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Travel and Tourism
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- The opportunities for those with a passion for travel and tourism are practically endless – tourism is not only a huge growth market in New Zealand, it’s a worldwide phenomenon. Watch this video interview with George Hickton, the CEO of Tourism NZ, explain the significance of Tourism to New Zealand and the world.
Otago Polytechnic continues to develop a range of short courses focused on teaching practical hands-on skills at front-line and managerial levels of the travel and tourism sector.
Otago Polytechnic is located in Dunedin New Zealand, near tourism hotspots including Queenstown, Wanaka and Fiordland. However, if you want to study further afield… well, the world’s your oyster! We are developing the capacity to support your learning in these courses wherever you choose to be.
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How these courses are structured
If you have decided to begin a career in tourism or coming back into the industry, then you might like to start with our introductory courses designed to set you up with the general skills and knowledge everyone working in the travel and tourism sector should have. But if you're already working in the area and can say you already have these general skills and knowledge, then you might prefer to go straight into your choice of the specialties we have developed. To obtain the qualification that this full programme has to offer, you will need to complete a work based research activity.
All the courses in this programme are spread across 3 areas: Introduction, Specialist, Work based research. Have a look, see what you think...
Introduction to Tourism
A day in the life of.... these core skills are introductory units which provide background knowledge about what careers are available in the tourism industry and what might be of interest to you in your future career. All core units are required to be completed and provide you with a National Certificate in Tourism (Core Skills) Level 3.
Please note: Otago Polytechnic plans to develop the introductory courses during February - July 2009. In the meantime, these courses are offered face to face at the Polytechnic.
- Day in the life of a tourist
- Day in the life of a conference and events organiser
- Day in the life of a retail travel agent
- Day in the life of a tour guide
Specialist area
These specialties focus on particular areas of the tourism industry. Those wanting to continue with their study on this programme now have to choose two of the following options (each worth 30 credits):
These options when combined with the Introduction to Tourism course above, complete the Certificate in Applied Travel and Tourism
For those wanting to continue and complete the Diploma in Applied Travel and Tourism - then a selection of 90 credits must be made from the following courses. The research and work based project is complusory.''
- Conference and Events - 15 credits
- Sustainable Tourism - 15 credits
- Nouveau Tourism - 15 credits
- Sales and Marketing - 15 credits
- Tourist Destinations - 15 credits
- Exploring Tourism - 15 credits
- Destination Dunedin - 15 credits
- Planning for Small Business - 30 credits
- Adventure Tourism - 30 credits
Compulsory
- Future Courses?
- Tourism Enterprises- unavailable
- Cook Islands Tourism - unavailable
Programme Resources
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- Library of resources - This is a general library of resources for the Travel and Tourism Programme. Each course in the programme also has its own library, as does each unit. Librarians, lecturers and research assistants please place general resources here and/or in the relevant course or unit libraries.
Research and Development
This section is for the general administration and further development of the programme and courses.
