Superior

Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

Historical context and evolution of the practices and concepts of leisure, free time, tourism and recreation: its focus from the geographical point of view. Characters and forms of organisation of the area resulting from tourism and leisure activities: supply and demand; tourist organisation and intervention of public powers; reading on different scales (world, European, Spanish, autonomous, local). Territorial, economical and socio-cultural repercussions of tourist activities: spatial and environmental incidence, tourism and regional development, the image of tourism, new forms of tourist behaviour (tourism of important events, congresses, alternative, rural, spa...). The civilisation of leisure, the role of tourism in the world today.