Tourism and Globalization

Final Personal Travel Strategy Paper

Your final paper should attempt to pull together the things you've learned in this course into what might be called your "personal travel strategy." This should involve both a philosophy of what goals and objectives you want your travel to achieve and a set of strategies you intend to employ to accomplish them. While I expect your goals and objectives to reflect in part the subject of the last several weeks in the course--issues of responsibility and impact on the one hand, and the question of how to get the most out of your travel on the other--I expect you to review the course as a whole for further inspiration and guidance.

Please keep in mind that your paper should accomplish two things: 1) Lay out a thoughtful and coherent personal travel strategy, and 2) Demonstrate your mastery of the relevant readings and your ability to adapt their insights into your own conceptual framework and thinking. I would assume that your paper would be roughly six to eight pages (double-spaced) long, but there is neither a rigid minimum nor maximum. All papers should include proper in-text citation and a reference list at the end. You may use any standard format, but if you need guidance on one, I suggest you use APA format as laid out in my department's Citation Guidelines webpage.