Doctorate in Tourism
The Doctoral Programme in Tourism seeks to create a new research programme, under the umbrella of the Bologna Treaty.
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