Duration

TBA

Starting Date

October

Tuition Fee

€2,325 per year

Location

Aveiro, Portugal

About the programme

The Doctoral Programme in Tourism from Universidade de Aveiro seeks to create a new research programme, under the umbrella of the Bologna Treaty, and pursues the following objectives:

  • to create critical and advanced thinking in tourism;
  • to contribute for the redesigning of the University of Aveiro tourism school, by re-launching the foundations of the present tourism area and help to creating a revigorated tourism school;
  • to contribute for the creation of a more dynamic tourism research pole, capable of articulating the theoretical and scientific knowledge produced in the UA with the needs of the tourism industry.

A holder of a doctoral degree in Tourism should be able to:

  • Identify problems or opportunities for improvement and propose solutions through theories, techniques and
  • tools in the domain of management, economics, and planning in Tourism;
  • Develop learning abilities and research skills consistent with the autonomous development of scientific work
  • in Tourism with applied relevance for the sector;
  • Conciliate the Tourism management and planning process with the requirements of an adequate territory
  • organisation and an effective socio-economic development of destination areas;
  • Promote innovation and the creation of new markets and products in Tourism;
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate the conclusions of the conducted scientific work in international
  • scientific meetings, thinking ahead to the creation of, and integration in international networks.

Courses included

  • Medical Geology
  • Internet Marketing
  • Cultural Tourism Themes
  • Territory, Competitiveness and Innovation
  • Tourism And Territory
  • Data Analysis
  • Tourism Economics

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