This course is designed to provide students with a thorough overview of tourism planning at the local, regional, national, and international levels. It provides a variety of practical planning theories, procedures and guidelines to meet the diverse needs of travelers, destinations communities, tourism and hospitality organizations, public, non- governmental organizations, and the private sector. This course will concentrate on developing student's competencies in the basic techniques of planning and development sustainable tourism plans as well as procedures and guidelines to enable students to understand the tourism planning process and general surveys; tourist markets, facilities, services and infrastructure; planning analysis and policy formulation; development of design standards, environmental and socioeconomic considerations in tourism planning and tourism plan implementation.