PhD in Tourism (TTUR): 2016-17


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Title Description

Candidate profile and admission requirements

Based on the documents submitted by the applicants, the criteria that the Academic Committee will consider for admission and selection of the candidates are:

  • The previous training in tourism of the applicant and, in particular, its relevance to one of the research lines that make up the program (tourist behaviour and demand analysis, Innovation and management of tourism destinations Territorial Planning, Tourism Cultural Heritage).
  • Among others, also will merit favourable professional experience in the field of tourism, the literature on the subject, participation in national competitions and international research and level of accredited language and ITC (20%).
  • The average rating of academic record (40%).
  • The research interests declared by the applicant in the covering letter submitted and, in particular, its relevance to one of the research lines that make up the program (40%).

Once rated the above criteria, the Doctoral inform candidates the decision on their application for admission to the program.

Specialist and Cross-cutting Training Activities

First semester activities:

  • (T1) Ethics applied to the scientific and professional activity
  • (T2) Scientific Communication
  • (T3) Write and publish articles in Social Science
  • (T4) Write and publish articles in English
  • (T5) Acquisition of skills to write a research project (EU-funded)
  • (T6) Searching for information, communication and dissemination of scientific
  • (T7) Business Model Generation

 
 
Indifferent semester activities:

  • (M1) Mobility
  • (M2) Attendance at seminars or conferences for doctoral
  • (M3) Day of the PhD in Tourism
  • (T8) Training methodological
Ethics applied to scientific and professional activity
Target Introduce basic objectives of ethical theory, necessary for responsible management scientific knowledge.
Hours 1 0
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Scientific Communication
Target Besides it is necessary to transfer research to society in multiple ways: articles, scientific communication 2.0, ...
Hours 1 0
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Write and publish articles in Social Science
Target Write and publish articles to disseminate research results. Knowing the characteristics of the main journals indexed.
Hours 1 0
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Write and publish articles in English
Target Learning to write and publish articles in English
Hours 1 0
Requirements Prove English level B2
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Acquisition of skills to write a research project (funded by European funds)
Target Overview of the European Framework Programme. Modes of writing a proposal
Hours 10
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Searching for information, communication and dissemination of scientific
Target They will learn a number of elements, but basic related literature and databases.
Hours 10
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Business Model Generation
Target Will develop a model that treats 9 key points to keep in mind when embarking on a business model
Hours 1 0
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 st semester of each academic year
Year 1 st year
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Mobility
Target Research stays in other centers, attendance at courses, seminars and conferences
Hours 4 0
Requirements None
Mode Temporary
Temporality Throughout the years of doctoral
Year Every year the doctorate
Control Procedure The doctoral recorded in the GREC all courses, seminars and activities, as well as an annual report to the Director of the PhD program
Mobility Total
Attendance at seminars or conferences for doctoral
Target Encourage interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge and experiences
Hours 10
Requirements None
Mode Temporary
Temporality Throughout the doctoral
Year Throughout the doctoral
Control Procedure The doctoral recorded in the GREC all courses, seminars and activities, as well as provide an annual report to the Director of the PhD program
Mobility Total
Doctorate working day in tourism
Target Fostering the exchange of knowledge among doctoral program lines
Hours 5
Requirements None
Mode Intensive and transversal
Temporality 1 time per year
Year All doctoral courses
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students respond to a survey at the end of the course
Mobility Not applicable
Methodological training
Target Annual review of the research plan
Hours 5 0
Requirements None
Mode Throughout the year
Temporality 1 per year
Year Each year the doctorate
Control Procedure Record the student attendance. Students send an annual report to the Director of the PhD program.
Mobility Not applicable

Tutorial Plan

The supervisor is ultimately responsible for the direction of the candidate in research activities leading to the completion of the PhD, consistency and adequacy of the training, the impact and novelty in the subject field of the dissertation and guidance in planning and its relevance, if any, to other projects and activities where the doctoral student enrolls.

The academic committee of the Doctoral Programme will assign a tutor to the applicant (once he or she is admitted). The tutor will be a doctor with accredited research experience and involved in the doctoral programme. Within six months from the first enrolment, the academic committee of the doctorate will assign to every student a thesis supervisor, which may or may not be the same as the tutor.

The direction and supervision of training activities and the doctoral thesis conform the
" Procedures for doctorates of UIB (RD99/2011) "

Academic Committee Members

Coordinator  Miquel Seguí Llinàs
Secretary   Manuel Antonio Calvo Trias
Member   José Angel Torres Lana

General Objectives

The interest of this doctoral program is justified by:

  1. Professional interest, since tourism has become an economic activity, social and territorial cohesion of enormous significance. Also because the rapid changes occurring in the international tourism sector must be adapted to new strategies and expectations International tourism is based not only on the strength of the classic destinations, but also in the potential of the new destinations, especially in Southeast Asia and in the Americas. This requires skilled professionals to meet the challenges of tourism in the XXI century.
  2. Fortress tourism research at the UIB and the University of Girona. UIB and the University of Girona, along with the CSIC and ICRA, constitute the Campus Euro-Mediterranean Tourism and Water. These two universities are two of the main Spanish research and training in tourism, and only in 2011, in the specific field of tourism, both universities participated in nine international R + D + i and 50 national projects, and research contracts with companies and institutions worth 700,000 euros
  3. Guarantee program via external references. Large foreign universities, as British (Oxford, Newcastle, Exeter and Surrey) or U.S. (Stanford, Washington, or Calgary) have doctorates in tourism and the existence of 36 journals indexed on topic Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism demonstrate the great interest to universal level research and training in tourism.

Research Areas

  • Behaviour of tourist / visitor
  • Management and marketing of tourist destinations
  • Impacts of tourism and sustainability
  • Innovation, creation and management of tourist products

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