International Tourism

Code: SOC07807L

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: Tourism

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Presentation

These unit aims provide students with generic knowledge of the tourist activity into the world-wide scale and understanding the tourist phenomena and its interaction with the space.

Sustainable Development Goals

4. Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

Learning Goals

These unit aims provide students with generic knowledge of the tourist activity into the world-wide scale and understanding the tourist phenomena and its interaction with the space. Characterizing, analyzing and understanding the main tourist flows will be the specific focus of that generic approach. Mainly, its intended that students develop several abilities to endowing them with knowledge: O1 to identify the main factors that are responsible for the present space distribution and its evolution and identify trends; O2 Recognize the main international organizations and their activities in the different fields of activity; O3 Characterize the major receiving and sending regions in terms of international tourism; Recognize the data collection tools and use them to analyze the information associated with the characterization of international tourist flows; O4 Identify and analyze the characteristics of the main issuing markets for Portugal.

1. International Tourism
1.1. Introductory considerations
1.2. Location factors of tourist activity
1.3. Tourism trends

2. International tourism organizations
3.1. Description
3.2. Policies, initiatives and projects

3. Spatial distribution of tourist activity worldwide
3.1. Methodologies associated with data analysis
3.2. Characterization of tourist flows
3.2.1. Inbound tourism - Inbound Tourism
3.2.2. Outbound tourism - Outbound Tourism
3.3. Characterization and trends of world tourist activity by regions
3.3.1. Asia and Pacific
3.3.2. Africa
3.3.3. Americas
3.3.4. Europe
3.3.5. middle East

4. Tourism Markets for Portugal
4.1. Portuguese tourism in the international panorama
4.2. Main markets

Teaching Methods

The subjects will be boarded in the theoretician-practical lessons, not only using an expositive method, but also using the active methods, fostering reflection, dialogue and debate, so that students develop the ability to assimilate content in a more autonomous and participatory way. The reflections and debates are based on an integrative and cumulative view of all the subjects covered during the classes. Practical exercises will be carried out by the Student to understand some more technical content. The Student will be encouraged to identify an exploration of sources of information complementary to those indicated in this Program.

Assessment

Continuous evaluation: Individual written exam (40%) + practical work (40%) + assignments (15%) + participation (5%).
Exams evaluation: 1 individual written test (100%)