Department of Recreation & Tourism

1RT506: Internship

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism


1RT505: Research Project

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

Research Project is one of the Postgraduate Diploma in Recreation and Tourism (PDRT) modules offered in the Department of Recreation and Tourism. It is aimed at equipping students with the theoretical research knowledge and practical research skills. Students will work individually to design and conduct independent, qualitative and quantitative research. It is important at this level of study for students to appreciate the role of tourism research in the academia and industry. Research is not only done by academics, other researchers, and tourism business managers; they are also done by students. It is expected that you have acquired a prior knowledge of basic tourism research methods during your undergraduate studies.

This module has SAQA Credits of 30, offered at NQF Level 8, and requires 300 national hours of study (contact, field work, reports, and self-study).

1RT503- Tourism

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

1RT502: Recreation

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

This module aims at students acquiring extensive theoretical and practical knowledge in the fields of recreation, leisure and sport to enable them to work as specialists in the Recreation, Leisure and Sport sector.



1RT501: Resource Management

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

Management of natural resources implies the management of human use and influences to ensure the protection of these resources from degradation and for sustainability.


AHR503

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

Tourism Module - ART503

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

1RTO112: Business Tourism and Entrepreneurship

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism

Business tourism and entrepreneurship is a first year, first semester module in tourism studies. The module focuses on analysis of forms and processes of job creation within the tourism industry. It is quite an interesting module that will give students an understanding of the components of the tourism industry, and how to go about establishing different businesses that are found within the tourism industry.

The aim of the module is to provide students with knowledge and skills to start and manage their own small tourism related businesses. The module is aimed at building entrepreneurs and assist students studying business management.

It is importance to attend all lectures, participate in seminars, presentations and all other class activities that will be conducted during the semester. This will enable the students to understand and gradually develop the different skills that are needed in establishing and running tourism related enterprise.

 The key issues that this module focuses on are major tourism supply components, development of tourism products and tourism entrepreneurial planning processes.


EESG411

Course categoryDepartment of Recreation & Tourism