The tourism business 7 Mid-Term Exam 8 Mid-Term Exam 9 Tourism supply and demand 10 Economic impacts of tourism 11 Social impacts of tourism 12 Physical impacts of tourism 13 Tourism and technology 14 Trends in the future 15 Final Exam 16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Öcal Usta, Genel Turizm, Anadolu Maatbacılık, 2001, Izmir. Nazmi Kozak, Meryem Kozak ve Metin Kozak. Genel Turizm, Detay Yayınları, 2017, Ankara. Cooper, C., Fletcher, J., Fyall, A., Gilbert, D. And Wanhill, S., 2006. Tourism Principles and Practice. Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, London.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 2 FIN FINAL EXAM 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE*0.40+FIN * 0.60 4 RST RESIT 5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE*0.40+RST * 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 3 36 Preparation for final exam 1 4 4 Preparation for midterm exam 1 4 4 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48 In-class practices 12 4 48 Midterm 1 2 2 Final 1 2 2 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 144

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 LO.1 5 LO.2 5 LO.3 5 LO.4 5