Should there be a health emergency that requires the general public to be confined or which involves restricted mobility during the academic year, we shall attempt to adapt teaching and assessment. Should this situation arise, information about any changes will be given on the Moodle space for every subject. The course introduces the main insights and issues regarding the relation between wine tourism resources and products, socioeconomic and territorial development in wine areas and regions, and the experience of visitors. It consists of 5 thematic modules, which include frontal classes and mobile workshops during field trips.

This subject's objective is to introduce and develop the main concepts and issues regarding the relationship between wine tourism resources and products, socioeconomic and territorial development in wine areas and regions, and the experience of visitors. It consists of 5 thematic modules, which include frontal classes (approximately 30 hours), debate and evaluated activities in class, as well as visits, lectures by experts and practitioners and mobile workshops during field visits. 

The teaching is offered by two lecturers who are experts in tourism, and namely: tourism development; local tourism production systems; regional aspects and impacts of tourism development; destination management and planning; quality management and the visitor experience; the governance, policy and political framing of (wine) tourism systems. The lecturers are not oenology expert themselves but have a long education and research track of analysing tourism development as ‘territorial issue’ and the factors favouring or constraining the sustainable development of tourism destination, as well as relevance of innovation for this outcome and its social and policy underpinnings. 

This subject is developed in close relation to the Tarragona region (including different destination regions, more or less specialised in wine tourism, and 7 wine denominations) as exemplary of the issues, concepts and problems explored in class; from this point of view, field visits and other activities out of class offer an unique environment for acquiring and testing the knowledge taught in class, in the ‘real world’