instagram Twitter linkedin facebook youtube telegram Play store

  • Studies Admission
  • 1

Doctorate Program in Tourism

Student attention:    Student Help Box     Suggestions, complaints and congratulations mailbox

Request More Information: International Doctoral School

The teaching languages ​​are Spanish and English. The minimum level required for English is B2.
PROGRAM MANAGERS MAY REQUEST AN INTERVIEW WITH CANDIDATES TO DETERMINE THE LEVEL BEFORE ADMISSION TO THE PROGRAM

Presentation, objectives and competences

PRESENTATION

The proposed Interuniversity Doctorate in Tourism program arises from the coordination and cooperation between research teams with a track record in social-scientific knowledge of tourism and in accredited training programs, including currently existing doctoral programs in some of the twelve participating universities. : Antonio Nebrija University, the Complutense University of Madrid, the University of Alicante, the University of Cadiz, the University of Extremadura, the University of La Laguna, the University of Malaga, the University of Santiago de Compostela, the University of Seville, the University of Vigo, the Rey Juan Carlos University and the Open University of Catalonia.

The name of the official title corresponds to Doctor in Tourism from these twelve universities (https://doctoradoturismo.es/).

This cooperation framework is based on the Interuniversity Network of Postgraduate Studies in Tourism (REDINTUR), made up of 28 Universities with postgraduate studies in Tourism, which has been qualified in the National Tourism Plan 2012-2015 of the Ministry of Energy, Industry and Tourism, within the Talent and Entrepreneurship section as a strength, highlighting its operation and training programs in Tourism.

  • Branch of knowledge:
    • ISCED 1 Social and Behavioral Sciences.
    • ISCED 2 Travel, tourism and leisure

OBJECTIVES

Under this framework, the research lines of the different groups of the different Universities previously specified have been united and coordinated, with the aim of collaborating and promoting training and research in Tourism in Spain. Broadly speaking, we can indicate the objectives and commitments that have been set:

  • Contribute to the training of doctors and researchers in Tourism to promote the sustainable growth of a key activity in our social and economic environment.
  • Promote research to be able to carry out efficient management of information that allows management to be adapted to the profile of the tourist consumer.
  • Develop analysis and research techniques for their adaptation to the evolution of the information society.
  • Promote cooperation between Universities and the mobility of students and teaching staff.
  • Collaborate in innovation and competitiveness in the field of tourism.
  • Develop a complete and complex academic curriculum model that is committed to the multidisciplinary nature of tourism training within the University.
  • Full adaptation of the level of university tourism studies in our country to that existing within the European Union and other neighboring countries, culminating the process begun with integration into the university system in 1996.
  • Achieve the standardization of higher studies in tourism with that corresponding to other areas of training in other economic and professional sectors.
  • Development of specialization profiles in areas that make it possible to take into account the needs for innovation required by business and tourist destination management.

COMPETENCES

In accordance with the provisions of Royal Decree 99/2011, obtaining a doctorate degree must provide high professional training in various fields, especially those that require creativity and innovation. Once the training period is over, the doctors must have acquired, at least, the following capacities and personal skills:

BASIC AND GENERAL BASIC COMPETENCES

  • Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
  • Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial research or creation process.
  • Ability to contribute to expanding the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the modes and languages ​​commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural progress within a knowledge-based society.

PERSONAL CAPABILITIES AND SKILLS

  • Get along in contexts in which there is little specific information.
  • Find the key questions that need to be answered to solve a complex problem
  • Design, create, develop and undertake new and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • Work both as a team and autonomously in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • Integrate knowledge, deal with complexity and make judgments with limited information.
  • The criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.

Coordination and academic commission

Responsible at the Rey Juan Carlos University: Mrs. María Teresa Villacé Molinero

Mobile Phone: 670-79-23-68

Vice-Head of the Doctoral Program: Mrs. Ana Isabel Muñoz Mazón

Representative in the Academic Commission: Mrs. María Teresa Villacé Molinero

Academic Commission:

President: Antonio Guevara Plaza (UMA)

Secretary: Jose Antonio Fraiz Brea (UVIGO)

Vowels:

Jose Fernando Vera Rebollo (UA)

Juan Arturo Rubio Arostegui (NEBRIJA)

Manuel Arana Jimenez (UCA)

Maria Garcia Hernandez (UCM)

Jose Manuel Hernandez Mogollon (UEX)

Moises Simancas Cruz (ULL)

Julie Wilson (UOC)

Xose Manuel Santos Solla (USC)

María Teresa Villacé Molinero (URJC)

Angeles Gallego Agueda (US)

Research lines and teaching staff

The Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Tourism is structured around various lines of research organized into 5 lines of research: 

Line 1: Planning and management of tourist destinations, tourism and local society  

  • Territorial and sector planning of tourism
  • Management of tourist destinations
  • Tourism and local development
  • Local society and impacts of tourism
  • Tourism planning of the coastal space
  • Methodologies of sociological analysis and participation applied to tourism
  • Typologies and tourist products. Development and valorization
  • Community tourism, development and cooperation
  • Sustainability of tourist destinations

Faculty:

Projects: 

Name of the research project

Reference

Funding entity

 Amount awarded

Start dates-End date of the project

Identifier of the teaching staff participating as IP of the Project

Number of researchers involved in the program

Note: only if you are a DP faculty member (not a guest or collaborator)

Planning and management of tourist destinations, tourism and local society

LINE A. CP2301

Region of Madrid

  

01/11/2024-31/10/26

Miriam Menchero Sánchez

  

 

Line 2: Economic analysis of the tourism sector

  • Economic structure of tourism
  • tourist communication
  • Transport, mobility and accessibility of tourism
  • tourism policy
  • Sharing economy and tourism

Faculty:

Projects:

Name of the research project

Reference

Funding entity

 Amount awarded

Start dates-End date of the project

Identifier of the teaching staff participating as IP of the Project

Number of researchers involved in the program

Note: only if you are a DP faculty member (not a guest or collaborator)

The impact of education on entrepreneurship: personal and institutional factors

V1502

Region of Madrid

53.377,94

01/11/2024-31/10/27

Thais González Torres

  

 

Line 3: Management and Innovation in Tourism Organizations

  • Quality management, environmental management and sustainability in tourism companies
  • Innovation and entrepreneurship in tourism
  • Internationalization of tourism companies
  • Human capital and tourism
  • Marketing and research of tourism markets
  • Turistic marketing
  • Competitive strategy and location of tourism companies
  • Gender, business and tourism
  • Strategic management of tourism companies
  • Typology and legal regime of tourism companies
  • Market law, tourist contracting and electronic commerce related to tourism
  • Corporate and market finance in tourism

Faculty:

Projects:

Name of the research project

Reference

Funding entity

 Amount awarded

Start dates-End date of the project

Identifier of the teaching staff participating as IP of the Project

Number of researchers involved in the program

Note: only if you are a DP faculty member (not a guest or collaborator)

Curricula innovation in climate-smart urban development based on green and energy efficiency with the non-academic sector

101081724

European commission

€719.889,00

01/01/2023 hasta 31/12/2025

Carmen de Pablos Heir

2

Corporate strategies for internationalization, innovation, and social responsibility in response to the challenge of sustainability in a global context.

PID2021-124641NB-I00

State Research Agency

114.950,00€

1/09/2022 hasta 31/08/2025

Javier Forcadell Martinez

3

Business strategies and innovation for sustainable growth

PHS-2024/PH-HUM-294. 2025

Region of Madrid

  

01/01/25 until 31/12/2027

Javier Forcadell Martinez

1

PURPLEGAIN_ Fundamentals and applications of purple bacteria biotechnology for resource recovery from waste COST ACTION

CA 21146

European commission

-

10/10/2022 hasta 09/10/2026

Fernando Garcia Muina

3

Consolidation of a strategy of excellence, leadership and eligibility for Horizon Europe

GPE2022-001026

State Research Agency

  

 01/01/23 hasta 31/12/2025

Fernando Garcia Muina

1

Organizational innovation in healthcare management: a proposal for the evolution of the relational coordination model with dialogical practices

V1565

Region of Madrid

2.738

01/01/2025-31/12/25

Carmen de Pablos Heir

  

Agreement between the Community of Madrid (CM) and the URJC for the granting of a direct subsidy for the Promotion and Development of Research and Transfer

CP2303-06

Region of Madrid

30.326,40

01/01/2025-31/12/26

Carmen de Pablos Heir

  

Acceleration of Technology Spin-out Companies

V1609

Madrid City Council

90.000

31/12/2024-30/11/2025

Carmen de Pablos Heir

  

Support in the management and development of the Madrid City Council's business incubators. Moratalaz Business Incubator

V1005

Madrid City Council

787.200

31/07/2021-31/07/2025

Carmen de Pablos Heir

  

 

Line 4: Tourism and Heritage

  • Tourist valorization of cultural heritage
  • Cultural heritage, museums and local development
  • Heritage and urban tourism
  • Heritage tourism systems

Faculty:

Projects:

Name of the research project

Reference

Funding entity

 Amount awarded

Start dates-End date of the project

Identifier of the teaching staff participating as IP of the Project

Number of researchers involved in the program

Note: only if you are a DP faculty member (not a guest or collaborator)

False prescribers, misleading health advertising, and consumer awareness.

PID2020-112781RB-I00

State Research Agency

53.724,00€

01/09/2021 hasta 31/08/2025

Salvador Perello Oliver

5

Destructive Exploitation of Cultural Objects and Professional/Public Education for sustainable heritage management. JPI CH CHSE Cultural Heritage Society and Ethics 2022

PCI2023-143383

Ministry of Science and Innovation

183.920,00€

01/03/2023 hasta 28/02/2026

Ana Vico Belmonte

2

Royal and courtly Madrid. (MARCO).

 PHS-2024/PH-HUM-290. 2025

Region of Madrid

  

01/01/25 31/12/28

Felix Labradro

1

Virtual archive for research on epigraphic heritage in the Community of Madrid: Ten centuries of history (6th-16th centuries).(HASTHGAR).

PHS-2024/PH-HUM-45. 2025.

the Region of Madrid.

  

01/01/25 until
 31/12/28

Pablo Ozcariz

  

Digitization of memory, women, fear and control in rural areas during the dictatorship

100-MD-2024

MINISTRY OF TERRITORIAL POLICY AND DEMOCRATIC MEMORY

  

09/12/24

Until 08/12/25

Felipe Rodolfo Debasa Navalporto

  

 

Line 5: Intelligence in the tourism sector. ICTs and data analysis

  • Data analysis applied to tourism. Big data, Geodata and Data Mining
  • Yield & Revenue Management
  • Digitization of processes and experiences

Faculty:

Projects:

Name of the research project

Reference

Funding entity

 Amount awarded

Start dates-End date of the project

Identifier of the teaching staff participating as IP of the Project

Number of researchers involved in the program

Note: only if you are a DP faculty member (not a guest or collaborator)

The challenge of managing Next Generation EU funds: threats and weaknesses of the Spanish institutional framework.

PID2020-115869RB-I00

State Research Agency

67.639,00€

01/09/2021 hasta 31/08/2025

Jesus Palomo Martinez

1

Credit risk and opacity: impact on financial markets.

PID2020-113367RB-I00/ INTERNAL: V1010

R&D&I Project

€19.154,30

1/9/2021 - 31/8/2025

Maria del Pilar Abad Romero

  

American Madrid. Shared heritage and tourist routes in the Community of Madrid, 2th-XNUMXth centuries (AmerMadXNUMX-CM).

PHS-2024/PH-HUM-184

General Directorate of Research and Technological Innovation of the Community of Madrid

€292.000,00

01/01/2025-31/12/2027

Crossbow Heel Pillar

4

Intrinsic and dynamic varieties: New algorithms, prototype upselling system for sustainable tourism, and sudden cardiac death.

PID2022-140786NB-C31

State Research Agency

98.250,00€

01/09/2023 hasta 31/08/2026

Crossbow Heel Pillar

3

Interuniversity Program on Culture of Legality (GGSDG).

PHS-2024/PH-HUM-65. 2025.

the Region of Madrid.

  

01/01/25 hasta 31/12/28

Jesús Palomo Martinez

  

Access and admission

General requirements International Doctoral School

General requirements International Doctoral School

Program Admission Criteria

In general, to access an official doctoral program it will be necessary to be in possession of the official Spanish Bachelor's degrees, or equivalent, and University Master's degrees, or equivalent, provided that at least 300 ECTS credits have been passed in the combination of these two teachings.

Likewise, those who are in any of the cases included in article 6.2 of RD99/2011 will be able to access. It should be noted that students in possession of any of the following titles: Tourism Companies and Activities Technician (TEAT), Diploma in Tourism Companies and Activities (DEAT) and Diploma in Tourism who, in addition, accredit the overcoming of at least 60 ECTS master's credits, will also be able to access Doctorate studies.  

It is established as a general admission criterion the presentation of a doctoral thesis project proposal, related to any of the existing research teams in the Doctoral Program, in which the objectives are described, justification for ascribing to a line of research, methodology, expected results and resources necessary for its preparation, proposed tutor and thesis director , and report of the proposed thesis supervisor.

The Commission will assess the affinity of the proposal with the Doctoral Program, the viability and scientific interest, and the availability of research staff with permanent links to the requested University and accredited research experience, to tutor the thesis in the line of research selected by the candidate.

Specific admission criteria will be weighted as follows:

- Academic record of the degree of access to the doctoral program.

30%.

- Academic record of the master's degree for access to the doctoral program.

40%.

- The existence of letters of introduction by university professors or other research institutions, who have direct knowledge of the capacity and competence of the applicant.

5%

- Research experience or other merits related to research.

20%.

- Accredited knowledge of a foreign language commonly used in the scientific community to which the doctoral program belongs. In accordance with the European Framework of Reference for Languages, the minimum level required will be B2

5%

Access Profile

The recommended academic profile for students who want to access this doctoral program is that of Graduates in related studies with knowledge of Tourism, from the field of economics, business, sociology and geography. In particular, it is oriented towards Degrees in Tourism, Economics, Business Administration and Management, Geography and Sociology and similar qualifications in skills to those listed. Regarding the Official Master's degree, the Program is especially aimed at graduates in the Official Master's Degree in Tourism Management and Planning, or equivalent, taught by the universities that make up REDINTUR.

Students who do not meet the access profile, coming from master's degrees in the branches of "Social and Legal Sciences" and "Arts and Humanities", unrelated to training in tourism, will necessarily have to take specific training supplements. For those students who have completed master's degrees in the "Engineering and Architecture" branch, the Academic Committee of the doctorate will rule on the training complements that will be necessary to take from among those indicated.

In terms of skills, the recommended entry profile refers to students with the acquired ability to understand and solve problems in the field of companies, organizations and tourist destinations, as well as the ability to evaluate the behavior of economic agents in this sector of activity. Likewise, knowledge of data analysis and planning tools and techniques will be very useful for carrying out the programme.

In relation to the languages ​​appropriate to the entry profile, these will be Spanish or English, with a minimum required level of B2, in accordance with the European Framework of Reference for Languages.

Specific training complement

Students who access the doctoral program from master's degrees that give direct access, it will not be necessary for them to do any type of training complements, unless they want to take them voluntarily.

In the event that the student body lacks the complete prior training required in the program, after admission and enrollment, it will be necessary for them to take specific training supplements. In this way, the Academic Commission of the program, in attention to the degree of access, must decide, following a report from the tutor, which training complements are appropriate for each student, for which subjects from the Degree in Tourism and/or of the official Master's degrees that give direct access to this doctoral programme. In any case, these supplements will be mandatory for those students who access the program with only a graduate degree of 300 ECTS or more, which does not include research credits in their study plan.

In order for the training supplements to be adequate and consistent with the entry profile, the scientific field and the objectives of the program, the offer of subjects to be taken as supplements must meet the needs of the program and will correspond to the following specific fields of knowledge:

  • Planning and management of tourist destinations
  • Tourism and local society
  • Economic analysis of the tourism sector
  • Management and innovation in tourism organization
  • Turistic patrimony
  • Intelligence in the tourism field

As each university deals with an offer of specific subjects within these areas, the contents, skills, objectives and evaluation will be those that appear in the teaching guide of the corresponding subject.

Completion of these complements will be simultaneous to enrollment in academic tutorship in the program. In this case, the student body must enroll in these supplements and, in addition, formalize the enrollment of academic guardianship in the program. However, the training supplements must be passed within a maximum period of three consecutive semesters for full-time students and five for part-time students. If this is not done, the student will be dropped from the program.

In order to provide said complements, the universities of the program will offer the subjects according to the contents indicated. (up to 18 credits), from undergraduate subjects and official master's degrees, to cover the training aspects that allow students to follow the Doctorate Program.

Under the guidance of the thesis supervisor, it is recommended to take courses from the Official Master's Degree in International Tourism Management, specifically those from the second semester. The selection of courses will be based on the research topic of the doctoral thesis, and any of the master's program modules may be chosen.

MODULE II: MANAGEMENT OF TOURISM COMPANIES (OPTIONAL)

619309 International Marketing Management 2nd Optional 3

619310 International Tourism Project Consulting 2nd Optional 3

 619313 Creation of tourism businesses: the business plan 2nd Optional 3

619314 Fundamentals of Revenue Management 2nd Optional 3

MODULE III: PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF TOURIST DESTINATIONS (UNESCO module) 

 619317 Sustainable tourism in protected natural areas 2nd Optional 3

619318 Planning and management of tourist destinations 2nd Optional 3

619319 Case studies on World Heritage sites and cities (various seminars) 2nd Optional 6

Full and part time students

The duration of the doctoral studies will be one maximum of three years, full time, to count from the admission of the doctoral student to the program until the presentation of the doctoral thesis. If after the aforementioned period of three years the application for deposit of the thesis has not been submitted, the Academic Committee may authorize the extension of this period for one more year, which could exceptionally be extended for another additional year if the Commission deemed it appropriate and justifiable in cases of force majeure.

The Interuniversity Doctorate Program in Tourism contemplates the possibility of carrying out Doctorate studies part time, as long as the program's Academic Commission authorizes it. In this case such studies may have a maximum duration of five years from admission to the program to the presentation of the doctoral thesis.

In the case of part-time studies, the extension may be authorized for two more years, which, exceptionally, could also be extended for another additional year.

Part-time doctoral student is understood as one who performs a job or activity (whether paid or not) that prevents them from devoting more than 60% of their time to obtaining the doctorate. In the event that any of the participating universities includes a special reason for acquiring part-time student status, said regulations will apply. To apply for part-time admission to the Doctoral Program, the candidate must prove this situation, which must be evaluated and authorized by the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Program.

Admission criteria and procedures for part-time students will be the same as those contemplated for full-time students.

The modality chosen by each student will be included in the commitment model signed by the doctoral student, the director and the tutor, or it will be included in the student's file, and may be changed if circumstances so require.

In this case, the doctoral student must request to change from the full-time to part-time modality. Said request must be directed and justified before the academic commission responsible for the program, which will decide on the origin of accessing the request. The changes must be authorized by all the parties that sign the documentary supervision commitment and will be included in said document.

A permanent change in the working conditions or occupation of a part-time doctoral student that no longer prevents him from completing the doctorate full-time must be communicated to the tutor, who will proceed with the procedures for the doctoral student's change of modality. Likewise, the doctoral student may request temporary withdrawal from the program for a maximum period of one year, extendable for up to one more year. Said request must be directed and justified before the academic commission responsible for the program, which will decide on the origin of accessing the request.

Pre-registration, number of places, deadlines and price

NUMBER OF PLACES: 15

DOCUMENTATION TO SUBMIT AND FORMS OF DELIVERY

https://www.urjc.es/universidad/facultades/escuela-internacional-de-doctorado/314-acceso-admision-y-matricula#documentacion-a-presentar-y-formas-de-entrega

PRESCRIPTION REQUEST

https://www.urjc.es/universidad/facultades/escuela-internacional-de-doctorado/314-acceso-admision-y-matricula#solicitud-de-preinscripcion-en-programas-de-doctorado

PRESCRIPTION PERIODS

https://www.urjc.es/universidad/facultades/escuela-internacional-de-doctorado/314-acceso-admision-y-matricula#plazos-de-preinscripcion-y-matricula

PRICES

https://www.urjc.es/universidad/facultades/escuela-internacional-de-doctorado/314-acceso-admision-y-matricula#precios-publicos

Activities and Evaluation

The URJC follows the guidelines set forth in article 11 of RD 99/2011 regarding the procedure for supervising and monitoring doctoral theses, as well as the Regulations for Doctoral Studies at the URJC https://www.urjc.es/images/Universidad/Presentacion/normativa/Normativa_Estudios_Doctorado.pdf

DOCTORATE TRAINING

 

https://www.urjc.es/actividades-formativas

SUPERVISION. RAPI URJC.

The URJC follows the guidelines set forth in article 11 of RD 99/2011 regarding the supervision procedure

https://www.urjc.es/informacion-practica#supervision-y-seguimiento-de-la-tesis-doctoral-rapi

 

ACTIVITIES INTERUNIVERSITY DOCTORATE IN TOURISM

Next, we detail the areas in which the activities in the Memory of the degree are divided, it is recommended to the thesis supervisor and the doctoral student that they take into account the control procedure that is required in each of the areas since they must be uploaded to the RAPI to be evaluated by the director/tutor of the thesis.

The activities in red correspond to the first year, those in yellow to the second and the green ones to the last. Although, they can be done indistinctly in the three years. However, it must be taken into account that before depositing the thesis, the number of hours in each area must be covered and the control work required by each area must be submitted.

 

 

  1. ACTIVITY: Tools for managing and retrieving information. NUMBER OF HOURS 8

 

Transversal training activity whose objective is for doctoral students to acquire the ability to carry out and manage bibliographic searches on a research topic in different public and private bibliographic databases.

Basic skills: CB11, CB13.

Personal abilities and skills: CA01.

Contents and time sequence: Full-time students will be able to access this transversal training during the first quarter of the first year of enrollment. Part-time students will be able to access this transversal training in the first semester of their first or second year of enrollment.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

The students will a review of the state of science in your research topic by analyzing the main works found in a bibliographic search, under the supervision of the thesis director. Said review will be incorporated as a task carried out in the Document of Activities of the Doctoral Student.

The assessment of the review activity of the state of the art of science in tourism and the control that through this work the competences, abilities and skills have been achieved, will be carried out by the Director of the Doctoral Thesis.

2. ACTIVITY: Models of scientific communication. NUMBER OF HOURS 12

Transversal training activity whose purpose is for the student to acquire the necessary knowledge on the ways of carrying out communication and scientific dissemination.

Basic skills: CB12, CB16.

Personal abilities and skills: CA03.

Contents and time sequence: Students will be able to access this transversal training during the first quarter of the second year of enrollment. Part-time students will be able to access this transversal training in the first semester of their second or third year of enrollment.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

The students will carry out a work on scientific communication related to their doctoral thesis topic that will be incorporated to the Document of Activities of the Doctorate. The evaluation of the activities and the control of having reached the competences, abilities and skills will be carried out by the Director of the Doctoral Thesis.

  1. ACTIVITY: Knowledge transfer models. NUMBER OF HOURS 14

 

Transversal training activity aimed at introducing the basic concepts of the knowledge transfer process and, where appropriate, business development and Business Plan, as a fundamental tool for the feasibility analysis of a research or creation process and its subsequent technological, social transfer , artistic or cultural. Protection of industrial and intellectual property. Technology transfer strategies: article 83 of the LOU, operating licences, spin-offs.

Basic skills: CB12, CB16.

Personal abilities and skills: CA03.

Contents and time sequence: Students will be able to access this transversal training during the first quarter of the third year of enrollment. Part-time students will be able to access this transversal training in the first semester of their third or fourth year of enrollment.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

The doctoral students will carry out a business plan as the evaluable final work of the activity. The assessment of the business plan prepared by the student and the control of having achieved with this work the competences, capacities and skills

established as objectives will be carried out by the Doctoral Thesis Director

4. ACTIVITY: Seminars and workshops research in tourism.  NUMBER OF HOURS 10

Specific training activity consisting of attendance at seminars given by researchers linked to the doctoral program and invited researchers of recognized prestige. The objective is that, on a regular basis, a researcher explains his research work in two-hour seminars to all the students of the doctoral program.

 

These activities will take place in some of the Program universities, but may be followed by the rest by videoconference and, therefore, will serve the Program as a whole.

Basic skills: CB11, CB14.

Personal abilities and skills: CA04, CA06. The vehicular language will be Spanish.

The students of this doctoral program will be able to access this transversal training along Of the first and second year of enrollment. With a minimum forecast of 5 seminars in each academic year.

Students must attend a minimum of 10 of these seminars, which will be included in the Doctoral Student Activities Document.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

The student must prepare a report of each one of the seminars you will attend, which will be reviewed and evaluated by the director of the Doctoral Thesis. Attendance control at the various seminars will be carried out in the sessions and will be included in the Doctoral Student Activities Document.

5. ACTIVITY: Joint work seminars among students of the Doctorate in Tourism.  NUMBER OF HOURS 10

 

Specific training activity that will affect all the universities of the Program and that each year will be carried out in one of them, consisting of a day for students enrolled in the doctoral program. The conference will focus on the exhibition and public defense of the work carried out during each year to the rest of the students and professors of the doctoral program and debate on theoretical and practical issues on which the work carried out is based. The number of hours of the activity includes the preparation time for the exhibition and attendance at the rest of the presentations.

This activity will be carried out virtually, taking advantage of the means of videoconference.

Basic skills: CB11, CB12, CB15, CB16.

Personal abilities and skills: CA06.

This activity will take place in each of the last two years of the doctoral program. Second semester. (The student must attend at least one before depositing their thesis)

The organizing university will fully or partially cover the direct expenses associated with the organization and development of the activity based on its own financing plans for training activities of the doctoral programmes.

Students will have to attend the presentations and their participation will be included in the Doctoral Student Activities Document.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

Elaboration of a report on the activity carried out which must include the exhibition made by the student, as well as an overall assessment of the day. The evaluation of this memory will be carried out by the director of the Doctoral Thesis.

6. ACTIVITY: Presentation of scientific communications to national and international congresses dedicated to aspects of Tourism. NUMBER OF HOURS 10

Specific training activity consisting of training for scientific communication. The activity will include the preparation, submission of the manuscript,

and the public exhibition (in case of acceptance) of a work related to the subject of the Thesis in congresses, conferences, work meetings

(workshops) or doctoral workshops, national or international.

In particular, the assistance of the students of the Program to the annual Forum of the INTUR Network to present research works will be promoted and facilitated.

carried out, prior selection by the Academic Commission

Basic skills: CB13, CB15, CB16.

Personal abilities and skills: CA06 and CA05.

This activity will take place throughout the last two years of the doctoral program in the duration established for each of the two modalities

enrollment (full time and part time)

 

CONTROL PROCEDURE

Certificate of attendance at the scientific communication event and accredited acceptance by documents or bibliographical reference of the minutes of the event in the Document of Activities of the Doctorate.

In order for students to present, in an external academic environment, the results and achievements of their research, during the second

and third year of the doctorate this activity will be developed, consisting of the elaboration of research results. The training development should

be supervised and evaluated by the Director of the Doctoral Thesis.

 

MOBILITY ACTIONS

Aid for mobility from the Ministry, Autonomous Communities, Universities and research groups

 

 

7. ACTIVITY: Mobility and stays at universities and higher research centers on the research topic.  NUMBER OF HOURS 720

Specific training activity consisting of the mobility of the doctoral student to a University or Higher Research Center of recognized prestige in the field of research in which they are enrolled to carry out research tasks related to their thesis topic. The mobility of doctoral students will be promoted as another training activity with the aim that the doctoral student learns about other research environments and gets used to the internationalization of research. This activity is particularly important since it will allow the doctoral student to interact with other researchers and develop new techniques. To perform this activity, the second is recommended or third year.

As a recommendation, although subject to available funding, it will be ensured that all doctoral students carry out a three-month stay in a renowned research center in another country, developing research topics related to their Doctoral Thesis.

The director of the thesis, and where appropriate the Tutor, must submit a reasoned report to the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program on the suitability of the center where the stay will be carried out, the subject to be developed, the duration of the stay and the financing of the same.

Basic skills: CB11, CB12, CB13, CB14.

Personal abilities and skills: CA01, CA02, CA04.

This month-long activity can be carried out throughout the entire Doctorate programme, although preferably in the second and third years.

CONTROL PROCEDURE

Prior to the stay, the tutor of the doctoral student will inform the Academic Committee of the doctoral program of the details of it.

The student during his stay will work supervised by a professor/researcher from the corresponding centre, who will prepare a final report on the work carried out during the stay and the student's performance.

Said report will reflect, in addition to the research activities, any other doctoral training activity carried out during the same (attendance at seminars and specialized courses, etc.)

The tutor will receive this report and will include it, together with the Certificate accrediting the stay issued by the unit responsible for the stay at the University or Research Center in the Doctoral Student Activities Document.

MOBILITY ACTIONS

PLANNING STAYS IN OTHER CENTERS, CO-DIRECTORATE AND INTERNATIONAL MENTIONS:

In accordance with the spirit of RD 99/2011 and the Salzburg Principles, the mobility of doctoral students is considered a fundamental activity to promote the internationalization of the doctoral program and foster or consolidate contacts with groups and researchers from other universities and research centers. research, Spanish and foreigners.

The Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will request from the Directors/Tutors of the second-year doctoral students, a justifying report on the research center or university where they propose that the doctoral student spend the three-month stay. This report must state the suitability of the proposed center based on the subject of the Thesis, indications of the scientific quality of the center or university, work plan and planned financing for the stay. Once the stay has been completed, the work carried out during your stay must be recorded in your activity document. Based on all this information, the Academic Commission of the Doctoral Program will annually issue a reasoned report to the CGC of the Doctorate evaluating the results obtained by the doctoral students, proposing those changes in the host centers, on the date of the stay and how many changes I considered adequate for an improvement of the activity.

Regarding the co-supervision of theses by international experts, this program contemplates the possibility that, based on the line of research and the report of the director and, where appropriate, the tutor, the Academic Committee assesses and accepts the work of co-supervision by from a foreign expert, provided that they meet the necessary academic requirements and are recognized in the subject. In addition, the co-director must be a researcher from one of the universities and research centers with which the program has a collaboration agreement.

Regarding the international doctoral mention, it is considered a priority in this program and the means will be provided so that the doctoral students can accredit the circumstances established in this regard by RD 99/2011, in its article 15, regarding the Mention International in the Doctor's degree During their stay, the student will work supervised by a professor/researcher from the corresponding center, who will prepare a final report on the work carried out during the stay and the student's performance. This report will reflect, in addition to the investigative activities, any

other doctoral training activity carried out during the same (attendance at seminars and specialized courses, etc.) The tutor will receive this report and include it, together with the Certificate accrediting the stay issued by the unit responsible for the stay at the University or Center of Research in the Doctoral Student Activities Document.

The duration of a research stay may be divided into shorter periods, especially in the case of part-time students to adjust to their availability. However, the current context of economic crisis and budgetary difficulties, which may limit the financing of mobility programmes, leads us to reconsider the mandatory nature of this training activity, although the Academic Committee of the Doctoral Program will try to promote the maximum mobility of all doctoral students, as well as longer stays in order to promote the International Mention in the Doctorate degree..

Doctoral students who carry out a thesis with an international mention must carry out a stay of at least three months in a research center of recognized prestige in another country, developing research topics related to their Doctoral Thesis.

 

TABLE No. 1. Training Activities

ACTIVITIES YEAR  PRESENT STUDENT REPORT  TOTAL HOURS DOCTORAL PROGRAM MANDATORY
Tools for managing and retrieving information. 1ST YEAR review of the state of science in your research topic. The review will be incorporated as homework  X 8 HOURS X
Scientific communication models 2st YEAR work on scientific communication related to your doctoral thesis topic  X 12 HOURS X
Knowledge transfer models 3ST YEAR a business plan as evaluable final work of the activity. X 14 HOURS X
Tourism research seminars and workshops 1ST AND 2ND YEAR the student must prepare a report of each one of the seminars he/she will attend. Must attend at least 10 seminars X 10 HOURS X
Seminars of joint work between students of the Doctorate in Tourism 2ND AND 3RD YEAR Preparation of a report on the activity carried out that must include the presentation made by the student, as well as an overall assessment of the day X 10 HOURS X
Presentation of scientific communications to national and international congresses dedicated to aspects of Tourism 2ND AND 3RD YEAR Certificate of attendance and presentation X 10 HOURS X
Mobility and stays at universities and higher research centers on the subject of research 2ND AND 3RD YEAR Final report prepared by a professor or researcher from the corresponding center X 720 HOURS NON-MANDATORY ACTIVITY
    TOTAL HOURS 64 HOURS  

Theses defended

 

Thesis name

Effects and impacts of crisis communication on the image of Spain as a tourist destination during the COVID-19 crisis and in the post-pandemic scenario

Line of research

Line 3: Management and innovation in tourism organizations

Identifier of the faculty that directs the thesis

Heel Ballestero, Pilar

Villacé Molinero María Teresa

Date of your defense

21/04/2024

Qualification

Outstanding Cum Laude

University where it was read

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Most relevant scientific contribution

Title: Communication for destinations' image in crises and disasters: A review and future research agenda. 

Magazine: Tourism Review, 79(7), 1385-1407.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/TR-11-2021-0521

 

Thesis name

Apitourism in the inland mountain ranges of Spain combats depopulation through sustainable and regenerative development.

Line of research

Line 4: Tourism and heritage

Identifier of the faculty that directs the thesis

Maria Angeles Rubio Gil

Date of your defense

24/06/2024

Qualification

Outstanding Cum Laude

University where it was read

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Most relevant scientific contribution

Title: Theoretical approach to Api-tourism routes as a paradigm of sustainable and regenerative rural development. 

Journal: Journal of Apicultural Research, 62(4), 751-766.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00218839.2022.2079285

 

Thesis name

Crisis management and sustainability for the development of cultural tourism destinations: The case of Daming Palace (China)

Line of research

 Economy and Tourism Businesses

Identifier of the faculty that directs the thesis

 Jesús Palomo Martinez, Cristina Figueroa Domecq

Date of your defense

 March 12th 2025

Qualification

 Outstanding cum laude (unanimity)

University where it was read

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Most relevant scientific contribution

 Li, J., Figueroa-Domecq, F., & Palomo, J. (2024). Will tourists still travel? The impact of crisis management in cultural tourism destinations. Journal of Tourism Analysis-Journal of Tourism Analysis, 31(2), 32-74.

  

Thesis name

Data-Driven Decision Making: Applying Machine Learning to Revenue Management in Hospitality

Line of research

Intelligence in the tourism sector: ICTs and data analysis

Identifier of the faculty that directs the thesis

Dr. Lydia González Serrano - Dr. María del Pilar Talón Ballestero

Date of your defense

July 11, 2025

Qualification

Outstanding cum laude (unanimity)

University where it was read

Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Most relevant scientific contribution

Scientific Publications. Three scientific articles have been published or accepted in top-tier journals as part of the thesis compendium: • Paper I. The impact of dynamic pricing on restaurant customers' perceptions and price sentiment, published in Tourism Review (Q1, IF: 7.30, CiteScore: 15.1). Open access. • Paper II. Avoiding food waste from restaurant tickets: a big data management tool, published in Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology (Q1, IF: 5.3, CiteScore: 8.4). This paper received the Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Technology Paper of the Year Award 2025. Award details. Open access. In addition, a mobile application derived from the methodology presented in this paper has been submitted for intellectual property protection as a potentially patentable software tool. • Paper III. Machine Learning in Hospitality: Interpretable Forecasting of Booking Cancellations, published in IEEE Access (Q2, IF: 3.9). Open access.

 

 

Scholarships

https://www.urjc.es/eid/normativa-documentacion-eid

Privacy Policy

National regulations

Regulations of the Rey Juan Carlos University

For students with first enrollment in the 2023/24 academic year and later

For students with first registration prior to the 2023/24 academic year

  • Regulatory Regulations for Doctoral Studies at URJC (Approved by the Government Council on 07/06/2019) ||  Regulations Governing the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Doctorate Studies
    • Important:   Doctoral students who, on the date of entry into force of RD 576/2023, had begun doctoral studies in accordance with RD 99/2011, will be subject to the doctoral regulatory provisions in force at the time of the start of said studies. However, they will apply articles 23 onwards of the Regulations for Doctoral Studies of the URJC approved by the Governing Council on July 19, 2024 (related to the tribunal, defense and evaluation of the doctoral thesis).

Quality guarantee

Internal quality assurance system

Manual of the Internal Quality Assurance System

Composition of the commission

Composition of the commission

Code of good practices

Code of good practices

General information collection plan

Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are being carried out as part of the general information collection plan:

  • Survey addressed to new students of doctoral programs
  • Doctoral student satisfaction survey with the doctoral program
  • Satisfaction surveys of the doctoral student with the training activities of the doctoral program
  • Assessment surveys of supervisors and thesis tutors
  • Faculty satisfaction survey with the doctoral program

Survey results:

Renewal of accreditation

The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.

In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.”

 

Go up