They key objective of this course is to enable students to become fully aware of the diversity inherent to Spanish Tourism, while highlighting, in a more concrete way, the resources and destinations available. The following constitute its specific aims: - The characterization of "destination Spain:" territory as a key factor in the development of Tourism. Its implementation and spatial distribution, together with models and characteristics of tourist areas. - The profiling of tourist areas in terms of generic specialization, and also of consolidated and emergent segments or specific products - The interpretation of already-existing data on tourist destinations and the analysis of the environmental, economic, social, and cultural impact on the territory concerned - The focusing upon specific tourist destinations and the research into them: the Balearic Isles (Mallorca and Ibiza), the Canary Islands and Andalucia's Costa del Sol, as well as specific route-ways: the Camino de Santiago (as the first European Cultural Route), wine-related tourism and gastronomic itineraries, etc.