Design Innovation for the Tourist Industry(Joint degree)

Arts and Humanities

The master leverages multi-disciplinary education to research design and orient this towards a specific social and economic activity, tourism, as the field of application. The objective is to roll out strategies and activities in the industry based on design and design working methods. The University of Barcelona (UB), the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) and the University of the Basque Country (UPV-EHU) take part in this inter-university master’s degree, along with the University of La Laguna (ULL)

General information

  • Credits: 60 ECTS
  • Duration: 1 year
  • Methodology: Classroom-based and distance learning
  • Type: Inter-university
  • Place:
    • Faculty of Humanities. Fine Arts Section
  • Academic direction:
  • Designing spaces
  • Designing graphic and communication products
  • Designing tourist products and services
  • The objective of the programme is to acquire the skills that will give students the tools for research in design and innovation by:
  • This is a master’s degree that leads to professional or research specialisation with a clearly multi-disciplinary profile. It fosters the creation of a new kind of professional profile, specialising in managing design in the tourist industry with a view to developing innovative products and services. Graduates of this programme, as both designers and consultants, will be able to draw on their design know-how and apply it using their capacity for critical analysis and creative design-thinking to resolve specific problems with experimentation and creative synthesis. Their mission will be to analyse the industry, identify its problems and offer solutions and suggest possible scenarios for strategic improvement. The programme creates a research profile that the tourist industry understands to be necessary insofar as it can offer benefits
  • Admission will be direct for students coming from a bachelor’s degree in design, fine arts and industrial design engineering and product development from the European Area of Higher Education
  • Avda. Astrofísico Francisco Sánchez, SN. Edificio Calabaza – AN.2D Apdo. 456 38200 San Cristóbal de La Laguna por: C/ Pedro Zerolo, s/n. Edificio Central. Apartado 456. Código postal 38200. San Cristóbal de La Laguna. S/C de Tenerife
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