Transport, mobility and management of tourism flows in urban destinations

- To Understand how Transport and Tourism interact.

- To Understand the conceptual foundations of Transport, Mobility and applied to tourism flows.

- To learn the main policies of Transport and Mobility in urban tourism destinations.

- To learn the methods of analysis of tourism flows in urban destinations.

- To understand the social, economic and environmental impacts of tourism-related mobilities.

- Transport, mobility and flows: basic conceptualization.

- Transport for Tourism: history and current trends

- Transport and mobility policies and their importance in the strategy of urban destinations.

- Tourism-related mobility and its environmental, social and urban impacts.

- Flow analysis. Information, sign-posting and mobility.

Basic Bibliography. Page, S.J. (2005): Transport and Tourism. Global perspectives. Harlow: Pearson.

Page, S; Ge, Y (2009) Transportation and Tourism: A Symbiotic Relationship?. In Jamal, T; Robinson, M (eds). The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Studies. SAGE Publications, Pp 371-395.

Complementary Bibliography.

Ceron, J.P; Dubois, G (2007). Limits to Tourism? A Backcasting scenario or Suistanable Tourism Mobility in 2050. Tourism and Hospitality planning & Development, 4 (3), 191-209.

Guiver, J., Lumsdon, L., Weston, R. (2008): "Traffic Reduction at visitor attractions: the case of Hadrian's Wall", Journal of Transport Geography, no. 16, pp. 142-150.

Gross, S; Klemmer, L (2014). Introduction to Tourism Transport. CABI Publications

Hall, M.G (2008). Tourism Planning. Policies, Processes and Relationships. Pearson, Prentice Hall.

Lumsdon, L; Page, S.J (2004). Tourism and Transport: Issues and Agenda for the New Millenium. Elsevier

Reid, D.G (2003). Tourism, Globalization and Development. Responsible Tourism Planning. Pluto Press.

Schiefelbusch, M. et al. (2007): "Transport and tourism: roadmap to Integrated Planning and Assessing Integrated travel Developing chains", Journal of Transport Geography, no. 15, pp. 94-103.

Williams, V., Noland, R. and Toumi, R. (2002). “Reducing the Climate Change Impacts of Aviation by Restricting Cruise Altitudes.” Transportation Research D, 7:451–464.

Learning outcomes and competences the student acquires:

Master program’ Competences acquired in this course:
- G1 To define urban tourism and tourism enterprises’ management.
- G2 To Apply acquired knowledge to the reality of the tourism sector.
- G5 To communicate information, ideas, problems and proposed solutions to specialists and non specialists.
- E6 To identify new trends in the management of urban destinations.
- E7 To Define the principles of sustainable management.
- E9 To describe a tourism destination as a system.
- E10. To expalin the policies that affect urban destination.

Cross-curricular skills:
- T1 To Apply ethical decision making.
- T2. To Demonstrate critical reasoning
- T3 To analyze and synthesize information.
- T4 To work in diverse teams.
- T5 To have creative and entrepreneurial ideas.

Learning outcomes: After completing this course, students will be able to:

- To analyze the importance of transport, mobility and flow generation in relation to tourism. - To define which are the governance and transport policies of strategic importance for urban tourism destinations. - To analyze tourist flows in relation to the supply of transport modes, information and signposting existing urban tourism destinations. - To explain the main measures to plan and manage tourist flows in urban destinations.

- To identify which are the main impacts of tourism mobility and the different strategies to mitage them.

Master classes. Development of theoretical content and concepts related to the subjects.

Interactive classes. Application of theoretical content to the analysis of specific problems or # situations. They include activities with an active participation of students such as seminars, discussion of practical cases, simulations, problem solving, defense of reports, presentation of work.

Tutorials. Voluntary and arranged meetings of the teacher with the students, individually or in small groups.

The evaluation is continuous and in agreement and these criteria will be followed:

1. 40%: Exam of theoretical contents
2. 30%: Active participation and debate in classes and at the exit, including brief presentations. This percentage will take into account class attendance, which is compulsory / compulsory.
3 30%: Course work consisting of a critical presentation focused on a topic to be chosen from a list provided by the teacher during the first two weeks of classes. The bibliographic list and references within the text must be correct. To average between the three sections, there can only be one failure. Both are two or three suspended sections, as if the average does not allow to pass, it is necessary to face the second evaluation opportunity. At the second opportunity, it will be necessary to repeat only those sections that are not passed. Therefore, the same criteria as in the first opportunity will be followed.
4. To the students with the dispensation granted by the Center, following the one set out in Instruction No. 1/2017 of the General Secretariat of the USC, deliveries equivalent to those of the students without dispensation will be required and the exam will be mandatory .
5. Within the first component, a field trip is planned. For those students without a dispensation granted, it is a regular teaching-learning activity. However, if someone is unable to attend, an alternate delivery will be allowed.

Notice about plagiarism: In cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the one contained in the Regulations for the Evaluation of the Academic Performance of Students and the Review of Qualifications will apply.

In the classroom

Lecture Hours: 9 hours.
Seminar/Interactive lessons:12 hours.
Small group tutoring: 3 hours.
Classroom Assessment: 3 hours.
Total classroom attendance: 27 hours.

Personal work hours Individual self-study or group: 22 hours.
Writing exercises, conclusions or other work: 7 hours.
Recommended reading, library or GIS analysis: 12 hours.
Preparation of oral presentations, debates or similar 7 hours.
Total hours of personal work: 48 hours.

During the development of the subject, it is recommended to track the daily press and news specifically related to the topic of the course

Notice about plagiarism: For cases of fraudulent completion of exercises or tests, the provisions contained in the Regulations for the Evaluation of Student Academic Performance and the Review of Qualifications will apply.