Bosch i Portell, Mònica (Date of defense: 2019-01-09)
This work studies how the class of hisendats (landowners who lived from their rents), the economic and social ruling class in the Girona society of the eighteenth century, also became a leading class ...
Blasco Franch, Daniel (Date of defense: 2014-01-27)
Debates on the creation and management of tourism destinations have increased during the last decades. This dissertation endeavours to contribute to the literature on tourism destinations planning and ...
Fernández Aldecua, María José (Date of defense: 2019-02-15)
This doctoral thesis aims to contribute to the development of an emerging theory of community-based tourism (CBT), defining it as community-driven governance (CDG) and as social entrepreneurship, both ...
Martínez Rodríguez, Joaquim (Date of defense: 2014-05-30)
This thesis includes a review of how the information technology is used at present in the hotels, as well as the functionality expected from the hotels information systems. We compare these systems ...
Rondós, Elena (Date of defense: 2019-07-22)
This doctoral thesis aims at developing and implementing a computational framework for performing virtual testing of composite structures using a High-Performance Computing (HPC) environment. In this ...
Costa Marcé, Albert (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)
The global economy has suffered a serious crisis and rapid slowdown. globalization significantly increases the unbalanced use of finite, non- 2/1 renewable sources of energy, aggravating climate ...