Degree in Tourism
240 credits - Faculty of Tourism
| Duration | 4 years / 240 credits |
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| Level MECES | 2 |
| Spots for new students |
30 places for the academic year 2024-25
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| Teaching method | In-Person Classes |
| Price |
Public price per credit, 1st registration: ¤13.4, ¤30.05, ¤65.06, ¤90.15 for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th enrolment respectively.
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Total cost
of the first enrolment in the first year:
¤845.19
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(*) Prices for the academic year: 2024-25
(**) Total cost of the first enrolment in the first year, including taxes, for EU
members under 28 years of age without any
special condition:
The Degree in Tourism aims to provide students with specific training in the most important economic sector in the Balearic Islands: tourism.
- The degree is taught at the university headquarters in Minorca, partly by local lecturers and partly by lecturers based in Palma. Students in Minorca are taught at the Alaior campus lecture halls, either in-person by a locally-based lecturer or via videoconference by a lecturer in Palma. Moreover, Palma-based lecturers travel to the Minorca site four times per semester (running four seminars lasting three hours each—representing almost a quarter of the teaching hours on a six-ECTS subject)
- Videoconference classes are run from specially equipped lecture halls in Palma: classes use real-time, bidirectional videoconferencing connected to the Minorca classrooms via a large bandwidth that provides high quality image and sound. The technology enables students in Alaior to participate fully in lectures and easily communicate with their classmates and lecturers in Palma
- The Faculty of Tourism runs the degree in Minorca with support from the Campus Extens project. This project has enjoyed twenty successful years working with different degree programmes at the Minorca and Ibiza headquarters (Business Science and Administration, Law, Nursing, Primary and Early Childhood Education, etc.). The methodology in place includes videoconferencing and trips by Palma-based lecturers to the Minorca and Ibiza sites, the use of a digital classroom (mostly on Moodle) providing learning resources, different communication tools, individual and/or group work activities, etc.
What skills will you acquire?
Students will receive training that combines theoretical aspects and their practical application. The Degree in Tourism is characterised by its cross-cutting nature, which is reflected by its combination of core training in tourism business management and economics of tourism with high quality language training (English, and French and/or German) and other disciplines, such as Law, Geography and Cultural Heritage Management.
What profile should you have?
The Degree in Tourism is aimed at students who generally meet the following criteria:
- An interest in tourism (both from a business and a social standpoint)
- An ability for teamwork
- Motivation and concern for environmental issues, changing landscapes and socioeconomic imbalances
- A knowledge and interest in languages
- Creativity
- Self-starter
- An ability to make decisions and solve problems
What career opportunities will you have?
Graduates in Tourism will have developed the necessary skills to carry out their professional duties responsibly and ethically; they will be well-acquainted with the fundamentals of the tourism industry in all areas to do with the management of companies; they will be able to solve problems, defend their arguments, compile information and critically analyse territorial, social, financial and legal aspects related to tourism; and they will posses a high level of different languages, English in particular.
Therefore, graduates will be able to pursue careers in:
- Accommodation companies: hotels and hotel chains, boutique hotels, holiday rental companies, etc.
- Tourism marketing agencies: online travel agencies, tour operators, bed banks, incoming agencies, etc.
- Event and MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Exhibitions) planning companies.
- Companies that apply new technologies to the tourism industry: channel manager, GDS, CRM, XML, etc.
- Air and land transport companies (airlines, car rental agencies, etc.) and cruise ship companies.
- Public-sector agencies and bodies: town halls, entities dedicated to promoting tourism, etc.
Travel and Learn
The Faculty of Tourism has three double degree agreements at international level - with the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences (Germany), with the Ningbo University (China), and with the Worms University of Applied Sciences (Germany) - which enable students to obtain two official qualifications in a total of 5 academic years.
In addition, the UIB offers students the chance to take part in different exchange and mobility programmes:
- Exchange and mobility programmes to do part of your studies at another university in Spain, in a EU country or in a non-EU country, or to undertake practical placements at companies in the European Union, managed by the International Relations Office.
- Volunteer work and/or placements within the framework of university cooperation for development programmes, to be undertaken in least developed countries, through the development cooperation programmes managed by the Cooperation for Development and Solidarity Office (OCDS).
High-quality official study
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Social and Legal Sciences
Economics, Business Administration and Management, Marketing, Trade, Accounting and
Tourism.