Abstract

CRAVIDAO, Fernanda  and  MARUJO, Noémi. La geografía en las carreras superiores de turismo en Portugal. Estud. perspect. tur. [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.2, pp.357-368. ISSN 1851-1732.

The tourism industry, increasingly consolidated, has on the one hand, in the development of transport, increased life expectancy, the increase in schooling, the institutionalization of paid vacations and social mobility, some of the key factors to develop and globalize and on the other hand, has in the territory their main resource/product. Portugal is not oblivious to all these dynamics. On the one hand due to its large landscape and cultural diversity and, on the other hand, for being a destiny more and more sought. It is in this context, that have main scenario the territory, that Portuguese geography begins early to tread paths today systematized and organized. This paper show how geography has opened up new routes and continues to play a key role in the education of tourism in Portugal.

Keywords : Tourism; Tourism geography; Tourism education.

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