Characteristics of the study programme

• Syllabus
• Subjects
• Specializations and optional subjects
• External internship
• Final project
• Academic mobility
• Career opportunities
• Specificities

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Syllabus

The bachelor’s degree in Tourism is taught over four academic years, and each year, you must take 60 ECTS, 30 per semester. You will have the chance to choose 60 optional credits from the 240 ECTS spread between the second and fourth years.

The specificity of the syllabus of the bachelor’s degree in Tourism is defined by:

• The opportunity for you to do one of two “intensifications”, scheduled for the fourth year, in the seventh semester, in order to specialize in one of the following   fields: Destination Planning and Management or Tourist Accommodation Management and Direction.
• Compulsory external internships to the value of 24 ECTS scheduled for the third and fourth academic years in order to help you gain access to the professional field.
• The importance of languages in the qualifi cation with a supply of 12 optional credits and 12 ECTS compulsory credits in the third year.

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Subjects

1st year	1st semester	Principles of Economics, Company Management, Fundaments of Analysis in Geography, Basic Statistics, Professional and Scientific Skills
	2nd semester	World Economy, Production Operations and Processes, Spaces and Societies, Introduction to Sociology, Introduction to Law
2nd year	1st semester	Tourism Spaces and Resources, Human Resources Management,Information Techniques for Geography and Tourism, Quantitative Techniques, Optional subjects
	2nd semester	Structure of Tourism Markets, Accounting, Marketing in Tourism,Optional subjects
3rd year	1st semester	Bases of Sustainable Development, Tourism Quality, Qualitative Techniques, Advanced English, Intermediate French
	2nd semester	Financial Management, Innovation in the Tourism Sector, External Internship I, Geography of Tourist Destinations
4th year	1st semester	Specializations/Optional subjects
	2nd semester	External Internship II, Final Project, Optional subjects

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Specializations and optional subjects

• SPECIALIZATION IN PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF DESTINATIONS (30 ECTS) Policies and Public Management of Tourism, Sustainable Management of Tourist Destinations, Programming Tourist Projects, Organization and Management of Tourist Destinations, Tourist Office Management, Tourist Product Design Workshop.

• SPECIALIZATION IN TOURIST ACCOMMODATION MANAGEMENT AND DIRECTION (30 ECTS) Hotel Management, Functional Areas in a Hotel Company, Sales Techniques in the Hotel Business, Customer Services, Management and Production Processes in Catering, Simulated Management of Hotel Companies.

• SPECIALIZATION IN SPATIAL PLANNING AND LOCAL DEVELOPMENT (30 ECTS) Agenda 21 and Strategic Plans, Enviromental Impact Assessment, Instruments for Management of Protected Areas and Landscape, Instruments for Regional Development Planning, Planning Practice of Regional Development, Geography of Europe. The European Union, Geodemography, Spatial Planning Framework, Topics in Geography. 

• SPECIALIZATION IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT (30 ETCS) Mathematics of Financial Operations, Financial Management: Financint, Markets and Financial Assets, Management Accounting, Taxation, Economic and Financial Planning, Analysis of Financial Statements.

• OTHER OPTIONAL SUBJECTS Intermediate English, Recognized University Activities, Interdisciplinary Seminars, Studies within the Mobility Framework Agreement, Beginner’s French, Management and Production Processes in Travel Agencies, Organizing Trips, Contracting in the Tourism Sector, Tourism Transport Operations and Management, Bases of Cultural Tourism, Management of Nautical Tourism, Wine tourism Planning and Management, Tourism Events Management, Bases of Congress Tourism.

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External internship

You will spend a period of your studies doing internships which aim to complete your university training. The compulsory nature of this subject and its contents make it one of the main training axes of the qualifi cation since you will be able to gain professional contact with tourist organizations in the field of activity that you choose, according to the training profile you wish to follow.

The Faculty of Tourism and Geography is highly experienced in handling and planning external internships that guarantee its effectiveness. In this sense the Faculty has the support of over a hundred and fi fty companies and institutions in the different branches of tourism:hotels, travel agencies, public institutions such as tourist boards, town councils, county councils and others. 

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Final project

The aim of this task is for you to demonstrate that you have assimilated the necessary skills and abilities leading to the production, presentation and defense of a compilation or basic initiation to research report or an original, unpublished professional project, applying the suitable methodology.

The content will be assessed, as will the structural correlation and your oral and written communication skills. You will have to show creative and analytical abilities when presenting new results on your chosen topic.

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Academic mobility

• ERASMUS PROGRAMME This allows the academic mobility of students staff within the European Union. Currently, the Faculty of Tourism and Geography has bilateral agreements with universities in Germany, Austria, Croatia, Finland, France, Holland, Italy, Portugal and United Kingdom.

• SICUE PROGRAMME This allows the academic mobility of students within Spanish universities. Currently, the Faculty of Tourism and Geography has bilateral agreements with 14 universities.

• MOU PROGRAMME This allows academic mobility of students in a foreign institution of higher education outside the European Union with which the URV has an agreement.

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Career opportunities

Framed within the fields of: accommodation, catering, intermediation, transport and logistics, planning and management of destinations, products and activities.

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Specificities

• SIMULATED MANAGEMENT OF HOTEL COMPANIES Optional subject which uses the methodology proposed by the Business Simulations for Educational Purposes Programme (SEFED) of the Fundació Inform, which recreates a business’s operations without physically producing any goods or services. It does so in an evironment where there are other businesses with the same characteristics with which the business interacts and trades.

• PORTAVENTURA AWARD The aim of this award is to publicly recognize the excellence of the students doing the bachelor’s degree in Tourism at the Rovira i Virgili University and to help with carrying out a personal development project promoting the values of initiative, competency, leadership, responsibility and commitment.

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