Bachelor of Sustainable Tourism

Lincoln University

Prepare to help grow a bold new future for tourism, with a focus on the wider context of sustainability in a changing world. Learn to apply your knowledge and skills in a range of public, non-profit and commercial sector organisations. Addressing urgent global sustainability challenges is at the heart of the Bachelor of Sustainable Tourism. Post-pandemic considerations are changing the future of the sector and experts are needed to develop sustainable tourism systems that will provide strategic management of sustainable tourism operations. How you’ll grow Demonstrate an understanding of the nature, characteristics and behaviour of tourists as consumers and the influence on tourist demand and sustainable tourism systems. Demonstrate an understanding of the dynamic global social, cultural, physical, economic and political environments in which sustainable tourism phenomena exist. Describe and explain sustainable tourism products, structure, operations and interactions within the tourism sector in New Zealand and internationally. Demonstrate an understanding of the requirements of sustainable tourism development in New Zealand derived from obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi. Select and apply appropriate research skills and techniques to specific sustainable tourism issues and challenges. Work in the bi-cultural contexts of sustainable tourism planning and development in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Evaluate and apply approaches to managing the development of tourism through the application of policy and planning models. Express commitment to a standard of behaviour based on professional ethics and conduct. Demonstrate sensitivity to gender, ethnicity and equity issues.

Faculty of Environment, Society and Design