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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Course Overview

Students who receive TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Course will learn how difficult it is to safeguard the environment while promoting tourism. It is important that we consider the ecological strain that growing tourism places on the ecosystem and proceed cautiously to prevent environmental degradation due to uncontrolled tourism growth. 

TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Classes will explore and learn about ways to improve overall tourism quality and experience while also ensuring that adverse effects on ecology and environment, including those caused by tourism, may be checked and avoided as a part of TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Course Syllabus. 

The Highlights

  • Provided by IGNOU
  • Online course
  • 16 weeks course
  • Learn at your own pace
  • Expert Lectures

Programme Offerings

  • video lectures
  • Study Materials

Courses and Certificate Fees

Certificate Availability
no

Eligibility Criteria

Work experience

Work Experience is not a criteria to get enrolled into this course.

What you will learn

Knowledge of tourism

TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Course offers a broad framework for studying the environment, covers its essential elements, and then underlines how our environment has changed over time. It emphasises the disturbing truth that change is occurring at a faster rate as a result of human activity - you can further look into Environmental Science Certification Courses.

TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Training looks at a variety of intricate biotic interactions between people and within populations of communities. It also examines biodiversity conservation, a pertinent and important contemporary environmental issue. 

The following learning outcomes are achieved upon successful conclusion of this TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Course:

  • Basic understanding of ecology and the environment.
  • Fostering an understanding of the special value of our ecological and environmental resources.
  • Increasing your awareness of the current environmental challenges as a tourist worker.

Who it is for

Everyone can apply for the online course TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism and learn.


Admission Details

Interested students are urged to enroll in TS-5: Ecology Environment and Tourism Course by following these steps:

  • Step 1: Visit the official website
  • Step 2: Fill personal details in the application form
  • Step 3: Upload the necessary documents

The Syllabus

Week-1
  • Unit 1: Our Environment 
  • Unit 2: Linkages in Nature
Week-2
  • Unit 3: Biomes of The World
Week-3
  • Unit 4: Communities in Nature

Week-4
  • Unit 5: Conservation Through Ages
  • Unit 6: Environmental Parameters And Tourism
  • Unit 7: Indian Philosophy And Environment

Week-5
  • Unit 8: Environment And Development 
  • Unit 9: Concepts Of Development 
  • Unit 10: Responsible Tourism - Benefits

Week-6
  • Unit 11: Access, Infrastructure And Land Use: Basic Issues
  • Unit 12: Community And Regional Assets
  • Unit 13: Multiplier Effect: Benefits and Consequence

Week-7
  • Unit 14: Practice and Potential
  • Unit 15: Site and Locational Planning
Week-8
  • Unit 16: Uneven Regional/National
  • Unit 17: Alternatives

Week-9
  • Unit 18: Tourism Policy and Its Impacts 
  • Unit 19: Infrastructure
Week-10
  • Unit 20: Environmental Degradation and tourism
  • Unit 21: Acts and Laws
  • Unit 22: Politics of Environment

Week-11
  • Unit 23: Identifying Pressures and Understanding Thresholds
  • Unit 24: Host/Local Population
  • Unit 25: Visitor Behaviour

Week-12
  • Unit 26: Vegetation and Wildlife
Week-13
  • Unit 27: Mountains

Week-14
  • Unit 28: Wetlands 
  • Unit 29: Islands and Beaches
Week-15
  • Unit 30: Sports – Adventure, Golf, Water
Week-16
  • Unit 31: Hotels and Resorts

Instructors

IGNOU Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)

1: What is the relationship between the environment & ecology to tourism?

Because it has always depleted natural resources, tourism depends on the environment. 

2: Because it has always depleted natural resources, tourism depends on the environment.

The classes are delivered by teachers through pre-recorded videos and lectures. 

3: Why is the environment important in tourism?

As a human activity, tourism necessitates the use of resources and interaction with the environment; additionally, the environment is always the main focus of tourism.

4: Who is the teaching faculty for this course?

The instructor for this course is Prof. Paramita Suklabaidya. 

5: What is tourism and ecology?

Tourism ecology is the study of how people interact with the built and natural environments and all of their constituent parts.

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