The Higher National Diploma in Tourist Entertainment aims to confer higher professional qualification, preparing students to plan and implement tourism and cultural entertainment programmes and activities; develop and coordinate activities in tourism companies and organisations, promoting the development of a responsible and quality tourism in Portugal. The main activities in this area are:
— Planning, organising and developing diagnostic and market analysis studies on the tourism potential of a specific context;
— Planning, managing and implementing entertainment and tourism activities according to the market trends;
— Planning, managing and promoting tourist and cultural entertainment programmes and activities, based on the differentiating potential and the resources of territories and according to the target markets;
— Developing multilingual tourism promotion materials, organising and guiding multilingual visits to places of tourist interest;
— Planning and developing digital information resources for tourism, using the proper computer applications;
— Promoting and organising tourism information and promotion activities in order to attract and retain the loyalty of various target audiences;
— Planning and implementing marketing strategies and new management policies for the different sales channels and client profiles;
— Planning, designing and supervising activities that promote the potential and regional tourism resources, within the scope of the activities of the various tourism companies and organisations.
1º Year | ||
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Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
Introduction to Tourism | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
Information Technology and Multimedia Communication | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
Group Dynamics | 2st Semester | 5.0 |
Business Organisation | 2st Semester | 5.0 |
Tourist and Cultural Entertainment | Annual | 5.0 |
Circuits, Routes and Tourist Territories | Annual | 5.0 |
Art History | Annual | 5.0 |
French for Tourist Entertainment | Annual | 5.0 |
English for Tourist Entertainment | Annual | 5.0 |
Event Organisation | Annual | 5.0 |
Tourism Planning and Development | Annual | 5.0 |
Tour Guiding Techniques and Practice | Annual | 5.0 |
2º Year | ||
Curricular unit | Period | ECTS |
Culture and Heritage | 1st Semester | 4.0 |
Entrepreneurship | 1st Semester | 4.0 |
Tourism Geography | 1st Semester | 4.0 |
Tourism Law | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
German for Tourist Entertainment | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
Spanish for Tourist Entertainment | 1st Semester | 3.0 |
Tourism Marketing | 1st Semester | 5.0 |
Tourism Markets and Products | 1st Semester | 4.0 |
Work placement | 2st Semester | 30.0 |