Tourism and gender

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION
Gender studies is a discipline that has gained strength, scope, and a growing body of literature in the last decades. Its unique perspective when analysing social, economic, and environmental contexts has led to gender studies being an open door to interrogating the current power structures. For this reason, tourism needs to be seen in this new light. In this subject, we will learn the fundamentals of gender studies and see how they can be applied to tourism. From this scope, we will aim to generate alternatives to the present tourism dynamics.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. To know and identify the new tendencies in the practice of tourist activities.
2. Develop skills related to innovation and creativity for the creation of tourism products and services.

ACADEMIC CONTENTS
1. Introduction to gender perspective
1.1. Feminism and feminisms
1.2. Intersectionality
2. Feminist research
3. Gender perspective and tourism
3.1. Gender perspective on those who travel
3.2. Gender perspective on tourism discourse
3.3. Gender perspective and the local community
]3.4. LGBT tourism

LEARNING METHODOLOGY
The learning methodologies planned for the subject combine a number of processes being the most remarkable the cognitive methods related to the comprehension of the principles of tourism and the global tourism system as well as the inclusion of a set of skills, mainly technical.
The activities and methodologies -both group and individual- designed for this subject are the following:
• Lectures
• Case studies
• Guided discussions
• Practical exercises
• Problem-based learning

ASSESSMENT SYSTEM