Tourism
The program of Bachelor in Tourism trains professionals with ethics, socially and environmentally responsable with comprehensive knowledge in operations, tourism planning and business tourism to contribute with dinamization of the industry to meet the needs of society and contribute to the change of the production model of the country. Also train comprehensive professionals with relevant knowledge to optimize, plan and evaluate the efficient use of scarce resources, promoting the sustainable development, generating value and reducing uncertainty in the decision making process in the public and private sector.
* Undergraduate tuition/fees:
The Constitution of the Republic of Ecuador in its Article 356, among other principles, establishes that third-level public higher education will be tuition/fees free. Zero cost education is linked to the academic responsibility of the students.
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Our eligibility application has been accepted by ACBSP, and we are currently in the candidate process for our proposed program.
For more information about the ACBSP accreditation standards, visit: https://acbsp.org/
Contact Cristina Yoong Párraga, cryoong@espol.edu.ec, for more information.
Candidates profile: Candidates must be observants, sensible, proactive, persistant and with basic knowledge of social sciences, geography of the country.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
- Collaborate with the local development through the application of tourism planning tools.
- Generate solutions associated to the business tourism to contribute to the economical development of the country.
- Design activities and touristic products according to the needs of the tourists attached to ethics.
- Acquire new abilities, technical and scientific knowledge, along their labor life, considering the technological advances applied to the tourism area.
STUDENT OUTCOMES
- Apply technical tourism planning tools in natural and urban spaces for the sustainable management of tourism.
- Manage fundamental information and communication technologies (ICT) for operation, planning, and business tourism.
- Have the ability to design tourism products in accordance with current trends and responding to local social demands.
- Have technical skills to plan and coordinate events, accommodation and catering services in the field of business tourism.
- Recognize the need to value and preserve the natural and cultural heritage of Ecuador
First Year
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In this course, students apply the Design Thinking methodology to identify, analyze real-life problems or needs, to design innovative solutions. Students work in multidisciplinary teams to present solution proposals that add value to customers/users from private companies, public organizations and non-profit organizations.
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Mathematics is a basic course aimed at the training of professionals in Archeology, Nutrition and Tourism. His program comprises four units: logic and sets, real numbers, and systems of equations, real variable functions, and plane and space geometry. Each unit analyzes the theoretical foundations and their application in problem solving.
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This basic and general education subject presents grammatical structures to produce a simple paragraph based on a writing program. Additionally, it allows the identification of a specific argument in oral and written communication. It also considers learners’ personal opinions about different topics related to social, academic, and professional aspects. It includes the necessary vocabulary to make comparisons between present and past, books or movies description, creation of simple students’ profile, opinions about inventions, formal apologies and tell past events.
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WIth this first semester course from the BA track, studentes will be able to understand how the exact and human sciences relate to geography, how space is addressed from differente subjectivities, and the discourses associated with them. Fundamental issues in Physical and Human Geography, together with tools and methods from Geographical Information Systems (GIS) will be studied.
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This course will study the evolution of the forms of historical knowledge through time, as well as its epistemological and methodological problems and the innovations of contemporary historiography in terms of inclusion of subjects of study and related methodological requirements. It will aim at reconstructing the historical path of Ethnohistory as a field of study within the framework of the approach of Anthropology to History, characterizing specific developments in the study of Andean societies, different research strategies, construction of new categories of analysis and methodologies (selection, analysis and articulation of written, oral and archaeological sources).
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This course examines how the history of our species has been constructed, from our origins, passing through the fundamental moments that have conditioned today's society, with its different interpretations. This subject contributes to the formation of the epistemological foundations on which Anthropology and Archaeology are based.
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This subject contributes to the initial professional training of the student of the tourism career. It focuses on basic legal knowledge fundamental to entrepreneurship and the management of sustainable tourism activities in Ecuador that are acquired through case studies and exercises oriented towards professional practice. In particular, the needs for the professional future of: framing tourism planning and carrying out of tourist activities in a culture of respect for human rights; obtain and update registrations, permits, licenses tourist and environmental; understand and interpret contracts frequently used in tourism.
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Marketing Fundamentals is a mid-level subject of the Business Administration career, to which the student arrives with the ability to understand the consumer from a microeconomic perspective, thus also knowing the forces of the environment that influence their consumption decisions. Therefore, to complement the existing knowledge of the students, this course focuses on the consumer's bond with the company, from a relational perspective. For which, the process for the generation of value is studied, for the consumer and for the company, through actions and strategies of product, price, place, and promotion. The focus of the subject is theoretical-practical, with emphasis on the analysis of local business problems through the use of cases and market data.
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This basic level professional training subject sets out the main definitions that make up tourist geography, provides students with a broader view of the world tourism from the global concepts of human geography and within this, the geography economical. This allows to analyze the human-space interaction for tourism purposes, using digital and traditional tools to study the large emitting and receiving poles of tourism; the use of geographic resources for tourism purposes; the impact of the weather and climate change in tourism; human mobility; the global geopolitical associations that rule human mobility today.
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This initial level course addresses the study of tourism from two perspectives: first, as a contemporary social manifestation and second as an object of research within an academic context. A critical understanding of the main social, economic and environmental problems related to the practice of human mobility is fostered through the study and discussion of the main contemporary debates around the tourism phenomenon. The course analises the history and basic concepts of tourism, the approaches to the study of tourism, as well as its impacts and effects in societies and the environment.
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This subject of basic formation and general education presents the grammatical structures for the production of an academic paragraph, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of specific arguments in oral and written communication, considering the production of one's own criteria on different topics of a social, academic or professional nature. The necessary vocabulary is also applied to refer to the different forms of communication, share work experiences and the use of digitl technology, tell short stories about interpersoanl relationship and personalities, and comment on the future of the environment.
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This initial level course studies the decision-making process of economic agents in conditions of scarcity. It also studies the market processes and fluctuations in economic activity. Topics on microeconomics related to goods, market and prices are addressed. Macroeconomic topics such as the analysis of macroeconomic indicators and national income are also analyzed. Finally, the course concludes with a synthesis of the main problems of the economy.
Second Year
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The course presents students with strategies to solve common problems in various professional fields through the design and implementation of solutions based on the use of a programming language. It covers the basic principles so that the student can read and write programs; emphasizing the design and analysis of algorithms. In addition, it introduces students to the use of development and debugging tools.
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In this subject, we study the development of the academic prosumer profile of the students, which should be consolidated throughout each individual's life, based on the processing of complex, holistic, and critical thinking. We aim to foster understanding and the production of academic knowledge through rigorous analysis of realities and readings from various academic/scientific sources.
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This course develops knowledge related to accounting, measuring their effects on the financial statements in order to make business decisions. nitially, the antecedents and fundamentals that support accounting are studied under the regulatory framework. Subsequently, the accounting process is carried out including transaction taxes, legal labor obligations, so that the information obtained is the basis for the preparation of the financial statements of a company. Finally, the impact of: inventory and property, plant and equipment, on business results is evaluated.
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This course is introductory and is aimed at third-level students in initial training within their undergraduate career.The units of the course emphasize the importance of administration at all management levels of an organization, provide for a general analysis of the administrative process with a cyclical approach and specific analysis of planning, organization, direction and control functions within this process. Ethical aspects, corporate social responsibility and the environment in which organizations operate are also considered to support managerial decision-making.
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This basic level vocational training course addresses theoretical approaches to identity, culture and heritage as tools to identify the Ecuadorian natural and cultural heritage. Additionally, international regulations are studied to understand actions in the field of safeguarding and asset management of Ecuador. Finally, an analysis is made of the various debates around various topics related to natural and cultural heritage.
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This subject of basic instruction and general education presents grammatical topics for the elaboration of an outline and a structured composition, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. In addition, it allows the identification of arguments in oral and written communication on contemporary and academic topics. Additionally, appropriate vocabulary is applied to discuss issues related to different cultures, places where we live, everyday news, entertainment media, and past and future opportunities.
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This course is aimed at students of level 300 with the purpose of developing competencies in operations management of manufacturing and service companies. In its contents, linear programming models are developed for decision-making, management of quality management, and quality control. Basic aspects for decision-making, with risk and uncertainty, product and service design, and simulation models applied to inventory management in companies are covered.
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Food and Beverage is an intermediate-level professional subject that studies different tools used in this area´s administration; the course focuses on the established policies for managing inventory control and procurement, also applies instruments to analyze food and beverage expenses, identifies the main cooking techniques for national and international culinary preparations, provides knowledge to manage the service area, in addition to understanding the operation of a professional kitchen.
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This subject covers the theory of territorial and tourist planning, as well as the socio-political context in which it unfolds. Additionally, land use planning and its relationship with the physical planning of tourism, governance and its applicability are addressed, as well as geographic information systems (GIS) as instruments for territorial analysis.
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The Statistics course provides students with the basic knowledge that will help them convert a data set into useful information for making decisions in scenarios of uncertainty. It encompasses different methods of tabulation and data analysis, the introduction of the concept of probability as a measure of uncertainty and mathematical models of discrete and continuous random variables. Additionally, analysis techniques such as regression and hypothesis testing of population parameters are included.
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This course studies the variation of the money value over time, applying the capitalization financial laws and discount at simple and compound interestrates, which allows to find the equivalences between equity and analysis of cash flows, to evaluate saving alternatives, investments and credit to help in the decisionmaking process of personal financial decisions. Financial evaluation techniques such as present value, future value, annual value, and return rates will be applied, as well as the Cost/Benefit ratio for social projects. Being one of the introductory finance courses taught at ESPOL, it is aimed for students in the initial levels.
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This subject of basic formation and general education, presents the grammar structures to produce a persuasive essay, through the transversal development of the writing programme. In addition, it allows students to identify specific arguments in the oral and written communication, as well as, to express their own opinions about different topics of social, academic, or professional fields. It also includes the necessary vocabulary to stablish a conversation, narrate situations of their environment, activities to reach their goals, analyze cause and effect and personal and professional opportunities.
Third Year
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This transversal course addresses the conditions required to innovate and the process associated with developing an innovation from an entrepreneurial point of view. Subsequently, topics such as the identification of opportunities, value creation, and prototyping and validation of products/services proposals are reviewed, as well as the elements of the business toghether with tools for the evaluation of a budget/financial management plan and the interpretation of financial data. Considerations that are essential for the feasibility and adoption of an innovation. Finally, entrepreneurial competences and process associated with the development and adoption of an innovation are studied.
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This advanced course provides concepts, tools and methods of scientific research applicable to the social sciences in general and, in particular, to tourism as an area of study. During the course, students will be guided in the approach of a research problem, the design and implementation of data collection and analysis methods, as well as the communication of results through the writing of a scientific article.
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This intermediate level professional training course addresses tourism planning methods understood from a systemic, territorial and socio-political perspective. The course addresses how to articulate development objectives with the planning and implementation process, depending on the socio-political context, the planning scale and the type of space (urban or natural). Finally, tools for analysis and management of urban and natural landscapes are applied that respond to principles of cooperation, citizen participation, transparency, sustainability, use of technology, interculturality and equity.
Description:
This basic training and general education subject presents the necessary structures for the production of a persuasive essay, through the development of the writing program in a transversal way. It also allows the identification of specific arguments both in oral and written communication, in order to issue students' criteria on social, academic, or professional issues. They also apply the necessary vocabulary to engage in discussions about choices to make, changes in daily life and home, financial problems as well as moral dilemmas and achievements in the course of their personal, student, and professional lives.
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This subject contributes to the professional training of the student by presenting an analysis tool that allows obtaining reliable information from the market for the design of solutions within an organization. Market research is exposed as a systematic and objective process that begins with the definition of the research problem, continues with the formulation of the research design, the data collection, the preparation and analysis of data, to end with the elaboration and presentation of a management report.
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This transversal training course for all students of the institution has five chapters. It introduces the key principles of sustainability and the path to sustainable development. Addresses ecological principles by deepen into biodiversity, ecosystems, human population and ecosystem services. Study the fundamentals of renewable and non-renewable resources as well as the alternatives for sustainable use. Analyzes environmental quality specifically in the air, water and soil components, delving into issues such as climate change, eutrophication and deforestation. Finally, it emphasizes on the economic axis with topics such as circular economy and on the social axis on topics such as governance and urban planning.
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This course of intermediate level for professional training, introduce to the financial scope. Approach topics of the analysis of financial statements and financial ratios. In addition, there are sections dedicated to study financial planning, leverage analysis, capital structure and some ways to manage liquidity of the company. Finally, analyses the methods of company valuation by cash flow discount.
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This advanced level professional training subject provides the student with key notions of environmental conservation and management and how these are intrinsically related to tourist activity, in order to be able to make a rational use of resources and therefore an effective use. Aspects related to the environment are addressed, from its beginnings to avant-garde issues, and how these can be applied both in tourist destinations and tourist companies.
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This upper intermediate level course focuses on the understanding of the services marketing with emphasis on the tourism sector, through the review of key topics such as consumer behavior, marketing mix and the development of customer realtionships. Also reviews the management of the marketing in tourism destinations.
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This subject is based on a deep knowledge of the technical and legal reality in which the tourism intermediation activity is developed, focusing on the critical and comprehensive analysis of the use of national heritage, the tourism system and market trends for the design of tourist packages and products and travel planning and operation that respond to the current reality of demand; with an ethical vision based on the values and standards that are contemplated in the provision of tourism services.
Fourth Year
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This subject establishes a technical vision on the functions of mediation, advice, and production, which are developed both within travel agencies, as well as in their relationship with the commercial environment and regulatory legal framework; It addresses issues related to the operation of tourism intermediation, the management of global distribution systems and their comprehensive management, which constitute a business field of application for the future tourism professional.
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This advanced level professional training subject provides the student with the necessary tools to understand the fundamentals of sustainability in tourism, contrasting practice with reality from a holistic point of view. Topics such as introduction, initiatives in sustainable tourism, alternatives for sustainable tourism and measurement of sustainability in tourist destinations are covered.
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This advanced level professional formation subject presents about the legal regulations and the identification of the different departments in accommodation establishments. It focuses on the learning and application of fundamental principles and tools of hotel operation and management. Study the efficient management of reservation software (CRS) for accommodation establishments.
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This subject is of professional training for students of the Bachelor's degrees in Tourism and Business Administration. The subject introduces the participant systematically and integrally in all aspects of project management, as well as fostering successful behavioral skills to present, lead, and derive benefits from projects. Project management is an interdisciplinary activity that must be aligned with the organizational strategy and therefore identify the different roles, approaches and change management needed to achieve the desired objectives in its implementation.
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This advanced professional level course contributes to develop of techniques and tools for efficient management and planning of events, considering these phases: pre-event, develop and evaluation. Also, evaluate the impacts of meeting tourism and dissemination strategies.
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In this last academic unit before his/her graduation, the student carries out a project to demonstrate professional skills acquired throughout the academic curriculum. Student engages in processes of creativity and planning as part of a professional design experience on the field. In the first part of the unit, the client/user/audience's needs are identified, the problem/opportunity is defined, data is collected, and critical factors are analyzed to build a point of view. In the second part of the unit, alternative solutions are created. Regulations and restrictions of end-users are considered. The project concludes with the design and / or implementation of the feasible solution or prototype, analysis and validation of results.
Additional
ARTS, SPORTS AND LANGUAGES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
HUMANITIES ELECTIVE COURSES
1 credits - 1.9 ECTS
SELECTED ELECTIVE COURSE
3 credits - 5.8 ECTS
At the completion of the degree students are prepared to work in areas of Business Tourism, Tour Operation, Tourism Planning with social and environmental conscience in local and international context.
Occupational Profile
Our graduates are able to work in the following areas:
- Event management
- Business Tourism
- Tour Operation
- Tourism Planning
- Tour guiding
- Hospitality industry
- Transportation and logistics, reponsible for movility and customer service
- Cruises
- Bar and restaurants
- Consulting
- Develop an strategic plan
- Planning and management of tourist destinations
- Travel Agencies
- Finish the curriculum
- Accomplish a minimun of internship hours.
- Deliver requiered documentation for the university record.
The Capstone Project is a culminating requirement for graduation. These projects provide students with the experience of applying acquired knowledge and skills to the needs of society, with a focus on sustainability.
The IDEAR Fair showcases all Capstone projects, offering students a valuable opportunity to showcase their work and hone soft skills such as communication and teamwork. It is also a space for students to network with potential clients and future employers.
Explore all of the Capstone projects completed by the Bachelor in Tourism program.
DID YOU KNOW?
Tourism is considered the passport of peace, it contributes to the development of the territories, it is also an activity that is considered as “the rain that wets everyone” as long as it has adequate planning, taking into account that there is a wide diversity of intervention areas that allow the economy to be energized and improve the quality of life in the town.
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