Strategies for sustainable tourism
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Introduction
Students learn about different strategies that governments have used to manage the effects of tourism. They also learn that there is a point in time in the tourism life cycle when tourism can be rejuvenated or can decline, depending on the action taken. Students use this information to propose an alternative strategy to tourism taxes to promote sustainable tourism in their region. When deciding on their strategy, students consider the social, economic and environmental effects of tourism.
This activity focuses on the geographical concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability and change.
Achievement standard
By the end of Year 9, students explain how geographical processes change the characteristics of places. They analyse interconnections between people, places and environments and explain how these interconnections influence people, and change places and environments. They predict changes in the characteristics of places over time and identify the possible implications of change for the future. Students analyse alternative strategies to a geographical challenge using environmental, social and economic criteria.
Students use initial research to identify geographically significant questions to frame an inquiry. They evaluate a range of primary and secondary sources to select and collect relevant and reliable geographical information and data. They record and represent multi-variable data in a range of appropriate digital and non-digital forms, including a range of maps that comply with cartographic conventions. They use a range of methods and digital technologies to interpret and analyse maps, data and other information to propose explanations for patterns, trends, relationships and anomalies across time and space, and to predict outcomes. Students synthesise data and information to draw reasoned conclusions. They present findings, arguments and explanations using relevant geographical terminology and digital representations in a range of appropriate communication forms. Students propose action in response to a geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic and social factors, and predict the outcomes and consequences of their proposal.
Content descriptions
Geographical Knowledge and Understanding
The effects of people’s travel, recreational, cultural or leisure choices on places, and the implications for the future of these places (ACHGK069).
Geographical Inquiry and Skills
Reflect on and evaluate findings of an inquiry to propose individual and collective action in response to a contemporary geographical challenge, taking account of environmental, economic, political and social considerations; and explain the predicted outcomes and consequences of their proposal (ACHGS071).
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Effects of tourism and responses
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Strategies for sustainable tourism
Suggested activity sequence
This sequence is intended as a framework to be modified and adapted by teachers to suit the needs of a class group.
- Display and explain information on the visualiser.
- As a class, examine the model on the life cycle of tourism and discuss its predictions of the possibilities for tourism in the long-term.
- Discuss the social, economic and environmental problems that tourism may bring to the region where the students live.
- Students record the ideas using a mind map.
- Use a grouping strategy to organise students into groups of 3 or 4.
- Groups discuss different strategies to manage tourism in their region to minimise the social and environmental costs of tourists visiting the area.
- Groups:
- Choose 3 strategies and analyse the positive, negative and interesting aspects of each strategy and record these on the PMI chart.
- Select the strategy they think is most effective at reducing the social and environmental costs of tourism in their region.
- Share their selected strategy with the class, justifying their selection.