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PHD IN TOURISM

Code:
 E021


 
 
Publication date:
 18/03/2015


 
 
Fee:
 300
 € por curso académico
 

LANGUAGE / S THAT IS OFFERED

Spanish
English

CENTRES WHERE IT IS TAUGHT

International Doctoral School

PROGRAMME JOINTLY SHARED WITH

Universitat d'Alacant - Universidad de Alicante (Spain)
UNIVERSIDAD DE MÁLAGA (Spain)
UNIVERSIDAD REY JUAN CARLOS (Spain)
UNIVERSIDAD DE SEVILLA (Spain)

CONTACT INFORMATION

PhD in Tourism

Academic Commission:

 Coordinator: JOSÉ FERNANDO VERA REBOLLO

 Secretary: ANTONIO J. GUEVARA PLAZA

Proposing body:

 I.U. Tourism Research

doctorado.turismo@ua.es

Doctoral School:

EIDUA-Doctoral School of the University of Alicante

Location: Multipurpose Building II (Codi SIGUA 0022PB001)

Telephone number 965 90 3466 

Contact EIDUA

BASIC AND GENERAL COMPETENCES

BASIC

CB11 - Systematic comprehension of a field of study and mastery of the skills and research methods related to said field. 

CB12 - Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process. 

CB13 - Ability to contribute to the expansion of knowledge barriers through original research. 

CB14 - Ability to carry out a critical and evaluative analysis and synthesize new and complex ideas. 

CB15 - Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community as well as society in general regarding your fields of knowledge in the modes and languages used normally in your international scientific community. 

CB16 - Ability to foment scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advances within a knowledge-based society in academic and professional contexts. 

PERSONAL SKILLS AND ABILITIES 

CA01 - To cope with contexts in which there is little specific information. 

CA02 - To find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem. 

CA03 - To design, create, develop and carry out innovating projects in your field of knowledge. 

CA04 - To be able to work as a team and as an individual in an international and multidisciplinary context. 

CA05 - To process knowledge, cope with complexity and formulate judgements with limited information. 

CA06 - To criticise and defend solutions intellectually.

Common compulsory transversal training activities

All students will have to do a series of transversal activities; some are common to all doctoral programs whereas others are specific to each individual program.

The vehicular languages will be Spanish and Valencian. 

The activities are the following: 

  • ACTIVITY 1: Tools for the management and recovery of information.
  • ACTIVITY 2: Goals and objectives of research.
  • ACTIVITY 3: Scientific communication models.
  • ACTIVITY 4: Transfer of knowledge models.

 For more information check the Doctoral School's webpage.

 Specific compulsory transversal training activities

The activities are the following:

  • ACTIVITY 1: Seminars and research workshops in tourism.
  • ACTIVITY 2: Joint work seminars for doctoral students in tourism.
  • ACTIVITY 3: Presentation of scientific communications to national and international congresses dedicated to tourism.

Optional transversal training activities

  
  • ACTIVITY 1: Mobility and stays at Universities and Higher Research Centres dealing with the topic of research. 

For more information contact the proposing body. U.I. for Tourism Research

 

RESEARCH AREAS

1 Planning and management of tourist destinations

2 Tourism and local development

3 Local society and effects of tourism

4 Management of natural resources and tourism

5 Territorial planning for tourism

6 Tourist arrangement of the coast

7 Tourism and development in interior spaces

8 Quality systems and environment in tourist businesses

9 New technologies applied to tourism

10 Innovation in tourist businesses

11 Quantitative methods in economy and tourist business

12 Market law, tourist hiring and electronic commerce related to tourism

13 Internationalisation of tourism businesses

14 Automatic treatment of data from qualitative and quantative perspectives. Statistical study of cognitive processes in tourism

15 Tourism in regional economic analysis

16 Tourism, development and cooperation

17 Human capital and tourism

18 Tourist communication

19 Marketing and research of tourist markets

20 Tourist marketing

21 Tourist value of cultural heritage

22 Cultural heritage, museums and local development

23 Teaching approach of cultural heritage

24 Travel literature

ADMISSION PROCEDURE

1. To be admitted in a doctoral program at the University of Alicante, it is necessary to fill in an electronic pre-registration form, available annually on the EDUA website.

2. Before starting the pre-registration process, it is advisable to consult the website of the chosen doctoral program in order to know the admission requirements demanded by the program.

3. The Academic Commissions (AC) are in charge of the admission process in the different doctoral programs.

4. The academic commissions decide annually the offer of places in every doctoral program according to the preconditions established in its Verified Memory. The commission may determine not to offer places when not having directors or tutors at any research line.

5. If the resolution is of “no admission”, in the computer application the reasons for the same will be detailed, having a calendar month to formulate an appeal before the AC; from the date of the resolution.

 

ACCESS PROCEDURE

1. In parallel with the admission process carried out by the AC, the Doctoral School (EDUA) verifies that the documentation provided is the one requested in the pre-registration form.

2. Applicants with higher studies attained in countries different from the EHEA*, at the moment of pre-registration process should pay an administrative fee for the study of their documentation, (equivalence study). The price of the rate is fixed annually by the Government of the Generalitat Valencia, by Decree.

3. People who do not provide the documentation in the terms required in the access process, may rectify this incident within 15 calendar days, from EDUA communication or, exceptionally, within the period determined by EDUA according to the concurrent circumstances.

4. When the incidents detected have not been resolved in the form and time determined by EDUA, the originated file academic record will be closed, without further processing.

5. The Doctorate School will proceed to open academic records to those who have been admitted by the AC and have correctly provided the required documentation, sending them an email with instructions to complete the enrolment process.

When the result is "no admission" it is possible to consult the grounds in the available electronic application. It is possible to raise administrative appeal (recurso de alzada) against AC resolution, within a month since resolution date.

*EHEA: European High Education Area

 

Internal Quality Assurance System (SGIC) of the Degree

 

Management of the SGIC (Acces to ASTUA)  candado

 

Degree monitoring

 

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