Tourism is a broad term that includes wide-ranging travel purpose such as business,leisure, pilgrimage, special events, and more, while air transport is a key travel mode through which these travels are realised and stimulated. Due to the symbiotic, yet sometimes conflicting relationships between air transport and tourism, a joint understanding of the two sectors are important in order to promote a more balanced and flexible approach to management and policies.

In this course students will develop the capacity to apply economic and geographic concepts and theories to understand air transport and tourism interactions. In so doing, students will be introduced to issues in aeropolitics and tourism access, analytical methods to measure and quantify aviation's tourism impact, the economic geography of airline networks and route development. Reading and case study materials are selected to represent a balance of global and local issues.