SACE Tourism past exams 2023–2025, by year and topic

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ATARMAxxing indexes 3 official SACE Board Tourism papers from 2023 to 2025, with 4 questions mapped to 4 topics. Every paper opens on the SACE Board website.

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Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025) · 2011–present

SACE Tourism exams by year: official papers & marking guidance

Past exams indexed: 2025, 2024, 2023. Open the official SACE Board papers, with marking guidance where available.

Year	Study design	Official paper(s)	Marking guidance
2025 SACE Tourism exam	Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)	Tourism e-exam ↗	Marking guidance ↗
2024 SACE Tourism exam	Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)	Tourism e-exam ↗	Marking guidance ↗
2023 SACE Tourism exam	Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)	Tourism e-exam ↗	Marking guidance ↗

3 official papers across 3 years (2023–2025), 3 with marking guidance, published by SACE Board.

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Theme 3 — Planning for and Managing Sustainable Tourism · 2 mapped questions

Positive and negative impacts of wildlife tourism

2025Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)2025 Tourism e-exam Question 510 marksUsing a range of sources on whale shark tourism in a small island nation, analyse its positive and negative impacts and reach an overall judgement.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Management plan recommendations

2025Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)2025 Tourism e-exam Question 712 marksOutline and justify three recommendations for a management plan to protect the wildlife from tourism's negative effects, one each for the national government, tourism businesses and visiting tourists, using sources and own knowledge.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Also in this topic: Sustainability and the Triple Bottom Line · The Butler Sequence and carrying capacity · Environmental impacts and management methods · Indigenous perspectives and cultural sustainability · Evaluating strategies and justified recommendations for stakeholders — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Source analysis skills · 1 mapped question

Validity and bias

2025Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)2025 Tourism e-exam Question 68 marksEvaluate a news article and a tourist interview for validity and bias, including how the two sources corroborate each other; the least successful question of the paper.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

Also in this topic: Interpreting and comparing data · Evaluating validity and bias of sources · Audio-visual sources · Extended-response communication — question-level mapping in progress; the year table above links every official paper.

Themes 1-3 · 1 mapped question

Visitor markets and data; event economics; Plog and Doxey; working holiday makers

2025Stage 2 Tourism Subject Outline (accredited from 2011, reissued to 2025)2025 Tourism e-exam Part A (Questions 1-4)50 marksFour compulsory short-response questions with lettered parts: comparing two international visitor markets using survey percentages and explaining campaign differences; describing economic benefits of a football round and explaining its multiplier effect and the state government's role; applying Plog's model and cultural commodification to island tourism, justifying sustainable growth strategies and explaining limitations of Doxey's Irridex; explaining push/pull factors and the regional importance of working holiday makers and suggesting strategies to attract them. Per-question marks are not given in the Subject Assessment Advice.Official paper ↗Marking guidance ↗Check tutors for this question →

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Theme 1 — Operations and Structures of the Tourism Industry — Tourism sectors, subsectors and the tourism system · Collaboration and packages between sectors · Roles of governments and organisations; regulation · Economic impacts, multiplier effect, leakage and seasonality · Mass, niche and special interest tourism · Employment, labour shortages and external shocks
Theme 2 — Travellers' Motivations and Perceptions, and the Interaction of Host Community and Visitor — Definitions of tourist and tourism · Push and pull factors · Plog's model of tourist types · Market segmentation and targeted campaigns · Doxey's Irridex and sociocultural impacts · Responsible tourism, greenwashing and veneer environmentalism

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