You are required to develop an annotated bibliography of 10 different sources relevant to a discussion of a specific theme of special interest tourism that you will select for your essay assignment in Assessment 3. As such, it is expected that the resources identified for this assignment will then be used in your report for Assessment 3. Therefore, you should read the requirements for Assessment item 3 now.
Select ONE of the following specific forms of special interest tourism, remember you must use the same topic for assessment three:
· Health, Wellness, and Medical Tourism
To develop your annotated bibliography, you are expected to consult a range of different sources of information. As such you must include sources from the list below. Your choice of ‘sources’ can include each of the following:
· Scholarly journal articles (e.g. articles from Journal of Tourism Studies, Annals of Tourism Research) (Majority of sources should be scholarly journal articles)
· Books (single and/or multiple authors, and including chapters in edited texts) consider also conference proceedings)
· Government or industry body publications (e.g. policy documents, reports, legislation, online government documents)
· Statistical sources (e.g. World Tourism Organisation, Australian Bureau of Statistics, Bureau of Tourism Research, Tourism Forecasting Council, reliable online statistical sources)
(NOTE: The majority of the sources used should be scholarly journal articles.)
A short paragraph (of between 80 and 150 words), about each of the individual items identified, needs to briefly outline the content of the item and discuss the usefulness and relevance of the item to the chosen special interest tourism topic.
Note: Entries of less than 80 words in length will not be counted as part of the annotated list of items. The excess content of each entry more than 10% over the 150-word maximum will also be discounted.
Your annotated bibliography list should relate to one form of special interest tourism only. That is, the form of Special Interest Tourism that you select for Assessment item 1. If the specific item content overlaps with other forms of special interest tourism your paragraph should clearly highlight the relevance of the item to your chosen form.
The title page of the annotated bibliography should indicate the chosen form of special interest tourism for the assessment (this theme of special interest tourism then remains the same for Assessment item 3.
The examples below are for ‘Educational Tourism’.
Two examples of annotated bibliographic entries:
Example 1:
Reference details: Australian Bureau of Statistics 2000, online, Australia now – a statistical profile: population age-sex structure, viewed 12 March 2000.
Source: Statistical information
Access to item: Easy – Accessed online
Relevance to this form of Special Interest Tourism:
This site provides an overview of the changing age structure of the Australian population from 1901 to 1998. It illustrates that the Australian population is aging. Whilst the number of people aged under 15 years has fallen (from 37% in 1901 to 21% in 1998) the number aged over 65 years has increased from only 4% in 1901 to 12% of the population in 1998. This is an important statistic for educational tourism as the literature suggests (as indicated in other sections of this annotated bibliography) that the demand for educational tourism emerges largely from the more senior market.
Example 2:
Reference details: Kelly, I 1997, ‘Study tours: a model for benign tourism?’, Journal of Tourism Studies, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 42-51.
Source: Journal article
Access to item: Easy – Journal held on campus.
Relevance to this form of Special Interest Tourism: Kelly (1997) discusses the idea that people prefer to be seen as a ‘traveller’ than as a ‘tourist’ and suggests that educating the tourist can help to meet this need. The article presents a study of the Community Aid Abroad/One World Travel Tours ‘as a model for a more benign form of tourism’ (p. 42). It seems to suggest that a type of ‘educational tourism’ that educates the tourist to be ‘travelwise’ would have a positive effect on reducing the negative impacts of tourism.
Notes about the examples:
Word count
Both paragraph entries are within the 80 to 150-word count range (both are less than 100 words in length).
Layout
Notice that the headings (‘reference details’, ‘source’, ‘access to item’, and ‘relevance to form of special interest tourism’) are clearly distinguished from the content of the entry. Each complete entry is clearly separated from the other.
Reference details
The full reference details are as they would be in a Reference List. The entries are in alphabetical order and the Harvard system of referencing has been used. When quotes were used within the annotation they were indicated with quotation marks and appropriate citation details. Note: Direct quotes should be minimally used. The annotation should be mostly in your own words.