Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Sociology |
Mestrado Universitario en Planificación e Xestión de Destinos e Produtos Turísticos(plan 2016) |
Subjects |
Planning and management of destinations and touristic products of health and thermal |
Contents |
Identifying Data | 2017/18 | |||||||||||||
Subject | Planning and management of destinations and touristic products of health and thermal | Code | 615524015 | |||||||||||
Study programme |
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Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
Official Master's Degree | 2nd four-month period |
First | Optativa | 3 | ||||||||||
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Topic | Sub-topic |
HEALTH AND THERMAL TOURISM | 1. Health tourism and medical tourism. Definitions, concepts, antecedents and current importance. 2. Current Motivations of Medical Tourism and Health. Prevention of disease and health promotion. Healthy lifestyles. Most prevalent chronic pathologies. 3. Types of medical and health tourism centers: hospitals, spas, thalassotherapy centers, spa and water centers, curhoteles. 4. Infrastructure and Equipment of the centers. Hydrotherapy and physical medicine techniques. 5. General planning of a medical and health tourism destination: Water facilities, environmental characteristics of the environment, human resources, specific general characteristics of management of health tourism centers. Legislation. 6. Marketing of health tourism centers 7. Development and current situation of social tourism in Spain. |
COASTAL AND INSULAR TOURISM |
1. Concept and Definitions. Localization factors. 2. Forms of coastal tourist spaces. Analysis and evolution 3. Examples of Coastal Tourism. |
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