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Challenges and constraints of hospitality and tourism education in China

open access: yesInternational Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2000
Tourism education in China plays an important role of supporting tourism development and ensuring the continuous supply of quality human resources to meet the overwhelming industry requirements.
Honggen Xiao
exaly   +2 more sources

The Relationship Between Tourism Education and The Tourism Industry: Implications for Tourism Education

Tourism Recreation Research, 1997
The relationship between tourism education and the tourism industry is historically a complex one which has been characterised by a lack of trust. Increasingly, however, both education and industry are recognising the mutual benefits of developing a more co-operative relationship and the importance of narrowing the divide which has traditionally ...
Chris Cooper, Rebecca Shepherd
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Managing Educational Tourism

2003
Increasingly tourists are seeking learning and educational holidays. This interest has led to the provision of tourism product with some form of learning or education as an integral component, including cultural heritage tourism and ecotourism. The growth of offshore education and lifelong learning has stimulated cross-border movement for language ...
Ritchie, Brent W.   +2 more
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Tourism education: policy versus practice

open access: yesInternational Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 1997
Discusses the current human resources environment in tourism at a strategic policy level, especially in the area of management level education. Describes a framework which is being used to study consul-tation between the makers of tourism and education ...
Tom Baum
exaly   +2 more sources

Spirituality and Pedagogy in Tourism Higher Education: Voices of Tourism Educators

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Education, 2021
This paper presents the findings of a qualitative inquiry into the integration of spirituality in tourism higher education from the perspectives of tourism academics.
Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar   +3 more
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Tourism education: views from educator and the tourism industry

2017
In many fields of university education, there is genera! agreement among academics and professional bodies on the knowledge, skills and competencies required by graduating students (e.g., medicine, law, psychology, engineering, accounting). Further, in many cases professional bodies will not admit graduates from nonrecognized degrees or institutions ...
Tan, Jacintha, Morgan, Damian
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EDUCATION TOURISM

2013
Higher education has long been marked by externalities and information asymmetries. In a globalised world economy, universities find themselves in an increasingly competitive market, no longer generally serving essentially local markets. At the institutional level, increased priority is accordingly placed on reputation, ranking, marketing activities ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Tourism Higher Education in Turkey

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 2005
SUMMARY This paper discusses and evaluates tourism higher education in Turkey. Turkish universities have been offering associate, bachelor, and postgraduate degree programs in tourism since the early 1990s. However, there have been major problems and challenges in this endeavor, including the lack of qualified academic staff, improperly designed ...
Okumus, Fevzi, Yagci, Ozcan
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Education for Tourism

International Journal of Tourism Sciences, 2002
Tourism degree programs generally incorporate a wide range of disciplinary inputs. These include, first, a full range of business-related disciplines, such as marketing, economics, quantitative methods and research methods, accounting and management.
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Valuing Tourism Education 2.0

Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 2011
This article reports on learning experiences from the INNOTOUR project that aims to raise the quality of tourism education by use of Web 2.0 technology, new pedagogy, and values-based education. The article describes the main areas of the INNOTOUR platform, associated teacher training, and examples of course implementation.
Liburd, Janne   +2 more
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