Syllabus Information

1. General information

The fundamental objectives of the subject are:

• Describe the basic concepts of tourism intermediation.
• Analyze the changes taking place in this sector.

These approaches and goals are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the agenda

2030 of the United Nations ( https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/es/), in such a way that the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides training and competence to contribute to some extent to their achievement:

• Goal 4: Quality Education.
• Goal 5: Gender Equality.
• Goal 10: Reduction of Inequalities

2. Learning results

- Identify, analyze and solve the problems posed by making decisions and playing a determined role in within

of the equipment.

- Be able to solve real-life cases describing some elements of the organizations in which they are organizations

that make it possible to establish a diagnosis as well as to propose solutions.

- Elaborate a synthesis of the contexts described in the readings.

- Solve problems/exercises and case studies.

3. Syllabus

PART I: INTERMEDIATION AND DISTRIBUTION IN THE TOURISM SECTOR

PART II: TRAVEL AGENCIES

PART III: ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS

4. Academic activities

Attendance to theoretical classes: 30 hours

Attendance to practical classes: 30 hours

Attendance to tutorials: 5 hours

Autonomous work of the students: 80 hours

Examinations and presentation of work: 5 hours

5. Assessment system

The student can choose between two modalities:

-Continuous Assessment

Active student participation is required.

     a) Final work (40%). In this work, the content, explanation, presentation, originality and coherence in the exposition of the ideas presented will be valued..

     b) Assessment of theoretical contents (test type) (60%)

-Global assessment

    a) Individual theoretical-practical written test (100%). The student must obtain a minimum of 5 out of 10 in each of the parts.

    b) Students who have opted for the continuous evaluation modality, but have not passed it: written test 60% + final work 40% (the grade of the work done is kept).

Extraordinary call:

Written test following the rules of the previous section of global assessment a).