Abstract

GONZALEZ HERRERA, Manuel Ramón  and  TEIXEIRA DE CARVALHO, Edione. Tourist Learning by Significant Discovering through Academic Study Trips: strategy and practice of sustainability. Puerto Peñasco, México. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2016, vol.7, n.13, pp.435-462. ISSN 2007-7467.

Entrepreneurial development is a key success factor for sustainable tourism, which requires practical innovative training, adequate to the tourism market trends. The objective of the research was develop an experience of tourist learning by Significant Discovering through academic study trips to the tourist coastal destination Puerto Peñasco, through the subject Planning Tourism of the Tourism Program of the Autonomous University of Ciudad Juárez (UACJ by its name in Spanish). We implemented an experimental methodology, which used methods empirical, theoretical and statistical - mathematical. The activity practice applied the geospatial approach to the study of a destination through the interpretation of the production process of the tourist space, as well as the recognition of model implementation, inventory and evaluation of tourist resources and analysis of the structuring of the space tourism scheme. The results allowed to understand and justify the contribution of the process of learning to the formation of tourist expertise incorporating academic extracurricular study trips to the development of the tourist learning by Significant Discovering as strategy and practice of sustainability.

Keywords : knowledge; tourism; learning; academic study trips; Academic Travel; Travel Study; sustainable.

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