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The Academic Master's Degree Program in Tourism and Hospitality preferably trains professors and researchers, with a focus on the study of the tourism phenomenon, as well as organizations and their theories, in an interdisciplinary perspective. Efforts aimed at reading, research, and scientific production are required from the student to obtain a Master's degree.

The project to create the Master's Course in Tourism and Hospitality was approved by the Council for Teaching, Research, and Extension (Resolution Nº 013/CEPE/97) and in June of 1997 and, in the same year, it was approved by the University Council (Resolution Nº 017/Cun/97). Its operation began in August 1997, marked by its innovative and pioneering character in the region where it operates.

The creation of the Stricto sensu Graduate Course in Tourism and Hospitality - Academic Master's Degree (a pioneer in the country) represented, on the one hand, the unfolding of the experience accumulated until then through activities of training human resources in the area of tourism. On the other hand, it was supported by data from a survey carried out by the Fundação Instituto de Pesquisas Econômicas - FIPE, in 1995, which found that, in the country, undergraduate courses in Tourism, although showing a quantitative growth, suffered from the reduced training of technical staff necessary for its qualitative development, a situation that persists to the present day.

In order to meet this demand, its teaching and research proposal is focused both on scientific studies of the phenomenon of tourism in the national territory and on its ramifications and exchanges of students, professors and researchers in the area abroad.

Curricular structure

The Academic Master's Program in Administration lasts 24 months. Given the academic profile of the program, students are expected to be present on Mondays and Tuesdays to participate in classes, research activities, seminars and debates.

Study and Research area

Concentration areas

• Tourism and Hospitality Planning and Management

• Area 1: Tourist Destination Planning

• Area 2: Management of Tourism Companies

Mandatory subjects for all areas

• Research methodology

• Thesis Seminar

• Tourism: Theoretical Approaches and Trends

• Hospitality: Management and Trends

Electives for all areas

• Anthropology and Tourism

• Landscape and Infrastructure in Tourism Spatial Planning

• Tourism and Nature Conservation

• Gastronomy: Ethnic-Cultural Aspects

• Tourism: Socio-Spatial Aspects

• Cultural Heritage and Tourism

• Tourism Destination Planning and Management

• Organizations in Tourism and Hospitality

• Tourism Marketing

• Logistics Applied to Tourist Services

• Finance in Tourism and Hospitality

• Statistics

• Optional Thematic Seminars

Credits

Each student must take at least 30 (thirty) credits, as follows:

• 13 (thirteen) credits in compulsory disciplines,

• 11 (eleven) elective credits and

• 06 (six) credits related to the elaboration of the Master’s Thesis.

Number of credits

• 24 (twenty-four) credits in disciplines; and

• 6 (six) credits for the Master’s Thesis.

• Total: 30 (thirty) credits

Permanent Professors

Ana Paula Lisboa Sohn
Post Doctoral 
anasohn@univali.br

Carlos Alberto Tomelin
Doctoral
tomelin@univali.br

Carlos Marcelo Ardigó
Doctoral
marcelo.ardigo@univali.br

Diva de Mello Rossini
Post Doctoral
divarossini@univali.br

Fabrícia Durieux Zucco
Doctoral
fabriciazucco@hotmail.com

Francisco Antônio dos Anjos
Post Doctoral
anjos@univali.br

Luciano Torres Tricárico (Program Coordinator)
Doctoral 
tricarico@univali.br

Luiz Carlos da Silva Flores
Post Doctoral
luiz.flores@univali.br

Marcos Arnhold Júnior
Doctoral
marcosjunior@univali.br

Pablo Flôres Limberger (Vice-coordinator)
Doctoral
pablofl@univali.br

Rodolfo Wendhausen Krause
Doctoral
rodolfo@univali.br

Sara Joana Gadotti dos Anjos
Post Doctoral
sara@univali.br

Collaborating Professors

Josildete Pereira de Oliveira
Doctoral
joliveira@univali.br

Renato Büchele Rodrigues
Doctoral
renatobr@univali.br

Yára Christina Cesario Pereira
Doctoral
yara@univali.br

Lines of Research

Central theme: Planning and Management of Tourism and Hospitality

Phenomena of planning and management of Tourism and Hospitality are approached, considering the role of tourist destinations and management of tourist companies in society and in the tourist space. It also considers the importance of new destinations, relationships and forms of management necessary to attract resources for the tourist trade to achieve its goals and ensure sustainable survival.​

Given the complexity of the topic, there are two lines of research:

Line 1 – Tourist Destination Planning

Line 2 – Management of Tourism Companies

These lines guide research projects and course subjects. Learn more about them:

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Research​ Area​​​s

​Research Gr​​oups