Estudia

• - Understand the facts and basic mechanisms of economic growth and development
• - Construct a framework for the analysis of competitiveness and its application to the actual tourist Spanish model
• - Understand the general and tourist specific implications of economic, social and cultural processes known as globalisation
• - Analyse the implications of tourist growth, specially in the territory, and the internationalisation

1. Introduction - Growth and economic development: facts and theories - Competitiveness: micro and macro elements - Globalisation

2. Tourism and economic growth - Tourism and economic growth in the world - The Spanish tourist model in the long term - Competitiveness elements in the Spanish tourist model

3. Specific aspects of territorial development and tourism - Economic evaluation of tourism projects - Case study at the local level

4. Case study: The Balearic Islands - Tourism as an economic developer and its historical perspective - Sector interrelations of tourist growth - Future challenges

5. Territorial implications of tourist growth - Territorial planning of tourist growth - The sector/territorial plans - Case study: Catalonia

6. Basic references Bravo, Soledad (2004), “La competitividad del sector turístico”. Boletín Económico del Banco de España. Septiembre. Butler, (1980), “The concept of a tourist area cycle of evolution: Implications for mangement of resources”, Canadian Geographer, núm. 24, pp. 5-12. Cohen, Daniel (2001), Els nostres temps moderns, Edicions La Campana. de Rus, Ginés i Carmelo León (1997), “Economía del turismo. Un panorama” a Revista de Economia Aplicada, núm. 15 (vol. V), pp. 71-109. Exceltur: www.exceltur.org Fayos-Solà, Eduardo (1995), “Política turística: ¿Una visió estiuenca?”, a Revista Econòmica de Catalunya, núm. 28, pp. 67-77. Rifkin, Jeremy (2000), La era del acceso. La revolución de la nueva economía, Ed. Paidós. Sala i Martín, Xavier (2001), Economia liberal per a no liberals i no economistes, Pòrtic i Dèria Editors. Sala i Martín, Xavier (2000), Apuntes de crecimiento económico, Antoni Bosch. Editor. Uriel, Ezequiel (director), Vicente M. Monfort (director), Javier Ferri i Juan Fernández de Guevara (2001), El sector turístico en España, Institut Valencià d’Investigacions Econòmiques, editat per la Caja de Ahorros del Mediterráneo. World Economic Forum (2005), The Global Competitiviness Report 2005-2006, Geneva 2005. See also the World Economic Forum website www.webforum.org World Travel and Tourism Council: www.wttc.org

Activitats d'avaluació:

Students will be evaluated according to their results on the results of three essays. Evaluation criteria will be: ability to correctly join theory and applied perspectives; extent of references looked at; correct answers to the questions formulated; ability of critical valuations; written skills.