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Tourism Quality Management

Code: 104957 ECTS Credits: 6
2024/2025
Degree Type Year
2500894 Tourism OT 4

Contact

Name:
Isaac Lozano Alfaro
Email:
isaac.lozano.alfaro@uab.cat

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Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites


Objectives and Contextualisation

This course aims to provide students with the necessary skills to understand qualitative concepts and techniques in tourism industry, enabling them to analyse and evaluate quality management processes. Social and environmental aspects of tourism sector will also be approached in order to ensure companies with quality continuous improvement. 

At the end of the course the student will be able to:

  •  To know the most relevant models of quality management 
  •  Understand, apply and evaluate qualitative methods
  •  Identify social and environmental aspects of quality
  •  Evaluate and interpret quality management systems to contribute to business performance

Competences

  • Behave responsibly towards the environment.
  • Define and apply objectives, strategies and commercial policies in tourism businesses and entities.
  • Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the tourism phenomenon from the perspective of sustainability and quality management.
  • Develop a capacity for independent learning.
  • Display a customer service orientation.
  • Have a business vision, pinpoint the customer's needs and pre-empt possible changes in the environment.
  • Identify the legal framework governing tourism activities and the entities that conduct them.
  • Plan and manage activities on the basis of quality and sustainability.
  • Propose creative alternative solutions to problems arising in the field of tourism management, planning, businesses and products.
  • Work in a team.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Behave responsibly towards the environment.
  2. Develop a capacity for independent learning.
  3. Develop the principles and criteria of sustainability and quality management in tourism and extend them to other activities.
  4. Display a customer service orientation.
  5. Have a business vision, pinpoint the customer's needs and pre-empt possible changes in the environment.
  6. Identify and apply quality certification systems as a business strategy.
  7. Identify and apply the elements of public law (administrative law, tax law and tourism law) and private law that regulate certain tourism activities and entities.
  8. Plan and manage activities on the basis of quality and sustainability.
  9. Propose creative alternative solutions to planning and management problems in departments, activities or services in new areas of the tourism sector and in special tourism entities and products.
  10. Work in a team.

Content

QUALITY CONCEPT

  • Creativity Concept
  • Quality concept and objectives
  • Service quality: SERVQUAL model

 STANDARDS OF REFERENCE

  • Certifications: ISO 9001 (general), ISO 14001 (Environment)
  • EMAS certification
  • Q Certification (Tourist Quality)
  • Business excellence: EFQM model
  • Quality management: "Total Quality Management" TQM

 QUALITY AND ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

  • The reports for sustainability: “Global Reporting Initiative” GRI
  • Social quality strategy: Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Control of Quality and Environment records
  • Quality and sustainability certificates
  • Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the tourism industry

 PERFORMANCE OF THE SERVICE 

  • Corporate culture
  • Standardization of processes
  • Operating Manuals
  • Opportunity management.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND QUALITY

  •  Human resources: the management of human capital and the work environment

 MEASUREMENT, ANALYSIS AND IMPROVEMENT

  • Guest satisfaction surveys
  • Quality control: Business audits
  • Action plans.
  • Introduction to Lean: Continuous improvement tools.

Activities and Methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
Type: Directed      
Project-related and presentation class 30 1.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Theoretical classes 20 0.8 1, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9
Type: Supervised      
Mentoring 16 0.64 1, 2, 4, 5, 8, 10
Type: Autonomous      
Project-related and presentation class 18 0.72 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Self-study 18 0.72 2, 8

  • Classes are taught in English.
  • Expository and participatory classes of the concepts and contents of the subject.
  • Theoretical-practical classes in which the contents are worked on in the form of projects and activities.
  • Problem solving and practical cases in group with final presentation.
  • Cooperative learning and individual learning for the development and presentation of work. It includes the work directed by the teacher and the hours of study by the student.
  • Tutorials: individual or group to solve doubts or work on specific concepts.

Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.


Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title Weighting Hours ECTS Learning Outcomes
A) Class assignments 20% 9 0.36 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
B) Group Activity 1 15% 7 0.28 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
D) Case Study 20% 9 0.36 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
F) Exam 30% 16 0.64 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Group Activity 2 15% 7 0.28 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

 

A. CONTINUING EVALUATION

  • The assessment system consists of practical assignment / projects and  exams.
  • Projects must be submitted in the time and manner stipulated by the subject teacher.
  • Failure to comply with the strictness of the projects, in due time and form, will score as Not presented and the right to continue with the continuous evaluation will be lost.
  • The grade for the subject will be NOT EVALUABLE when the student does not attend to the total of the assessment activities and/or does not attend the final exam.
  • Projects and the exam must have a minimum score of 4 each to be able to weigh between them.

B. SINGLE ASSESSMENT.

  • Preparation of 4 reports with a total weight of 50% that must be presented in a timely manner. All must be passed with a minimum of 5. In addition, a final exam will be taken with a weight of 50% in the grade that will be carried out according to the instructions in this guide.
  • On the day and time established, according to the academic calendar, to the Official Programming of the EUTDH Center, the single evaluation tests or evaluation tests of the continuous evaluation will be carried out for students who have not satisfactorily passed the continuous evaluation and those who have followed opted for the single assessment.
  • The grade for the subject will be NOT EVALUABLE when the student does not attend to the total of the assessment activities and/or does not attend the final exam.
  • The professor will inform in a timely manner the format, duration, and location of the assessments.
  • No date changes will be accepted without the express approval of the study coordinator.

C. RE-ASSESSMENT

  • "Recovery of the subject by single evaluation will be the same as that of the rest of the students and in order to present themselves for the re-evaluation it will be necessary that they have obtained at least a 3.5 in all the evidence of which the single assessment states".
  • The maximum grade for this re-evaluation will not exceed 5 as a final grade.
  • The professor will inform in a timely manner the format, duration, and location of the exam.
  • No date changes will be accepted without the express approval of the study coordinator.

Bibliography

  • Class content
  • Fernández Gago, R (2005): Administración de la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa. Ed. Thompson, colección negocios, Madrid (Tema 6)
  • ISO 9000 (2005): Sistemas de Gestión de la Calidad. Fundamentos y vocabulario. AENOR. Madrid.
  • ISO 9001 (2008): Sistemas de Gestión de la Calidad. Requisitos. AENOR. Madrid.
  • ISO 9004 (2009): Gestión para el éxito sostenido de una organización. Enfoque de gestión de la calidad. AENOR. Madrid
  • Dale, B.G., Wiele, T. y Iwaarden, J. (2007): Managing quality, Blackwell, Oxford
  • European Foundation for Quality Management (2013): Modelo EFQM de Excelencia version 2013, EFQM, Bruselas
  • Arellano, R., & Anthony, M. (2018). Caracterización de la gestión de la calidad, bajo el enfoque de Planeamiento Estratégico en las micro y pequeñas empresas del sector servicios-rubro agencias de viaje del distrito de Huaraz, 2016.
  • Arbós, L. C., & Babón, J. G. (2017). Gestión integral de la calidad: implantación, control y certificación. Profit Editorial.
  • Global Reporting Iniciative (GRI). (2006): Guía para la elaboración de Memorias de Sostenibilidad.
  • Zeithaml, V.A.; Parasuraman, A; Berry, L.L. (1994): Calidad total en la gestión de los servicios. Ed. Díaz de Santos. Madrid.
  • L.Brennan, Linda (2011): The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course. Operations Management. Ed McGraw-Hill.
  • Shaffie, Sheila (2012): The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course. Six Sigma Ed McGraw-Hill.
  • Cuatrecasas, Luis (2010): Lean Management:La gestion competitiva por excelencia. Profit Editorial
  • H.Pink, Daniel (2018):Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us.Canongate

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Language list

Name Group Language Semester Turn
(TE) Theory 1 English second semester morning-mixed
(TE) Theory 2 English second semester morning-mixed