Yucatec or Yucatan Maya (known to its own speaker’s simple as Maya) is a Mayan language of the Yucatan Peninsula and Northern Belize. 800,000 Mayan people speak dialects of this language fluently today.

Functional Spanish for Tourism Majors or SP 139 is a 3 credit course that will enable the student to develop linguistic and cultural proficiency relevant to the communication needs of those in the thriving field of tourism. Due to the interactive nature of the course, students will learn to exhibit understanding while analyzing and applying the correct use of Spanish in functional communication. 

This course is aimed to provide a broad overview of tourism devoted to the global impacts of tourism, a history of travel and career opportunities. It will also look at the governmental and private sector organizations that provide services, products and destinations for travelers (transportation, lodging, food service providers, travel agents, wholesalers, and tourism attractions). Students will learn about travel motivation, travel behavior and understand the importance of marketing tourism. In addition, students will also learn about tourism planning and examine the components of tourism.