Course Code: CULT 2200
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course examines the current landscape of tourism through a critical lens by asking how tourism can be a sustainable practice given the current global impacts of climate change and other forms of environmental stress caused by human activity. Tourism can have significant environmental and economic impact as vast numbers of people travel to different destinations and interact with cultures and peoples that host tourists as visitors. And yet those who engage in tourism - whether as travelers or those in tourism related industries - must be responsible for its impacts on those host cultures. This course looks at how tourism can be a force for good, advancing discovery and learning, and protecting our environment. It also explores various approaches to sustainable tourism that must respond to tourism's role in climate change, water shortages, the impact of overtourism on biodiversity, and loss and damage to destinations.