Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

Geography of Tourism is a general subject that aims to introduce students to the geographical environment as a basic determinant of tourism and leisure activities. It is the territory and all the complex factors that comprise it that enhance or diminish the possibilities or development of tourism in a specific society. This subject examines concepts and sources for understanding and analyzing tourism, analyzes the interrelationships between tourism activity and different geographical environments, assesses all types of territorial impacts generated by tourism, differentiates the different types of tourism in relation to the territories in which they operate, and seeks to raise awareness about the necessary sustainability that must accompany the performance of these activities and the territorial planning involved. The introductory and general purpose of the subject also provides a basic introduction to issues such as the use of information technologies, resource management, and teamwork.

 

 

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

General Competences (CG)

  • CG1 : Capacity to analyse and synthesise.
  • CG10 : Ethical commitment to sustainability, respect for fundamental rights, equality of men and women, democratic values, multiculturalism and peace.
  • CG2 : Capacity for organisation and planning.
  • CG3 : Capacity to manage information correctly, especially using ICTs.
  • CG4 : Capacity to work alone or in groups depending on the context and situation.
  • CG5 : Capacity for self-learning and adapting to new situations.
  • CG6 : Capacity to put one's knowledge into practice.
  • CG7 : Capacity to communicate orally and in writing clearly and appropriately to the context.
  • CG8 : Systematically careful and accurate at work.

 

Specific Competences (CE)

  • CE10 : Capacity to make spatial planning, service and activity location proposals from the viewpoint of sustainable development.
  • CE2 : Capacity to understand and handle the concepts, methodology and techniques of Geography and Spatial Planning correctly.
  • CE3 : Capacity to understand and use the concepts of other disciplines correctly, especially history, law and town planning.
  • CE4 : Capacity to combine temporal and spatial dimensions when analysing and interpreting spatial planning.
  • CE5 : Capacity to read and interpret spatial information provided by statistical tables, graphs, maps, plans and satellite images correctly.
  • CE6 : Capacity to transform and synthesise spatial information provided by statistical tables, graphs, maps and plans.
  • CE7 : Capacity to determine and interpret the elements of the area in question according the scale of analysis.
  • CE8 : Capacity analyse territory as a complex, interrelated and interdependent system.
  • CE9 : Capacity to present and transmit knowledge related to spatial analysis in an ordered, simple and clear manner, appropriate to the context.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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

  • Understand and master the elements and characteristics of geography of tourism.
  • Be able to analyze and interpret the territorial impact of tourism activities.
  • Explore new forms of tourism development.

 

 

General

Code: 33039
Lecturer responsible:
Amat Montesinos, Xavier
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,60
Practical credits: 0,80
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: Human Geography
    Area: Human Geography
    Theoretical credits: 1,6
    Practical credits: 0,8
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught