TURB133 Managing Tourism Functions
Individual Written Assignment (50%)
Task Description
Students are required to investigate a National or Regional Tourism Organisation from a country of their choice and provide an analytical report on its structure, aims and objectives. Some destination background information is obviously required as a scene-setter, but the research should focus primarily on the role of the Tourism Organisation itself, NOT the location. Care should also be taken to select an organisation that is not just an inbound travel agency. To obtain a ‘pass’ or better, the analysis should be objective, incisive and based on clear theoretical principles and good practice.
6 academic sources are required as a minimum, and these should be in addition to the organisation website(s). Harvard referencing throughout the text is mandatory and submissions that do not meet these criteria will be rejected.
IMPORTANT – Students are invited to submit their choice of location and Tourism Organisation for approval and advice by Week 4. This should be in the form of an e-mail to the Tutor and should not exceed one page.
Format
2500 words +/-10% (not including cover page, table of contents, bibliography and appendix, although these are all required)
Deadline: Please see on the Moodle page of the module.
The assignment will be assessed based on the following criteria (see the grid on Moodle):
• Suitability of chosen subject (10%)
• TO roles understood and addressed (15%)
• Realistic appraisal (25%)
• Valid solutions (25%)
• Design & execution of submission (15%)
• Referencing (10%)
The resit for the assignment is the same subject as above; you may resubmit the same paper, with corrections, that you submitted by the original deadline. The resubmission deadline will be specified on Moodle after the grades for the original submission are published.
Academic conduct notice
Harvard-style referencing needs to be used consistently throughout. Incomplete referencing shall result in reporting the case to the Academic Conduct Officer, who keeps a record of such violations. First offenders may resubmit their papers and may receive 40% at most. Repeated violations of academic standards shall be sanctioned in line with the plagiarism regulations as detailed in the Student Handbook.
Where the Academic Conduct Officer has reason to suspect that a piece of work submitted by a student was wholly or in part written by someone other than the student who submitted it, and this has not been disclosed by the student, they may call for the student to defend the work in a viva or a written comprehension test. The burden of proof in such a viva or test will be upon the student to demonstrate to the examination panel’s satisfaction his/her full comprehension of the work s/he has submitted. Failure to appear without satisfactory explanation will result in immediate failure of that assessment, with consequences of academic misconduct and application of sanctions.
I am selecting Germany specifically Berlin for the Home Assignment, focusing on VisitBerlin.
