2. Summarise Professor Gurran's ideas and thoughts.

3. What do you think of Airbnb after reading the following articles? 

ABC News 26 June 2024	News 22 February 2017
Traditional accommodation providers like hotels are worried. According to Tourism Accommodation Australia, “for every 100 rooms listed on Airbnb in Melbourne, 55 hotel industry jobs were lost.” (Source: Tomorrow Finance: 6 October 2016)

4. If you were a Hotel Manager, what would you do to attract tourists to stay at your hotel instead of Airbnb? Write up your suggestions and discuss with a partner.

Working in Freycinet, Tasmania?

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Cooperative Learning Activity

Introduction

Where is the Saffire Hotel Freycinet Tasmania? Read the following article to find out....

(Source: Australian Traveller)

1. You are to look at the following four videos to see the operation of the Saffire Hotel at Freycinet Tasmania. Discuss with three others your first impressions of the Saffire and the work of the Hotel Managers.

a. Justin King, General Manager, Saffire Freycinet Tasmania
https://youtu.be/5M3cAJqtwpM

b. Saffire Freycinet - Indulge In Complete Luxury
https://youtu.be/9cgluSfsXWY

c. Freycinet A Slice of Paradise
https://youtu.be/Lxtb0OFy5qM

d. Hotel Management Jobs - Danielle's Story
https://youtu.be/6CFJVoKJWDc

2. List the jobs that the Hotel Manager has to do. Is there a difference between Danielle's job and Justin's job?

3. You are to promote the job of Hotel Manager at Saffire, Freycinet Tasmania by creating a website using Wix, a free application.

4. Look at each other's websites - how would you improve your website next time?

”Hotel Rwanda” - the Ethical Issues Involved

Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Ethical Understanding

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Intercultural Understanding 

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy 

Philosophy

Cooperative Learning Activity 

1. In 2004, the movie "Hotel Rwanda" startle audiences, telling the real-life story of hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina’s courage and sacrifice to help many refugees during a civil genocide carried out by Hutu’s to Tutsis.

The following articles talk about the film Hotel Rwanda and it’s issues along with the historical accuracy.

In the first article from the Carnegie Council, you are to read the Overview and the Historical Accuracy and discuss as a class one of the 5 Ethical Issues and Discussion Questions presented.

Carnegie Council: Ethics on Film: Discussion of ”Hotel Rwanda”

Divide the class into 5 groups and allocate one Ethical Issue to each group.

Ethical Issue:

A. At the beginning of the film, Paul places far greater value on protecting his family than protecting his neighbors. But as the film progresses his sense of obligation to his neighbors and his countrymen deepens. Indeed, rather than abandon the refugees he is sheltering, he sends his family to safety while he stays behind.

Discussion

Is his decision the morally right one? In making decisions, how much weight should one give to the welfare of one's family compared to the welfare of one's neighbors? How much weight should governments give to the welfare of foreign peoples compared to that of their own citizens?

Ethical Issue:
B. The UN Colonel tells reporters that his troops are "peace-keepers," not "peace-makers." By UN mandate, UN troops were permitted to use their weapons only in self-defense.

Discussion

If the Colonel had disobeyed orders and authorized his troops to fire on Interhamwe fighters, would he have done the right thing?

Ethical Issue:
C. Do you agree that racism played a role in the international community's failure to act to stop the genocide, as the UN colonel says? The film makes no mention of other possible contributing factors, such as the disastrous U.S. humanitarian intervention in Somalia in 1993, less than a year before, which ended after a U.S. helicopter was shot down and the bodies of U.S. soldiers were dragged through the streets of Mogadishu.

Discussion

Does this justify the U.S. and the UN's refusal to intervene?

Ethical Issue:
D. The film shows that there was a close relationship between the French and Hutu governments, even while the killings were going on. On the tenth anniversary of the genocide, Rwanda's president accused the French of consciously training and arming the Hutus, knowing that they would massacre Tutsis. The French deny this, yet it is indisputable that France was the Rwandan government's number-one supplier of weapons.

Discussion

Does this fact alone make France more culpable for the genocide than the rest of the international community? How should responsibility be allocated for what happened, both inside and outside Rwanda?

How has the international community, in particular Belgium, France, the United States, and the UN, faced up to the question of responsibility and blame in the years since the genocide?

Ethical Issue:
E. In 2005, world leaders formally adopted the Responsibility to Protect [R2P]—the duty to intervene in when national governments fail to fulfill their responsibility to protect their citizens from atrocious crimes—and in 2006 the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1674, which commits the Council to protect civilians during armed conflicts.

Discussion

Do you agree that under certain circumstances, R2P should override sovereignty? Can you cite any examples where R2P has been or should be implemented?

2. As a class, come together and present what you know about each ethical issue and your group's reaction and discuss summary.

3. In the second article from the Guardian, discuss how Hollywood can't give all the "relevant" facts. How would you approach a film like Hotel Rwanda to convey the genocide by the Hutus? Discuss.

Local Copy of this article.  

The Guardian 7 August 2014

Another Episode of Fawlty Towers

Middle Secondary

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Critical and creative thinking

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Personal and social capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability

Australian Curriculum General Capability: Literacy

Cooperative Learning Activity

Introduction

Have you ever heard of Fawlty Towers (1975 - 79)?

Look at the following clip of John Cleese (English actor & comedian) telling a late night show host about the idea of a terrible hotel owner. Facebook

Storyline: Classic depiction of daily hotel life through the prism of the slight unhinged hotel owner Basil Fawlty, at their family run establishment near Torquay.

"Basil Fawlty is the main character of the 1970s British sitcom Fawlty Towers, played by John Cleese. The proprietor of the hotel Fawlty Towers, he is a cynical and misanthropic snob, desperate to attract hotel guests from the British upper class. His inept attempts to run an efficient hotel, however, usually end in farce. Possessing a dry, sarcastic wit, Basil has become an iconic British comedy character who remains widely known to the public despite only 12 half-hour episodes ever having been made.

Cleese would receive the 1980 British Academy Television Award for Best Entertainment Performance. In a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4, Basil was ranked second (to Homer Simpson) on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. Known for his quotable rants, the character was inspired by Donald Sinclair, an eccentric, inhospitable, and boorishly impolite hotel owner whom Cleese had encountered when he stayed at his hotel (Gleneagles Hotel in Torquay, Devonshire) along with the rest of Monty Python in May 1970."

 
(Source: IMDb)

Now have a look at some of the "hideous moments" of this manager.

Fawlty Towers: The best of Basil (part 1)
https://youtu.be/eUUyCjeTV7Y?si=9mkTWVfjWfQlslJE

1. In groups of 3 - 5 students, you are to come up with a new storyline for Basil. Look at the previous storylines (Wikipedia).

2. Once you have decided on a storyline, check with your teacher about your concept.

3. Write up this new 30 min play