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INTRODUCTION TO THE GEOGRAPHY OF TOURISM
Introduction to the Geography of Tourism is a general and introductory subject about the relationship between the territory, society and the tourist activities. In this subject, we are going to analyse the key factors that operate in the territory in order to create tourist development processes.
As an introduction for future geography-based subjects, Introduction to the Geography of Tourism gives general and basic information in terms of vocabulary, sources of information, methods of analysis or information technologies.
This subject is related to other geographical subjects as Tipología de Espacios Turísticos, Recursos Territoriales Turísticos or Actividades Turísticas en el medio rural that will be held on the next courses of the studies of Tourism.
General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)
Specific Competences (CE)
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General Objectives
• Understanding the influence of the elements of the geographical environment, and in particular, the importance of tourism resources in the development of tourism.
• Analysing international tourist flows and major destinations worldwide as well as the factors that have influenced its development and major trends in the short and medium term.
Conceptual Objectives
• Understanding the different dimensions of tourism and their interrelationships.
• Learn recent trends and dynamics of tourism in the context of globalization and sustainability.
• Explain the location factors tourism activities.
• Knowing the geographical, social, economic, political, cultural particularities of tourism resources and destinations.
• Understand the interrelationships of tourism with environmental processes that interact at local, regional and global scale, with particular attention to the effects of climate change and biodiversity loss.
Procedural Objectives
• Explaining the global tourism systems and concrete tourist destinations through the analysis on different territorial scales.
• Identify and describe the attractions of an area or region and the different types of tourism.
• Locate and describe the major tourist regions.
• Manage different sources of information for analyzing tourism. Analyzing data of economic, sociocultural and territorial environment at different scales to interpret their influence in tourist destinations.
Attitudinal Objectives
• Develop critical thinking skills about the processes of tourism development in relation to the principles of social and environmental ethics.
• Demonstrate interest in the knowledge of the reality and evolution of tourist areas.
