Sustainable Tourism Practices/What is Sustainability?/Sustainability and Tourism/Lesson Plans

Lesson Plans
Personal introductions

Course overview

Setting up of individual blogs - Wordpress (invite me to contribute)

Work on blog - post your group definition - then find one you like and post it.

Intro to sustainability

Group exercise to define sustainability


 * Al Gore 10min


 * Franz Josef Glacier

In a business context

Sustainability NZgovt - 3 video series


 * Food10m


 * housing 8.32m


 * travel 6.34m

In a tourism context

Look at some leading examples of Sustainable tourism businesses
 * sustainable tourism

Lesson
Eco tourism

Impacts


 * Reading - The island utopia Hollywood ruined

Lesson
Sustainable Tourism - Responsible Tourism (Eco Tourism)


 * Cambodia Poverty


 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SXXMOg9BvM Tirol Austria] sustainable practices

Transport

future bus stop Istops

Lesson
Significance of Maori Tourism

I am Ngai Tahu - website (values) sustainability I am Ngai Tahu Tikanga - the right way Look at the values above – what they are ETv programme (29 mins) - Ngai Tahu Tourism

[1] National Geographic video 2.30m

Te Puni Kokiri - Case studies (split class into two groups) Kaikoura Whalewatch Shotover Jet Ask students to read - come back with a short presentation on the topic and to show evidence of how values could be applied to casestudy. Look at websites as well - get students to write a paragraph on blog about class Whale watch website Shotover Jet