1642 Innovative Sustainable Tourism - Digital Literature Review

LO 1. Examine indepth the historical context and discourse analysis of sustainable tourism
LO 2. Critically explore the key drivers of innovative sustainable tourism within an unpredictable environment

Assignment Task:

(a) Conduct a literature review on how ONE of the following sustainable concepts has evolved in definition, driving factors and ‘success' characteristics over the period 2000 to 2022.

- Regenerative tourism
- Circular tourism
- Transformational tourism
- Inclusive Community-based tourism

(b) Based on your findings in Task (a), create a new framework of your chosen conceptshowcasing its key characteristics, with evidence,within the current environment.

For additional guidance on this assignment, please access the assignment vodcast available on Canvas.
This is a live session, so students do not need to pre-record their voice over their slides. All sessions will be recorded for both internal and external moderation purposes.

A literature review is a review of the most pertinent studies on your chosen sustainable concept (within the given timeframe) with a clear purpose. For this assignment, the purpose includes the following:
How is this concept defined? How has the defined evolved over time?
What were the key external forces/drivers of the rise in this concept and possibly the change in definition?
What are the key criteria that a destination/provider must demonstrate in order to be classified as offering your chosen concept?
Based on these criteria, present a model (a drawing of your framework) to capture these key characteristics/criteria of your chosen concept, which could be used to audit various case studies.

A digital literature review simply involves a presentation where you use images such as a timeline to showcase how the concept has evolved over time. Students can then embed links to pertinent studies within this timeline. We will expect students to have a confidence in articulating the key findings of their selected texts, why those texts were chosen and how the outcomes of these studies shaped the discourse on their chosen concept. This type of assessment will develop a range of academic and personal skills.

The question/answer session will simply examine the above points in more depth.

Students will only present to their lecturers; all sessions will be recorded (for internal and external moderation purposes).

Schedule - students can choose their preferred time slot on a first-come-first-served basis. The ‘live schedule' will be posted when the assignment is launched. Students are only required to attend their scheduled session. Students are expected to arrive on time, so that they can use the maximum time within their given timeslot.