A contextual view on the role of contemporary architecture in urban tourism destinations: exploring why contemporary architecture is attracting tourism 

    Specht, Jan (Date of defense: 2013-01-25)

    Architecture forms an inherent part of urban tourism. Nevertheless, so far little research has been carried out regarding the interdependencies between urban tourism and architecture in general, as well as contemporary ...

    Advanced techniques in trajectory data analysis for anomaly detection and map construction 

    Yuejun, Guo (Date of defense: 2020-05-29)

    With a large amount of trajectory data generated every day, there is a high demand for developing advanced techniques to discover the underlying information instead of dull and heavy manual work. This thesis focuses on the ...

    Agua, actores sociales y servicios de los ecosistemas en la cuenca del río Muga. Una aproximación socioecológica 

    Garau, Enrica (Date of defense: 2022-01-31)

    This doctoral thesis aims to identify and characterize the relationships between stakeholders and water resources through the sociocultural and spatial analysis of the water ecosystem services (WES) in the social-ecological ...

    Barcelona y el turismo coreano. Un análisis a través de los medios de comunicación coreanos 

    Kang, Sin Gyu (Date of defense: 2022-02-07)

    The Spanish Tourism Office pointed out in 2012 that between 40,000 and 50,000 South Koreans had traveled to Spain. This figure, validated by the National Institute of Statistics (INE) reflects that in nine years the ...

    Canvis recents en el consum i la gestió de l'aigua en espais turístics. El cas de la Costa Brava (Girona) 

    Gabarda Mallorquí, Ariadna (Date of defense: 2017-02-13)

    Tourism has become one of the most important economic sectors in the Mediterranean coast. Despite the economic benefits generated by tourism at local and regional level, the environmental impacts related to water consumption ...

    Catalan gastronomy in the province of Girona: a study of tourists’ awareness of gastronomy and the available gastronomic options in accommodations 

    Forgas Serra, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-11-07)

    Tourists are interested in getting to know the gastronomy of the destinations. Those tourists who visit the Costa Brava are confused with the knowledge of Catalan cuisine. Based on this observation, the web pages of ...

    Competitivitat del turisme religiós en el marc contemporani. Els espais sagrats i el turisme 

    Aulet Serrallonga, Sílvia (Date of defense: 2012-11-16)

    The main aim is to define the concept of religious tourism in order to understand the complex nature of this phenomenon. Firstly, we analyze the concept of sacred, and especially the relationship with sacred spaces as main ...

    La conservación del patrimonio natural geológico en campos volcánicos, una herramienta para la gestión sostenible del territorio. El caso de la zona volcánica de la Garrotxa 

    Planagumà, Llorenç (Date of defense: 2022-11-25)

    The study of the geodiversity of an area and the conservation of its geological heritage, unlike biodiversity, has only recently begun to be systematized. This thesis analyses the conservation of geological heritage in ...

    Construcción de la paz territorial y la paz ambiental en un contexto de cambio climático. Casos de estudio Antioquia y Guaviare 

    Franco Gantiva, Anna María (Date of defense: 2021-09-24)

    Colombia is highly vulnerable to climate change due to its geographical position and its economic dependence in the first sector. In 2016 the country created a historic opportunity to end the armed conflict and build ...

    Desarrollo sostenible y derechos culturales. Contribuciones desde las ciudades y los gobiernos locales con la Agenda 21 de la cultura y Cultura 21 Acciones 

    Pascual i Ruiz, Jordi (Date of defense: 2021-07-06)

    The research studies the contributions that cities and local governments have made to debates, both locally and globally, on cultural rights and on the role of the culture in sustainable development. The research consists ...

    Diseño de una metodología de identificación y cartografía de unidades de paisaje a diferentes escalas. Aplicación al caso de Puerto Rico. 

    Soto-Bayó, Sandra (Date of defense: 2016-06-28)

    En este trabajo presentamos una jerarquía sistematizada de unidades de paisaje para el archipiélago de Puerto Rico, ubicado en la cuenca del Caribe. En este caso, aplicamos la metodología a dos escalas de análisis: a nivel ...

    Distribución geográfica, predicción espacial y diversidad de los hábitats litorales en la costa catalana 

    Cefalì, Maria Elena (Date of defense: 2019-03-07)

    According to the Habitats Directive (92/43/ECC) a habitat is defined as “the terrestrial or aquatic area, whether entirely natural or semi-natural, differentiated by its geographical, biotic and abiotic characteristics, ...

    El proceso de empoderamiento en jóvenes originarios del Cono Sur latinoamericano a partir de sus experiencias migratorias en Catalunya 

    Páez de la Torre, Sonia (Date of defense: 2020-11-23)

    This thesis investigates the empowerment processes of youngsters and young adults from the Cono Sur of Latin America who are currently living in Catalonia. The hypothesis defends the idea that the migration of people, during ...

    Els sistemes dunars de la costa catalana. Evolució històrica, estat actual i potencial de restauració 

    Garcia-Lozano, Carla (Date of defense: 2019-11-12)

    Human developed coasts in Catalonia show a high-degraded dune landscape. Along the last decades, dunes have disappeared from 60% of the beaches studied, whereas 30% of dunes have been reduced in extension, and only 10% ...

    En busca del tiempo y del espacio recobrados. Una investigación biográfica a partir de relatos de vida y migración de una familia de origen marroquí del Pirineo catalán 

    Amorós Torró, Marta (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)

    This biographic research depicts the way in which six members of a Moroccan origin family in the Catalan Pyrenees interpret and integrate their experiences in autobiographic narrations. The analysis of their life stories ...

    Evaluation of the role of Iran National Museum in the cultural tourism in Iran 

    Salek Farokhi, Omid (Date of defense: 2019-05-27)

    There has always been a controversy in relevant studies about the role of the museum in the tourism industry, particularly in cultural tourism has always remained controversial in relevant studies. The studies which have ...

    Fronteras y europeización del territorio: el papel de ciudades y regiones en la cooperación transfronteriza 

    Martín Uceda, Javier (Date of defense: 2019-07-16)

    he thesis aims to provide a new perspective for cross-border cooperation, as a key process in the construction of European territory. With cohesion policies, border areas become key to advancing community goals. And regions ...

    Furthering social exchange theory in the study of resident impact perceptions: three approximations to the limits to tourism growth 

    Muler González, Vanessa (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)

    This thesis links the limits of tourism growth and social exchange theory (SET) through tourism impacts perceptions of residents. SET has been the most widely used theory to explain the perceptions by residents of tourism ...

    Identificació, interpretació i valorització turística de les zones humides litorals del Baix Ter 

    Pueyo-Ros, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-07-10)

    The aim of the thesis is to analyse the relationships between mass tourism in Baix Ter and the coastal wetlands. The goal is to know if the wetlands are able to become tourism resources and, thus, to provide arguments for ...

    La imatge turística del Pirineu català: el cas de la Vall de Camprodon 

    Noguer i Juncà, Ester (Date of defense: 2014-07-21)

    This doctoral thesis will try to identify all structural elements that form the tourist landscape of the Valley of Camprodon, primarily from the tension between tradition/modernity vectors and between the nodes/semiologic ...