PhD in Tourism
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
Spanish, Galician
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2025
TUITION FEES
EUR 200 / per year
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Introduction
Tourism has been consolidated as one of the most relevant sectors from the economic and social point of view, not only in Spain but also worldwide. In the context of disciplines of a social nature, tourism is an interdisciplinary object of knowledge that covers a wide range of activities carried out by private companies and public institutions, with an impact on the lives of people, both residents and visitors. This doctoral program brings together two singularities that make it especially attractive: the participation of 12 Spanish universities with extensive experience in tourism studies, creating synergies and stimuli for the student body; and the interdisciplinary nature with the active involvement of numerous areas of knowledge that contribute to enriching the Program through a wide range of lines of research.
Lines of investigation
- Planning and management of tourist destinations, tourism and local society
- Economic analysis of the tourism sector
- Management and innovation in tourism organizations
- tourism and heritage
- Intelligence in the tourism field. ICTs and data analysis
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Curriculum
Formation activities
- Tools for information management and recovery E3121A01
- Scientific communication models E3121A02
- Knowledge transfer models E3121A03
- Seminars and research workshops in tourism E3121A04
- Joint work seminars between doctoral students in tourism E3121A05
- Presentation of scientific communications at national and international conferences dedicated to aspects of tourism E3121A06
- Mobility and stays in universities and higher research centers in the research topic E3121A07
Training complements
- Strategic management of tourism organizations P3012101
- Commercial address of tourism companies P3012103
- Promotion of urban tourism P3012104
- Economic impact of urban tourism P3012107
- International trends in urban destinations P3012108
- Urban heritage management: The historic city P3012110
- Urban heritage management: The historic city P3012110
- Behavior of the urban tourist P3012203
- Market research: Analysis of urban tourism P3012205
- Research methodology: Cartography applied to tourism P3012207
- Research methodology in tourism business management P3012208
Program Outcome
- Contribute to the training of doctors and researchers in tourism to promote the sustainable growth of a fundamental activity for our social and economic environment.
- Promote research to be able to carry out efficient information management that allows adaptation of management to the profile of the tourist consumer.
- Develop analysis and research techniques to adapt to the evolution of the information society.
- Promote cooperation between universities and the mobility of students and teachers.
- Collaborate on innovation and competitiveness in the field of tourism.
- Develop a complete and complex academic curriculum model that is committed to the multidisciplinary nature of tourism training at the university.
- Adapt the level of university tourism studies to that existing in the European Union and other surrounding countries.
- Achieve the standardization of higher tourism studies with respect to what exists in other economic and professional sectors.
- Develop specialization profiles in areas that allow taking into account the innovation needs required by business and tourist destination management.