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Course: 2025/2026

Business models and design thinking for tourist services
(17615)
Bachelor in Tourism (Study Plan 2017) (Plan: 381 - Estudio: 209)


Coordinating teacher: RODRIGUEZ MARQUEZ, ALICIA

Department assigned to the subject: Mechanical Engineering Department

Type: Electives
ECTS Credits: 3.0 ECTS

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Requirements (Subjects that are assumed to be known)
Fundamentals of business administration Strategic management Turistic marketing
Description of contents: programme
1. Sustainability and tourism - Sustainability as a strategic approach in tourism enterprises. - Environmental, social and economic challenges in the creation of tourism enterprises. 2. New business models in the tourism sector. - Concept and basic elements of a business model. - Methodology for generating new sustainable business models. - Best practices and innovation in sustainable tourism business models. 3. Design Thinking and Lean Startup for sustainable tourism service activities - Design Thinking and Lean Startup: similarities and differences - Design Thinking: user-centered tourism service design - Lean Startup: principles and implementation
Learning activities and methodology
THEORY CLASS. Exhibitions in the teacher's class with support of computer and audiovisual media, in which the main concepts of the subject are developed and the materials and bibliography are provided to complement the students' learning. PRACTICES. Resolution of practical cases, problems, etc. raised by the teacher individually or in groups. INDIVIDUAL OR GROUP STUDENT WORK. TUTORIAL SESSIONS. Individualized assistance (individual tutorials) or group (collective tutorials) to students by the teacher.
Assessment System
  • % end-of-term-examination/test 50
  • % of continuous assessment (assigments, laboratory, practicals...) 50

Calendar of Continuous assessment


Extraordinary call: regulations
Basic Bibliography
  • Alexander Osterwalder, Y. Pigneur. Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers . John Wiley & Sons. 2010
  • Aliseda, J. M., Castanho, R. A., Carvalho, J. V., & Abreu, A. . Nuevas estrategias para un turismo sostenible. . Thomson Reuters Aranzadi.. 2022
  • Idris Mootee. Design Thinking for Strategic Innovation : What They Can't Teach You at Business or Design School). Wiley. 2013
  • Ries, E.. El método Lean Startup: Cómo crear empresas de éxito utilizando la innovación continua. Deusto. 2013
  • Sanchís Palacio, J. R., Campos Climent, V., & Ejarque Catalá, A. T. . Emprendimiento sostenible: Emprendiendo desde la cocreación de valor y el bien común. . Pirámide. 2020

The course syllabus may change due academic events or other reasons.