Teaching will consist of a combination of formats i.e.: lectures, hands-on workshops, discussion sessions, case reports, and presentations. Fieldwork in Madrid. Students are expected to be present, demonstrate active participation during contact hours, and preparepresentations and content for the discussion sessions.

-Describe and characterize European Tourism and European tourist practices, their modalities, interests, and impacts.

-Reflect and discuss the different perspectives arising from studying European Tourism from cultural diversity and an anthropological approach.

-Understand and explain European Tourism within a wider international and global perspective of Tourism: as a set of practices, as an interactive cultural expression, and as a geographical expression that interconnects territories and people in several ways, with different impacts.

- Assess the effects of tourism on local people, cultures, and the environment.-Discuss the power relationships between hosts and other stakeholders (e.g., tourists, governments, and the media).

1. A History of European Tourism: the development and growth of tourism in Europe.

-Forms of travel in the classical world and the Middle Ages

-Precursors of modern tourism

-Middle-class culture of travel: boom in mass tourism and globalisation

2. Going Abroad: meanings of being a tourist for the European Citizenship; destinations, aims, expectations, and outputs.

-Tourism as a form of consumption

-Tourism and identity

-European tourism abroad: reflections on the data

3. Looking for Adventure: Imaginaries of the South in the North.

-Tourism and ethnocentrism

-Tourism or imperialism

-Tourism and labour force

4. Sun, Sand, Sea, Sins, and Seniors: modalities and practices of tourism consumption.

-Tourists typologies

’-New forms of tourism

-Tourists or neighbours: Europeans on the Mediterranean coast

5. Locals, Tourists, and Anti‐Tourists: positive and negative cultural impacts of tourism:

- Adaptation vs. cultural resistance

- Relevant European cases

- The role of anti-tourists

- Ethnography of the future of tourism

6. Changing Landscapes: Double Homes, Countryside Escapes, and City Breaks. New European forms of Tourism in times of Globalization, City-countryside reconnection, and Tourism Futures.

- Post-COVID tourism preferences and city-country reconnection as an emerging trend.

- Evolving forms of tourism: second home tourism (double homes) and its social implications; ruralgetaways: revitalization and challenges in rural areas. Urban micro-tourism (city breaks)

- European Case Studies

- Tourism, sustainability (?) and beyond: towards regenerative tourism