Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2023-24

The subject “Typologies of tourist spaces” is a subject that aims to bring students closer to the basics of tourism typologies and the tourist spaces. The main goal is to understand the enormous variety of typologies in the territory.


Students will learn about the different typologies analysed (golf, nautical, nature, skiing, etc.) in order to interpret the complex reality of tourist spaces, identify the socio-economic and territorial impacts and recognise the most interesting models for the tourist development of territories, according to its main features and conditions.


This subject analyses the different typologies of tourist spaces and some associated modalities, with emphasis of those that are not included in other related subjects. The outline of the explanation of contents usually has two different parts: 1) the contents on the conceptual bases and features of the particular tourist modality analysed and 2) the typologies or facilities arising around a basic tourist resource, which determines the existence of a specific tourist practice (golf, sailing, culture, snow…). Some units also analyse the territorial impacts linked to a specific tourist typology.


The subject is linked to other geographically based subjects of the syllabus in the Degree of Tourism, like “Introduction of Geography of Tourism”, “Tourism activities in rural areas”, and “Tourism and territorial practices in local development”.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2023-24

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

  • CGUA4 : Be able to commit oneself ethically with sustainability, fundamental rights, equality of men and women, the principles of equal opportunity and universal accessibility for the disabled, as well as the values of a peaceful, democratic culture.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE1 : Understand the principles of tourism: its spatial, social, cultural, legal, political, labour and economic dimension.
  • CE18 : Identify and manage tourist areas and destinations.
  • CE19 : Manage tourist areas in accordance with sustainability criteria.
  • CE23 : Analyse the impacts generated by tourism.
  • CE3 : Understand the dynamic and evolutionary nature of tourism in the new leisure society.
  • CE5 : Convert and empirical problem into an object of research and draw conclusions.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2023-24

- Understand the basic principles of tourism and its territorial impacts, supported by ITCs.

- Carry out basic research related to the subject through different sources of information and reaching conclusions.

- Formulate proposals for intervention and identify experiences of tourism activity.

- Differentiate demand profiles in relation to the characteristics of tourism models.

- Apply critical and analytical skills on the phenomenon of tourism, through the activities proposed in class.

- Valuing that the tourism activity must be sustainable and respectful on the environmental, cultural and demographic values of the territory.

- Ability to integrate into working groups, in a participative and active way.

 

 

General

Code: 23520
Lecturer responsible:
Larrosa Rocamora, Jose Antonio
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
    Area: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught