MKT01760 Tourism Planning Environments

Task:

You are to assume the position of an independent tourism planning expert and are required to source, critique and compare two publically available tourism discussion papers on topics of your choice. These may be found online via a search of the internet or specific government sites. The policy planning cycle provides the framework for your critical evaluation of each individual paper and the comparison between them. Your assessment piece will conclude with a reflection section on lessons you learnt through doing this critique and how it might assist you in writing your own Discussion Paper (Assessment 3).

In order to complete the task you are required to:

Identify and introduce two relevant tourism related discussion papers and highlight the key issues they address.

Critique the structure of the discussion papers against the framework of the policy planning cycle.

Critique the content of the discussion papers with regards to sufficiency for relevant stakeholders.

Succinctly compare & contrast the two discussion papers with regards to structure, quality and effectiveness (i.e. your perception of the paper’s effectiveness in communicating with the target audience).

Reflect on what you have learnt from this critique and comparison; how this assessment has/has not improved your awareness, professional skills and knowledge relating to tourism planning environments; and how it might benefit you in writing your own

Discussion Paper (Assessment 3) (i.e. you need to engage with the Task for Assessment 3 for this).

Important Tips:

1. Make sure you are using two Discussion Papers, NOT journal articles, submissions to discussion papers or working papers. If still unclear, check with your tutor.

2. Review the Marking Rubric and use it as a guide for writing your critique.

3. The two discussion papers do NOT need to be about the same or similar topic or theme. Your comparison is based on their structure (measured against the policy cycle as explained in the Textbook) and on your adopted stakeholder perspective about the sufficiency of information provided - i.e. do you as a stakeholder have enough information to provide good input into the issue and do they cover your perspectives sufficiently? Thus the topic per se does not matte