Environmental Systems
Modelling Assignment: Tourist Development (Physical Geography)
A modelling assignment for a regional development strategy challenges your first days in the new job.
Software and data you need for this modelling assignment:
Software and data you need for this modelling assignment:
- Vensim
- Whatever you want to use in addition.
Tasks
It is your first week on the job as a consultant. Your company has been hired by Hindafing's City Hall. This will be your first assignment.
Luckily, you are not alone but you work with two other persons, which have also been hired recently. Form a team and stay within that team until the end of the consultant task.
The information you got from your superior senior consultant is the following:
Your task is to develop a simple (because simple is easy to sell) presentation showing how the natural environment can be used as basis for spinning up tourism and consequently income.
Among others, the following simplification is allowed: You can assume, that the advertisement has a constant effect on the perceived attractiveness of the region and that you start with already one tourist (at least).
Luckily, you are not alone but you work with two other persons, which have also been hired recently. Form a team and stay within that team until the end of the consultant task.
The information you got from your superior senior consultant is the following:
- The city government wants to foster tourism in the region based on the high quality of it's natural environment.
- Your company's strategy department has already figured out the solution: some baseline advertisements running throughout the whole year will increase the publicly perceived attractiveness of Hindafing which will lead to more tourists and income.
Your task is to develop a simple (because simple is easy to sell) presentation showing how the natural environment can be used as basis for spinning up tourism and consequently income.
Among others, the following simplification is allowed: You can assume, that the advertisement has a constant effect on the perceived attractiveness of the region and that you start with already one tourist (at least).
Submission
Prepare the required presentation which in a software/format of your choice and upload the file in time via the exercises module of this course system. Upload the file as a team and include all your names in the presentation.
The submission deadline and the upload function can be found in the section Modelling Assignment: Development Strategy of the exercise module.
Review and grading
The assignment will be reviewed by the course supervisors. It will be further discussed in a plenum with your peers during the next session. Hence, please do not only upload the presentation but be prepared to say a few words.