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Theme 1 — Operations and Structures of the Tourism Industry
How the industry is organised and how it behaves as a system: sectors and subsectors (transport, accommodation, attractions and activities, hospitality, tour operation and distribution, events and MICE), how they depend on and collaborate with each other through packages and joint marketing, and the role of local, state and federal governments and other organisations in regulation, infrastructure, marketing and funding. It also covers the economics of tourism (revenue, employment, the multiplier effect, leakage, seasonality), the types of tourism from mass to niche and special interest, and the nature of tourism employment.
Theme 2 — Travellers' Motivations and Perceptions, and the Interaction of Host Community and Visitor
Who tourists are and why they travel: definitions of tourist and tourism, push and pull factors, needs and expectations, market segmentation and consumer behaviour, and Plog's model of tourist types. The second half examines what happens when visitors and hosts meet: Doxey's Irridex, sociocultural impacts such as commodification, staged authenticity and the demonstration effect, cultural sustainability, and responsible tourism, including greenwashing by businesses and veneer environmentalism by tourists.
Theme 3 — Planning for and Managing Sustainable Tourism
Sustainability seen through three interconnected aspects (economic, sociocultural, environmental) and the Triple Bottom Line; generational and intergenerational sustainability through long-term planning; the Butler Sequence and carrying capacity; methods of managing tourism such as site hardening, zoning, permits and caps, levies, codes of conduct and education; Indigenous perspectives, country and cultural sustainability; and the implications of mass tourism and preferred futures.
Source analysis, data and extended response
The skills that every exam question uses: quoting specific figures from tables and surveys, comparing groups and calculating simple percentages or changes, evaluating sources for validity, bias and accuracy, treating video sources as evidence, following command words, and writing structured extended responses with tourism terminology.
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