Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

The course addresses local development from a tourism perspective. It focuses specifically on the opportunities tourism offers in local contexts to improve the living conditions of the population, enhance the dynamism of its productive structure, and protect its environment. Likewise, special attention is paid to tourism projects and innovative territorial practices that promote local, sustainable, and inclusive development.

The content and activities planned not only offer an up-to-date conceptual framework on the topic but also seek to stimulate critical reflection and entrepreneurial thinking among students in local contexts.

Due to its conceptual content and applied nature, the course is integrated into the two pathways of the Bachelor's Degree in Tourism: the one related to tourism business and the one related to the planning and management of tourism destinations.

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

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.
  • CE14 : Understand the legal framework regulating tourist activities.
  • 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.
  • CE32 : Detect technical planning needs for tourist infrastructures and facilities.
  • CE4 : Understand the main political-administrative structures of tourism.
  • CE5 : Convert and empirical problem into an object of research and draw conclusions.
  • CE8 : Evaluate tourist potential and the prospective analysis of exploiting it.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

  • Explore the conceptual foundations of local development.
  • Understand the factors and conditions for local development through tourism.
  • Analyze tourism modalities and products at the local level.
  • Interpret tourism as a driver of local and community development in vulnerable areas.
  • Reflect on the role of tourism in territorial development, the demographic challenge, and the fight against depopulation.

 

 

General

Code: 23752
Lecturer responsible:
Amat Montesinos, Xavier
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