Course Description & Objectives:
- The concept of sustainable development – sustainable development, sustainable tourism, interactions of tourism with the environment.
- Tourism sustainability principles (ecological, socio-cultural and economic).
- Dimensions of sustainable tourism – trends in demand, environmental issues, different types of holidays, reactions of the tourism industry
- Partners in sustainable tourism development. Private and Public sector involvement – drive to sustainable development, market imperfections, motives of ethics and justice, roles of government, private sector and local community.
- The tourism industry, the environment and the community.
- Managing the tourism sector and its environmental and social impacts.
- Case studies of the situation in the Great Lakes region.
- Uganda’s policies and implications for sustainable tourism development.
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