SITTPPD014 - Coordinate and operate sustainable tourism activities

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit's learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work-based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

• organise and operate tourism activities with minimal negative environmental and social impact in at least two different environments, one of which must be in an environmentally sensitive area
• develop and use minimal impact procedures for activities in above tourism and operating environments that:

• reflect global environmental issues
• relate to at least two of the following:

  educating customers
  restricting or limiting access
  site hardening
  staged authenticity
  technological solutions.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

• global environmental issues, including layperson level science associated with:

• climate change
• consumption of energy, waste and water and pollution
• waste minimisation practices
• land management and access

• environmental and social impacts of tourism in relation to global environmental issues, including impacts on sites and communities
• issues of responsibility for environmental and social sustainability:

• negative environmental impacts:
• disturbance of flora and fauna
• introduction of exotic and feral species
• physical damage
• pollution
• visual impacts

• negative social impacts:

• trivialisation of culture

• positive environmental impacts:

• visitor education
• improvement of sites already impacted
• opportunities for conservation and protection

• positive social impacts:

• economic benefits to local community
• employment
• greater understanding between host and visitor cultures
• improved local facilities

• visitor education
• practical sustainability considerations for tourism operations:

• environmentally or culturally sensitive areas and associated minimal impact practices
• handling and disposal of waste and human waste
• industry codes of practice
• use of water sources

• laws, regulations and land management requirements and guidelines:

• need for permits in national parks or on land under control of traditional owners
• restrictions on camp site operations and use of open fires

• minimal impact techniques and procedures in relation to:

• activity-specific guidelines
• energy use
• group size
• interaction with wildlife
• local customs and courtesies
• noise
• setting of camps
• souveniring
• use of tracks
• waste disposal

• biophysical and socio-cultural elements in an environment and the relationship between them
• changes in the natural environment requiring monitoring:

• breeding events
• changes to fauna
• changes to flora
• erosion
• species sighting

• information collection techniques for monitoring environmental and social impact:
• what is observed and measured:

• estimating percentage cover and water parameters
• temperature
• weather conditions

• how specific data is recorded:

• logbooks
• photography
• sighting forms.