Interactive lectures, oral presentations, debates and discussions will allow for the deeper learning and expansion of the various topics outlined in the syllabus. Participants will also develop the various learning skills through exercises performed individually, in pairs and in groups. The teaching/facilitating process will focus on improving highly specialised skills such as negotiating conditions with clients and providers, preparing minutes for meetings, understanding and writing travel contracts, the creation of itineraries and travel programmes and tourism routes, and filling out forms and other documentation as well as writing commercial correspondence, writing reports of activities performed, looking for, asking for and conveying information and data on a professional topic, attending to claims and complaints, and others. Individual assignments, projects and extensive readings will aim at broadening the specialised knowledge of participants in all the areas listed in the syllabus.

Upon successful completion of this course, participants will be able to:

1. Function using a level of linguistic competence at the C1 in Spanish in the area of tourism both orally and in writing;
2. Understand and prepare oral and written messages in almost any register within the area of tourism;
3. Use the Spanish language freely, fluently and efficiently in the area of tourism;
4. Prepare written text in the professional area coherently and without major errors, and be able to summarise it;
5. Summarise in a few words orally the contents of specialised text, without the use of notes or any other support material. This will be done fluently and coherently ;
6. Switch from and to formal and informal register and talk about any topic that does not require specialisation;
7. Read and understand a specialised text, summarise it and express an opinion about it;
8. Write a commercial or administrative text and a concise professional text in the register required.