Lesson Plan

• Describe the purpose and key elements of a tourism policy.
• Explain the steps of the tourism planning process and the role of monitoring.
• Analyse different evaluation methods and interpret data to inform management decisions.
• Apply the adaptive cycle to a case scenario and propose appropriate adaptations.

• Projector and screen
• Printed handouts of the planning framework and case study
• Worksheets for monitoring indicators and evaluation methods
• Markers and flip‑chart paper
• Digital screenshots of visitor‑survey data and analytics dashboards
• Adaptation‑cycle role‑play cue cards

Begin by asking students to picture a popular tourist attraction that suddenly becomes overcrowded and ask how managers might respond. Link this to their prior knowledge of tourism impacts studied earlier. Explain that today’s success criteria are to identify monitoring indicators, evaluate a tourism initiative, and design an adaptation plan.

1. Do‑Now (5'): Students list problems that arise when tourism is unmanaged.
2. Mini‑lecture (10'): Overview of tourism policy, planning process, and the three management strategies.
3. Group activity (15'): In small groups, analyse the provided case study, select appropriate monitoring indicators and choose evaluation methods.
4. Whole‑class debrief (10'): Groups share findings; teacher highlights the adaptive cycle.
5. Role‑play simulation (15'): Students act as tourism managers deciding on adaptation actions based on the data collected.
6. Plenary & exit ticket (5'): Recap key concepts; students write one concrete adaptation they would implement.

Summarise how monitoring feeds evaluation, which in turn drives adaptation, reinforcing the cyclical nature of sustainable tourism management. Collect the exit tickets as a quick check for understanding. For homework, students research a local tourism site and draft a brief monitoring‑evaluation‑adaptation plan.