Fundamentals of Research in Tourism

Basic tourism research, whether applied or for consultancy purposes, involves the knowledge and command of fundamentals, specific skills and methodological tools. This knowledge is varied and comprises from previous exploratory research to the results obtained from the research.

The course Bases of Tourism Research is regarded as the first contact of the Tourism degree students with the academic, professional and business world of tourism research. Given the fact that the so-called science of tourism is a young discipline, engaged in the process of building and developing its own conceptual foundations, this subject plays a major role in introducing students to the specialized knowledge of basic applied research tools and strategies focused on the fields of tourism, culture and territory, food and gastronomy as well as hotel management. In order to achieve this, the learning process provides students with the bases and the crucial tools to deal with any scientific project along their degree, but also and most important, to present the formal and content features seen as essential in any robust tourism research project.

In short, Bases of Tourism Research gives students the necessary knowledge that enables them to deliver and / or read and understand basic research in the field of tourism. Therefore, it offers a comprehensive innovative insight of tourism research which allows students to develop with proper competency any kind of basic tourism research along their university studies and which will culminate in their Final Degree Project, due in their last year of studies.