11600 Columbia College
Drive Sonora, California 95370 209·588·5100
Recommended for Success: Students should have experience with web navigation and e-mail usage.
Lecture: 3 hours
This course provides a survey of the scope and nature of leisure travel and tourism; its history, organization, problems, opportunities and future trends. Emphasis is placed on the interplay of consumer behavior, motivations, perceptions, with the economic, environmental, and social implications of tourism. Includes analysis of the links between the hotel, food, transportation, recreation, and other tourism sectors. This course will be beneficial to the consumer of travel services as well as the travel & tourism professional. Students will need an e-mail account and access to the Internet.
Transfer: CSU
