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PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY

Puerto Princesa City

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Approval Sheet

Course Title: Sustainable Tourism

Course Code/ Number: TPC-6
Term and School Year: 1st Semester, A.Y. 2023-2024

Revision Effective Date Details of Origination/ Revision Author/ Subject Matter Expert
Level
000 August 23, 2021 Compliance with Outcomes-Based Education (OBE) and Zayra May G. Dela Torre
Quality Management system (QMS) requirements.

001 August 7, 2023 -Modification of teaching and learning activities in compliance Maria Theresa Erika A. Dumancas
with the full-face to face learning modality

Prepared by Recommending Approval Approved

MARIA THERESA ERIKA A. DUMANCAS LIEZL P. TEJEDOR, MTHM GLENN D. VALLEJO

Name and Signature of Faculty Member Name and Signature of Department Chairperson Name and Signature of Dean
Date: Date: Date:
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COURSE SYLLABUS IN TPC-6: SUSTAINABLE TOURISM

PSU Vision An internationally recognized university that provides relevant and innovative education and research for lifelong learning and
sustainable development.
PSU Mission The Palawan State University is committed to upgrade peoples’ quality of life by providing education opportunities through
excellent instruction, research and innovation, extension, production services, and transnational collaborations.
PSU Shared Values E-Excellence in service, Q-Quality assurance, U-Unity in diversity, A-Advocacy for sustainable development, L-Leadership by
example, I-Innovation, T-Transparency, Y-Youth empowerment.
Institutional Outcomes The Palawan State University graduates are expected to be agents of change, creative and critical thinkers, effective
communicators, research-oriented learners, and value laden individuals.
College Goals and Goal
Program Objectives To produce internationally competent graduates who are morally upright, humane, and productive and prime movers of
development in the field of Hospitality Management and Tourism.

Program Objectives
The BSTM aims to achieve the following objectives:
1) To equip the students with knowledge, skills, and experiences that will help them develop critical thinking, creativity and
sounds values desired in the practice of the profession;
2) To produce tourism–oriented graduates who can compete globally and act in a manner consistent with the high moral and
ethical standards of the profession;
3) To develop the students’ knowledge and skills in conducting ecotourism researches towards sustainable development;
4) To produce graduates who possess traits and competencies expected of future managers, entrepreneurs, and leaders so as
to assist in the development, growth and professionalization of the hospitality and tourism industry.
Course Title Sustainable Tourism
Course Code/ Number TPC-6
Course Description Students will have a broad understanding of environmental issues and impact in upon the tourism industry, therefore subject
areas such as pollution, waste management and biodiversity will be a primary focus. Awareness and the understanding of the
implications of tourism impacts, especially on sociocultural and environmental aspects, are critical to properly guided sustainable

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tourism planning and development. The natural and cultural environments of communities and global destinations will be
explored to enable students to critically interpret tourism interdependency, and the changes and development of domestic and
international tourism policy. The course critically examines tourism planning as a process and as a set of techniques for
sustainable tourism development. It focuses on the physical environment of tourism planning and the social, cultural and political
realities of planning and policy making.
Credit Units 3.0 Units
Course Prerequisites THC-QSM
Link to Program
Outcomes Course Outcomes Program Outcomes
a b c d e f g
1. Understand the philosophy behind sustainable
I
tourism.
2. Gain awareness on the various impacts of tourism
I, P
in the development of a destination.
3. Discuss the process and method of planning,
research and managing effects involving I, D
sustainable tourism.
4. Relate to and analyze the history and development
I
of the concept of sustainable development.
5. Enumerate the design criteria for a tourism site,
which includes environmental sensitivity,
I,P,D
inclusivity, cultural sensitivity, safety, tropical
design, and gender sensitivity.
Legend (for program outcomes):
I- Introduced concepts/ principle P- Practiced with supervision D- Demonstrated across different settings with minimal
supervision
Program Outcomes:
The graduates of a BSTM should be able to but not limited to:
 Plan, implement and monitor tours and sales activities.
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 Research, plan and conduct various tour guiding activities.

 Develop appropriate marketing programs and arrange the required travel services.
 Plan/Organize, implement and evaluate MICE activities.
 Plan, develop and evaluate tourism sites and attractions.
 (CMO No. 62, Series of 2017, Article IV, Section 6.4) Analyzes situations, identifies problems, and formulates solutions
and implements corrective and/or mitigating measures and action.
Course Outcomes At the end of the course, the students are expected to be able to:
1. Understand the philosophy behind sustainable tourism.
2. Gain awareness on the various impacts of tourism in the development of a destination.
3. Discuss the process and method of planning, research and managing effects involving sustainable tourism.
4. Relate to and analyze the history and development of the concept of sustainable development.
Course Format This course utilizes the following strategies; Lecture and discussion, macro teaching, case analysis, problem solving,
brainstorming etc.

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 LEARNING PLAN
Course Textbooks
Intended Learning
Time Outcome Course Content/ Republic
Subject of the
Teaching and Learning
Philippines Resource /
Outcomes Assessment Tasks
Frame s Matter/ Topic Activities
PALAWAN STATE UNIVERSITY Materials Reference
Puerto Princesa City s

Week 1. Discuss the PSU UNIT 0. INTRODUCTIONPSU-PCAT

Group Discussion Oral Discussion on the Copies of PSU
1 Vision, Mission, and Students will discuss the relevance of the course PSU Handbook
Core Values. PSU Vision, Mission,COURSE
Core relevance
SYLLABUS of the course to to the achievement of Vision and
Values, Institutional the PSU vision and Mission
(3hrs) the achievement of the
2. State the Outcomes, Program mission. goals and
institutional outcomes, Goals/Outcomes, Course PSU Vision and Mission, objectives CMO
program goals and Policies & Requirements program goals and and No.62
outcomes.  PSU Vision, Mission objective and course course series
and Quality syllabus. syllabus 2017
3. Discuss course  Program Goals and
requirements and Objectives
classroom policies.  PSU Shared Values PSU
 Classroom Policies Student
4. Discuss BSTM  Course Requirement Manual
program goal and CMO 69,
objectives S 2017

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