Course Description & Objectives:
- Public Policy definitions.
- The policy environment (power arrangements, values, institutional arrangements, etc).
- The policy arena (interest groups, institutions, institutional leadership, etc).
- Specific policy issues (demands, decisions, outputs, outcomes, etc).
- Tourism public policy scale (International, national, local),
- Tourism policy producer, non-producer and interest groups at the various scales.
- Importance of tourism planning.
- Tourism Institutional elements and planning.
- Tourism planning process (Study preparation to implementation and monitoring).
- Organizational structure for tourism planning and policy.
- Tourism investment policies and incentives.
- Tourism planning in East Africa.
- Tourism policies in East Africa.
- The Uganda situation and its implication for tourism development.
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