Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA 2022_23
Subject URBAN TOURISM Code 00514040
Study programme
0514 - GRADUADO EN TURISMO
Descriptors Credit. Type Year Period
6 Compulsory Fourth First
Language
Castellano
Prerequisites
Department GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA
Coordinador
SOMOZA MEDINA , JOSÉ
E-mail jsomm@unileon.es
mpbenp@unileon.es
Lecturers
BENITO DEL POZO , MARÍA PAZ
SOMOZA MEDINA , JOSÉ
Web http://
General description
Tribunales de Revisión
Tribunal titular
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA REGUERA RODRIGUEZ , ANTONIO
Secretario GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA LOPEZ GONZALEZ , ALEJANDRO
Vocal GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA SANCHEZ MUÑOZ , MARIA JESUS
Tribunal suplente
Cargo Departamento Profesor
Presidente GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA GONZALEZ GONZALEZ , MARIA JESUS
Secretario GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA CORTIZO ALVAREZ , JOSE
Vocal GEOGRAFIA Y GEOLOGIA DOMINGUEZ FERNANDEZ , RAQUEL

Competencias
Code  
A16253
A16259
B5071
B5073
B5082
B5086
B5087

Learning aims
Competences
A16253
 B5086
B5087
A16253
 B5082
B5086
A16253
A16259
 B5071
B5086
B5087
A16259
 B5071
B5082
B5087
A16253
 B5073
B5082
B5086
A16253
A16259
 B5071
B5073
A16259
 B5071
B5073
B5087
A16253
A16259
 B5071
B5073
B5082
B5086
B5087

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Introduction to tourism in urban spaces 1. The city: Historical evolution, morphology and structure
2. Urban tourism: basic concepts and main characteristics

Seminar: Analysis of urban maps
Urban tourism resources and modalities 3. Historic centers and tourist activity
4. Trade, leisure complexes and tourism
5. Tourist activity associated with business centers
6. Tourist use of the productive side of the city

Seminar: Analysis of destinations of European urban tourism
Tourism in urban development strategies 7. The tourist image of the city
8. Strategic planning and tourism
9. Tourism in social rehabilitation and the economic recovery of the city. Indicators

Field Work. Guided tour of a tourist city
Guided tours by students in the city of León

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Class hours Hours outside the classroom Total hours
15 60 75
 
40 20 60
0 10 10
 
Lecture 0 0 0
 
Mixed tests 2 0 2
3 0 3
 
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies   ::  
  Description
Lecture

Personalized attention
 
Description

Assessment
  Description Qualification
Seminars:
- Evaluation criteria: quality of the documents presented by the student
- Evaluation procedure: continuous evaluation based on the correction of the documents submitted by the student and the teacher's notes and records.

Fieldwork:
- Evaluation criteria: active participation of the field trip
- Assessment procedure: continuous assessment based on the teacher's records and notes, as well as assesment of a report submitted by the student after the fieldwork. 		Seminars: 15%
Fieldwork: 10 %
Mixed tests Evaluation criteria: knowledge and mastery of the theoretical concepts of the subject
Evaluation procedure: The grading scale will be established on ten points, and the student must obtain five points to pass this part of the subject. 		55 %
Students guided urban tour

- Evaluation criteria: quality of the work presented by the groups of students.
- Evaluation procedure: the evaluation will be structured in two different parts, the first will be based on the document that the students must submit before the guided tour; the second, the exhibition of the tour guided by the students 		15 %
Others Class participation
- Evaluation criteria: active participation
- Evaluation procedure: continuous evaluation based on the teacher's records and annotations		 5%
 
Other comments and second call

In the case of the second call, the following procedure will be followed:

1. Written exam, equivalent to 75% of the final grade, made up of the following parts:

- A first part made up of short-answer questions. It is equivalent to 75% % of the value of the exam.

- A second part with questions related to the practices. It is equivalent to 25% of the value of the exam.

The student must answer each of the parts only if they have not obtained a five in the first call in any of these evaluation sections.

2. 25% of the final grade of the second call will be made up of the evaluation obtained by the student in the individual student work items, field practice and class participation.

In the case of subsequent calls (extraordinary in December) the qualification will correspond entirely to a written test. Obtaining five or more points will be considered as passed.

Sources of information
Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic Vera Rebollo, J. D. (Coord.) (2013), Análisis territorial del turismo y planificación de destinos turísticos, Tirant lo Blanch, Valencia.,
Nel.lo, O. y Muñoz, F. (2004), El proceso de urbanización, Ariel, Barcelona, Romero, J. (Coord), Geografía humana, pp. 250-332
Grupo de trabajo para la investigación de la ECT (2015), El turismo urbano y la cultura. La experiencia europea, Organización Mundial del Turismo, Madrid,

Complementary Moll de Alba Cabot, J., Prats, L. y Coromina, L. (2017) , Análisis del comportamiento del turista de negocios en Barcelona, , Pasos, vol. 15, num. 2, pp. 419-435
González Reverté, F. y Morales Pérez, S. (2009), Ciudades efímeras. Transformando el turismo urbano a través de la producción de eventos, , Editorial UOC, Barcelona
Precedo Ledo, A.; Orosa González, J. J. y Míguez Iglesias, A. (2010), De la planificación estratégica al marketing urbano: hacia la ciudad inmaterial, , Eure, vol. 36, nº 108, pp. 5-27
Pastor Coello, M. (2014), Del deterioro del patrimonio a su puesta en valor e inclusión en la planificación turística: el caso de Valladolid, , Cuadernos de Turismo, nº 34, pp. 213-232
Cavaillès, C. y otros (2016), Los turistas en el centro histórico de Salamanca: tránsito, percepción y desconocimiento, , Cuadernos de Turismo, nº 37, pp. 37-67
Fontan Köhler, A. (2013), Políticas públicas de revitalización urbana y de fomento al ocio, turismo y entretenimiento: creación de recintos urbano-turísticos en Manchester, Inglaterra, , Cuadernos de Turismo, 32, pp. 115-139
González Pérez, J. M. (2015), Políticas urbano-turísticas poscrisis. Desregulación de la práctica urbanística y tematización como estrategias de reconversión de destinos turísticos, , Urbs, vol. 5, nº 2, pp. 143-162
Temes Cordovez, R. (2016), Recuperación del pasado obrero e industrial del barrio de Patraix como oferta al turismo urbano de la ciudad de valencia, , Cuadernos de Turismo, 37, pp. 403-420


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