MGMT504 Risk and Contingency
Management
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ASSESSMENT OBJECTIVES
This assessment is designed to help you achieve the following Unit Learning Outcomes:
• ULO 1: Critically appraise what constitutes a risk and crisis.
• ULO 2: Conduct a risk and vulnerability analysis of an organisation, an industry sector, and/or
tourism destination.
• ULO 3: Demonstrate a fundamental understanding of strategic crisis management.
• ULO 4: Critically evaluate the importance of strategic crisis management in the contemporary
society and its effective application to hospitality and tourism industries.
• ULO 5: Possess critical insights into emerging issues and concepts in crisis management.
The marking rubric is accessible through the relevant assessment on Engage.
ASSESSMENT INSTRUCTIONS
Topic 4 – Crises Spheres of Activity
Using the example of Australia or the country you live in, please address the following tasks:
1. identify and explain specific ‘pull’ factors that normally attract the tourists to that
destination.
2. list specific crises/disasters that have affected the destination in the past 10 years. What
happens when the image is being affected by a negative event.
3. identify the specific ‘pull’ factors have been affected by these crises and disasters. Explain
how did this impact tourism and hospitality industry.
4. what are specific vulnerabilities/weak points were revealed during the crises? How can they
be addressed by relevant stakeholders?
FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS
• Your assessment must be written in academic style and in the third person.
• References are optional. If you do provide a reference, you must use a variation of the
Harvard referencing style, e.g., as per LCBA’s Harvard Referencing Guide or the Harvard
Anglia 2008 MS Word’s built-in Citation & Bibliography tool. All references must be
formatted consistently in accordance with the chosen style.
• You must submit your assignment to Turnitin, via LCBA Engage
• You must adhere to the following formatting conventions (as applicable):
o Document structure: Each of the following (if applicable) should start on a separate
page:
MGMT504 Risk and Contingency
Management
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▪ cover page (automatically generated within Turnitin)
▪ main text
▪ references
▪ appendices, labelled (A, B, C, … or 1, 2, 3, …) – excluded from word count
limit.
o Document layout
▪ A4 paper size
▪ normal margins
▪ page numbers in bottom-left of each page, except for the title page
▪ page numbering of the form: Page X of X
o Headings
▪ Calibri font
▪ 14-point font size
▪ either minimal or maximal capitalisation
o Body:
▪ Left alignment
▪ Calibri font
▪ 12-point font size
▪ 1.5 line spacing
▪ in-text quotes less than 40 words in inverted commas followed by reference
▪ quotes of more than 40 words as indented quotes, without inverted
commas, in 11-point font size, followed by reference
▪ double spaces between paragraphs