This module is designed to provide students the knowledge of contemporary issues affecting the hospitality and tourism industry. This course will be used for a better understanding of a selection of hospitality and tourism scenarios, characterized by issues such as special interest, activity based, impacts, planning, marketing, fragile destinations, ethics and sustainability.

This course aims to introduce students to the existence of great interest in defining niche tourism based on contemporary issues and cases written by specialists with an emphasis on linking niche tourism theory to practice. Another aim of it is to enable students, as future managers, to recognize the most significant contemporary issues in hospitality and tourism management and equip them with tools to effectively respond to these drivers of change.