Bachelor Degree in Tourism

First year 60 ECTS

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  First Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Economy applied to the tourism sector
• 6 ECTS | The Company and its Environment
• 6 ECTS | Tourism resources
• 6 ECTS | Modern Languages I: German I or French I
• 6 ECTS | Structure of the tourism offer
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  Second Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Technology applied to the company
• 6 ECTS | Modern Languages II: German II or French II
• 6 ECTS | Trends in tourism demand
• 6 ECTS | Financial Accounting
• 6 ECTS | Development of Professional Competences I

Second year 60 ECTS

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  First Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Applied Statistics
• 6 ECTS | Cultural heritage I
• 6 ECTS | Planning of tourist destinations
• 6 ECTS | Modern Languages III: German III or French III
• 6 ECTS | Modern Languages IV: French I or Chinese I
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  Second Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Cultural Heritage II
• 6 ECTS | Market research in tourism
• 6 ECTS | Modern languages V: Advanced English
• 6 ECTS | Modern Languages VI: French II or Chinese II
• 6 ECTS | Development of Professional Competences II

Third year 60 ECTS

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  First Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Modern languages VII: French III or Chinese III
• 6 ECTS | Evaluation of tourism impacts
• 6 ECTS | Management of people and equipment in tourism
• 6 ECTS | Analytical and Management Accounting
• 6 ECTS | Strategic Management
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  Second Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Tourism marketing
• 6 ECTS | Innovation in tourism products
• 6 ECTS | Internationalization in the tourism sector
• 6 ECTS | Entrepreneurship in tourism
• 6 ECTS | Eval. of the Development of Skills in the Company

Fourth year 60 ECTS

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  First Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | | Legal environment in tourism
• 6 ECTS | New Technologies in the Tourism Field
• 6 ECTS | E-commerce in the tourism sector
• 6 ECTS | Elective 1
  • 6 ECTS | Operations and Processes in the Hotel Sector
  • 6 ECTS | Distribution in the Tourism Sector
  • 6 ECTS | Management of tourist destinations
  • 6 ECTS | Business and event tourism
• 6 ECTS | Elective 2
  • 6 ECTS | Business and event tourism
  • 6 ECTS | Operations and processes in tourist distribution
  • 6 ECTS | Tourism policy
  • 6 ECTS | Event design and organization
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  Second Semester 30 ECTS
• 6 ECTS | Financial management in tourism companies
• 6 ECTS | Elective 3
  • 6 ECTS | Hotel Management
  • 6 ECTS | Management of travel agencies
  • 6 ECTS | Tourism development models
  • 6 ECTS | Protocol applied to events
• 6 ECTS | Elective 4
  • 6 ECTS | Creation and management of hotel projects
  • 6 ECTS | Creation and management of travel agency projects
  • 6 ECTS | Destination marketing
  • 6 ECTS | Marketing and communication of events
• 6 ECTS | Development of Professional Competencies III
• 6 ECTS | Final Research Project

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Development of Professional Competences 18 ECTS

Final Research Project 6 ECTS

Career Opportunities

The Department of Tourism, through the School of Social Sciences of Nebrija University, has collaboration agreements with some of the most prestigious international hotel chains, such as NH Hoteles, Meliá Hotels and Husa, as well as tourist companies such as Rumbo, Nuba Tours and Rusticae or in institutions such as the World Tourism Organization or the Institute of Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE).

Together with the Advisory Commission of Tourism Companies (CAET), Nebrija University has created the “La Empresa Apuesta por ti” Program (The Company Believes in You), through which the big companies in the tourism sector in Spain offer you interesting training scholarships that will help you pay for your studies with us.

Some of the professions for graduates are:

• Head of tourism projects in large cities
• Director of destination promotion campaign
• Leisure spaces manager
• Head of the animation department
• Professional organizer of conferences, events and incentives
• Conference technician
• Person responsible for booking
• Public relations manager
• Travel consultant
• Travel agent
• Department of tourism operations
• Expert in tourist mobility
• Head of the reservations department
• Tourism consultant

Employability recognized in the Rankings

The commitment of Nebrija University to the academic requirement, training in leading companies and institutions, innovation in multidisciplinary programs and international projection, places the University in the top positions of the most important rankings.

The International Ranking QS Stars awards Nebrija University the maximum score in the quality and satisfaction of students in teaching, employability of the graduates and the internationalization of the institution.

The national rankings also recognize Nebrija University as the first Spanish university in teaching and second in employability, highlighting its performance in research, knowledge transfer and internationalization.

Development of Professional Skills

Nebrija University, in accordance with the aims proposed in "The Nebrija Contract", directs its efforts to turn its students into valuable professionals in the labor market. To this end, the Nebrija Institute of Professional Skills (INCP) was created, which leads the training in professional skills, employability, managerial skills, coaching, personal branding and any other subject related to professional, personal and social development.

The activity of the Competence Institute covers all the activity segments of the university. On the one hand, it holds three subjects that are distributed throughout the university degree and that enable the student to effectively manage their work, proactively develop personal and professional self-improvement processes and properly guide their first steps in the labor world.

In addition, the INCP incorporates coaching modules for employability in different postgraduate programs of the university, and designs and carries out customized in-company training actions for different projects in companies and institutions.

The methodology of the actions, which are completely personalized and eminently practical, provides the participant with an adjusted analysis of their personal characteristics and their fit with the demands of the working world and the company, and offers an individualized development plan that is complemented with practical actions in which you must learn to solve real-life situations.

• ACS Foundation
• CSIC
• SAVIA AMADEUS
• Institute of Spanish Tourism Quality (ICTE)
• Professional Association of Conferences (OPC)
• Spanish Federation of Hotels (FEHR)
• Hotel Technological Institute
• Spanish Association of Madrid Hotels (AEHM)
• Spanish Federation of Travel Agency Associations (FEAAV)

• International Tourism Fair (FITUR)
• Viajes el Corte Inglés
• Europcar
• IBERIA
• Viajes Lepanto
• Unión de Agencias de Viaje (UNAV)
• Madrid Visión
• Grupo NEXO
• ASEHS
• Spanish Confederation of Hotels and Tourist Accommodation (CEHAT)

The Spanish hotel sector has a high impact on the creation of GDP, close to 7%, which shows its influence, and its impact, on the creation of wealth and the generation and maintenance of employment. Said reasoning, and the current crisis situation suffered by the economic system, have motivated Nebrija University and the Spanish Federation of Hotels (FEHR) have come together in wanting to create a Confidence Indicator that, on a quarterly basis, allows the companies of the sector to project their impression or business appreciation on the compared evolution in relation to the previous and subsequent quarters.

The final purpose of Nebrija University and the Spanish Federation of Hotels (FEHR) is to present successive results of the survey in the territorial dimension of the autonomous communities, and based on the structure of sectors of 55 and 56 group of the CNAE.
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