Describe the extent to which Singapore functions simultaneously as an origin region, transit region, and destination region: Tourism and Leisure Management Assignment, JCU, Singapore

The Tourism System

Describe the extent to which Singapore functions simultaneously as an origin region, transit region, and destination region.

Discuss the potential synergies and conflicts that emerge from each of the three region combinations (e.g. origin/transit, origin/destination, transit/destination).

Define your most recent experience as a tourist, in terms of which of the four categories in Figure 1 below it falls under, and also which purpose or purposes as discussed in topic of purposive component of the tourist (e.g. leisure, VFR, business, sport, spiritual & health, education, others). (5%, 100 words)

Figure 1 – Major tourist categories

Tourist Demand

Rank the following ten destination countries beginning with the one that you would most like to visit for a one-month vacation, and ending with the one that you would be least interested in visiting for a one-month vacation.

Zimbabwe Fiji Mexico China United States France Dubai India United Kingdom Russia Indicate the reasons for your rankings, referring in each case to each of the pull factors discussed in class.

Figures 2 & 3 below depict the top international tourist arrivals (by country) to Australia in 2010 and 2018. Please describe the differences between the two profiles, listing the factors that help to explain these differences.

Please predict what the pattern might look like in 2030.

Figure 2 – 2010 Top international tourist arrivals to Australia

Figure 3 – 2018 Top international tourist arrivals to Australia

Tourism and Leisure Sustainability

Sex tourism and volunteer tourism represent two contrasting forms of tourism. Use examples to:

Speculate on the likely positive socio-cultural, economic, and environmental impacts associated with sex tourism (for example, in Amsterdam’s red-light district).

Consider the likely negative sociocultural, economic, and environmental impacts associated with volunteer tourism (for example, a scenario involving a volunteer organization with a humanitarian focus). (10%, 200 words)

Tourism and Leisure Marketing

Conduct a SWOT analysis of a particular destination. Each of the four destinations should be located adjacent to one another either at the international scale (e.g. Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand) or at the subnational scale (e.g. Gold Coast, Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Hervey Bay).

Show how the other three destinations fit into the SWOT analysis of each destination.

Indicate ways in which the competition-related threats of these other destinations can be converted into opportunities.

Destination development

Weaver (2012) contends that a destination becomes an ‘arena of innovation’, as a matter of necessity, once carrying capacities are breached in the stagnation and decline stages. Select a mature destination that appears to have had its carrying capacities breached by tourism development at some stage and:

Identify the measures, if any, taken by the destination managers and communities to rejuvenate the destination.

Show how these measures are innovative with respect to, for example, organization, collaboration, technology, product development, marketing, and/or management.