La enseñanza del turismo: diseño de rutas urbanas usando los GIS Story Maps

The different degrees on Tourism seek to train experts capable of managing changes and stimulating the necessary improvements to be able to maintain and enhance the dynamic tourism sector. This paper provides the design of a teaching activity for students of tourism degree. With it, it is intended that students, through collaborative work methodology and through the use of geospatial technologies, especially the GIS Story Map, acquire essential competencies in their training and are capable of creating a tourist product according to the characteristics of the destination. The didactic experience consists of creating an original and innovative tourist route in Madrid. This way, a collaborative map and a series of individually presented routes are obtained that are co-evaluated by the students themselves. The results of a satisfaction survey about the activity answered by the participants are also presented. It appears that the activity has been considered positive, since the students claim to have acquired skills of great interest in their training as future professionals, while feeling motivated. We conclude by pointing out that it is necessary to include this type of initiative in university education and that this methodology can be extrapolated to other subjects and places.Los Grados en Turismo buscan formar expertos capaces de gestionar cambios e impulsar las mejoras necesarias que permitan mantener, potenciar el dinámico sector turístico. Este artículo propone el diseño de una actividad docente para estudiantes del Grado en Turismo. Con ella se pretende que los estudiantes, a través de una metodología de trabajo colaborativo y mediante el uso de las geotecnologías, especialmente de los GIS Story Map, adquieran habilidades esenciales en su formación y sean capaces de crear un producto turístico acorde a las características del destino. La experiencia didáctica consiste en crear una ruta turística original e innovadora en Madrid. Se obtiene así un mapa colaborativo y una serie de rutas presentadas de manera individual que son coevaluadas por los propios estudiantes. También se presentan los resultados de una encuesta de satisfacción con la actividad respondida por los participantes. Se desprende que la actividad es positiva, ya que los estudiantes afirman adquirir habilidades de gran interés en su formación como futuros profesionales, al tiempo que se sienten motivados. Concluimos señalando que es necesario incluir este tipo de iniciativas en la enseñanza universitaria y que esta metodología es extrapolable a otras materias y lugares.This research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) Transformations of the historic urban landscape induced by tourism: contradictions and controversies, government and local governance (CSO2016-75470-R)

Definiendo un enfoque: miradas y reflexiones sobre lo transnacional.

Reseña de: Saunier, Pierre-Yves, Transnational History: theory and history, Hampshire y Nueva York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2013, 208 p

Social Vulnerability and Touristification of Historic Centers

Historic centers have su ered di erent processes of neglect, occupation, segregation, gentrification, and touristification as a result of changes in demand and policies. Currently, they are going through a homogenization process motivated by tourist pressure, which is causing the expulsion of the local population; this is a common topic of interest for media and political agendas, which requires scientific analysis. This research aims at identifying the winning and the losing tourist groups in the historic center of Seville. It is structured in two parts: a conceptual one based on the bibliographic review with which one wants to know how the current society responds to tourist pressure through defining and characterizing the processes of substitution of uses and inhabitants, and another empirical one in which the analysis of statistical indicators (demographic, economic, and residential) treated with Geographic Information System (GIS) allows us to measure the degree of existing vulnerability and analyze social and spatial e ects caused by the tourism in Sevill

Tourist guides and free tours: A controversial relationship

Like other tourism subsectors, guided tours have been affected by the emergence of the sharing economy. Although this subsector of tourism is not as well known, it constitutes an interesting scenario for studying these new business models and it is also generating debate. This article analyses the uniqueness of the tourist guide services provided through online platforms under the name of free tours. The study includes a bibliographical revision and it is carried out from a qualitative methodology based on a survey conducted among tourist guide professionals and in-depth interviews. The study analyses the point of view of professionals in the guiding sector from 11 European cities subject to common regulations. It aims to determine how they are affected by the free tours as well as to assess their relationship with this new activity, a complex relationship with many controversial elements in terms of labour, tax and organisation. It will be shown that the free tours respond to the trends of contemporary society but are not an expression of the collaborative consumption among equals, but rather an effective marketing strategy.‘Transformations of the historical urban landscape induced by tourism: contradictions and controversies, government and local governance’ (CSO2016-75470-R), which forms part of the National Programme for Research, Development and Innovation aimed at the Challenges of Society. Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. PR: Manuel de la Calle and María Velasco. Period of execution: 2017–2020 and ‘Analysis of planning processes applied to smart cities and tourist destinations. Balance and methodological proposal for tourist spaces: Smart Tourism Planning’ (CSO2017-82592-R), which forms part of the National Programme for Research, Development and Innovation aimed at the Challenges of Society. Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. PR: Josep Ivars and Fernando Vera. Period of execution: 2018–2020

USING A POINT SYSTEM IN THE MANAGEMENT OF WAITING LISTS: THE CASE OF CATARACTS

The objective of this study is to explore the possibility of applying a point system as a guide to the management of waiting lists in National Health Systems. Following recent contributions in the axiomatic theory of justice, the ethical properties of a point system are illustrated. In addition, we present the results of an experiment whose objective was to develop a point system for cataract extraction, based on social preferences. The results of the experiment have shown that the analytic methods used here, of focus groups, interview-administered questionnaires, conjoint analysis, and rank-ordered logit, can be usefully combined to determine the total priority score for each patient.Point System; Priority Criteria; Waiting Lists; Cataract.

The scientific knowledge of Spanish High-Speed Rail and its relationship with tourism through bibliographic analysis

Se analiza la producción científica dedicada al estudio de los principales aspectos territoriales y socioeconómicos de la red de la alta velocidad española, con el objetivo de comprender su evolución y las temáticas abordadas. Los resultados, estructurados por disciplinas, avalan la hipótesis de que en España la relación entre el AVE y el turismo ha sido todavía poco estudiada, pese a su interés científico y político. Por ello, se presenta como una importante línea de investigación que ha de abordar la definición de una serie de preguntas, que deben ser resueltas en colaboración entre expertos de diferentes áreas que aporten distintas perspectivas y metodologías.The scientific production, which focused on the study of the main territorial and socioeconomic issues of the Spanish High-speed rail network, is analyzed in depth. This research aims to understand its evolution and designated topics. The results, classified by disciplines, support the hypothesis that in Spain the relationship between High-speed rail and tourism has yet to be thoroughly studied, despite its scientific and political interest. For this reason, future research must tackle a variety of questions which must be addressed through a collaboration of experts from different areas that contribute to different perspectives and methodologies

Análisis y tendencias del turismo en Segovia

XII Coloquio de Geografía del Turismo, Ocio y Recreación de la Asociación de Geógrafos Españoles. Colmenarejo (Madrid), del 17 al 19 de junio de 2010.El presente texto se inserta dentro del proyecto "Dinámicas recientes y estrategias de intervención en destinos patrimoniales" (2006-2010). Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia. Plan Nacional de I+D+L Referencia: SEJ2006-10898/GEOG. Años 2006-2010

Planificación y Gestión Turística en destinos patrimoniales: el caso del Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial (Comunidad de Madrid)

This article suggests like primary goal to know the protagonists, the strategies and the planning of the tourist management that are being carried out in a destiny of noticeable patrimonial nature as it is the Real Site of San Lorenzo de El Escorial. It is a place of great interest, because of its patrimonial value, its legal particularities and the fact that is located in the area of tourist influence of Madrid; these three reasons and the presence of a great number of competing destinies will imply a series of problems that will be only solved with the development of a balanced management which should guarantee its sustainability.Este artículo plantea como objetivo principal conocer los protagonistas y las estrategias de la planificación y gestión turística que se están llevando a cabo en un destino de marcado carácter patrimonial como es el Real Sitio de San Lorenzo de El Escorial. Este lugar presenta un gran interés, tanto por su valor patrimonial, como por sus particularidades legales, y por el hecho de estar en el área de influencia turística de Madrid; motivos los tres, que junto con la competencia motivada por el aumento de destinos culturales, van a implicar una serie de problemas que sólo serán resueltos mediante el desarrollo de una gestión equilibrada y que garantice la sostenibilidad

The relationship between average annual and quarter-on-quarter GDP growth rates: implications for projections and macroeconomic analysis

Artículo de revistaThe average annual growth rate of GDP can be formulated algebraically as a weighted average of the quarter-on-quarter growth rates of the preceding and the current year. Sometimes this can give rise to counterintuitive results and misinterpretations of how the economy is evolving. For example, a given sequence of GDP growth rates, in quarter-on-quarter terms, in the current year, may give rise to very different average annual rates depending on the trajectory of GDP in the preceding year. Also, with given quarter-on-quarter growth figures for the four quarters of a particular year, average GDP growth will be higher, the earlier in the year that the largest quarteron-quarter increases occur. In the context of macroeconomic projections, analysis tends to focus on average annual GDP growth rates, insofar as they offer a summarised version of the outlook. However, it should be noted that revisions to the current year’s projections with a particular sign (for example, upwards) may reflect changes of two types: first, the publication of new, more favourable National Accounts data for past quarters; and second, a downward revision to growth prospects for the remaining quarters of the year. Therefore, it would be a mistake to conclude from the mere observation of an upward revision to average annual growth that the economic outlook has improved