Knowledge of the methodological and paradigmatic evolutionary path of Economic-Political Geography. Territorial systems and the processes of regionalization. The distribution of needs and resources in an only theoretically globalized world and the competitive process created. Part of the program aims at in-depth knowledge of a social and economic phenomenon on a planetary scale, tourism. It will study the spatial evolution of markets and businesses and the old and new typologies useful for territorial organization. The socio-economic and cultural spillovers balanced with environmental sustainability. The competition between countries and the policies put in place also by virtue of new technologies.

At the end of the course the student will have acquired:
(1) Knowledge and ability to understand: understanding the processes that have contributed to today's configuration of the social, economic and territorial relations of the countries of the world thus enabling the delineation of the scenarios expected in the 21st century.
(2) Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: to frame the macrosectors of the economy from which the important processes of territorial integration and differentiation arise according to different scales, from local to global and vice versa.
(3) Autonomy of judgment: ability to analyze and interpret the existence of well-established structures of the economy in the articulation of their activities dedicated to the production of goods and services and the significance of certain economic and territorial phenomena.
(4) Communication skills: acquisition of specific terminology related to the subject communicable through the types supported during the didactic period, written, oral and in lecture mode.
(5) Learning skills: specific training in economic-political geography, ability to critique and relate in past and current modeling comparisons, ability to deepen the field independently.