Geography and Tourism

The subject of Geography of Tourism aims at providing a territorial interpretation of tourism. It highlights the existing relations between tourism and territory, both as regards the most relevant regions worldwide, the territorial resources on which the tourism activity is based and it also describes the shape of major tourism categories. Due to the wide range of contents contained in this subject, it is structured in three modules.

The main objectives of the first module are to place the spatial distribution of tourism flows both in origin and destination at international level as well as to identify the factors that influence the location of the tourism activity. As any other activity, tourism generates impacts which will be analyzed in this module. The second module explains the role of the territorial resources in determining their tourist potential and it states the processes by which these resources are enhanced for tourism purposes. Together with the theory, descriptive cases will be presented. The third module will allow students to learn about the dynamic processes in tourism spaces, their variety, implementation, the various interpretative theories explaining their evolution as well as the major types of tourism (coastal, urban, nature, mountain, rural).