Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2018)
Hospitality curriculum plays an important role in hospitality education and impacts the quality of the workforce entering the growing hospitality industry. From the top hospitality undergraduate programs worldwide, this study selected 36 programs from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Austr…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2017)
This study determined the employability of vocational college graduates as perceived by travel agency managers in Taiwan. The AHP was performed on data from 50 valid returned questionnaires. The results show that travel agency managers identified 'generic skills' to be the most important employabili…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2017)
Using a case study approach, this study explores hospitality management students' applied culinary and restaurant studies experiences before and after the commercialisation of a training restaurant in a New Zealand school of hospitality. Student feedback is used to examine the impact of commercialis…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2017)
Efficient student internships are essential for appropriate career preparations to ensure a smooth transition to their professions after graduation. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship among the students’ learning motivation, off-campus internship efficacy, career decision se…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2016)
The aim of this study was to examine how experiential learning (EL) activities influence the employability skills of entry-level hotel employees/graduates and their resulting learning satisfaction. Four hypotheses pertaining to the constructs of EL, employability skills and learning satisfaction wer…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2016)
This exploratory study focuses on Hospitality and Tourism Management internships to examine whether these cooperative education experiences complement student learning and furthermore, enhance knowledge previously gained through a traditional classroom setting. It specifically focuses on preparation…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2014)
This study aims to explore the views of tourism and hospitality students' of summer internship programs they participate. The results of the survey received from 603 students across Turkey reveal that after their internship experiences almost 18.3% of the students do now wish to work in tourism and …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2014)
Cultivating the practical experience and skills of students through internships is beneficial, but a student's anxiety when transitioning from student to intern is often neglected. This study analysed the changes in student anxiety to determine the relation- ships among intern anxiety, internship ou…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2014)
The major objective of this study is to segment the hotel and tourism students into groups based on their perceived importance of the criteria for selecting internship employers, which is grounded in the expectancy theory and job choice framework. Drawing from a self-administered survey of 273 hotel…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2014)
This paper interprets students' perceptions of how they utilise technology for their learning and the link to sustainability and employability. A focus group approach is adopted with final year undergraduate hospitality students at three academic institutions in the UK, Switzerland and UAE. Diverse …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2013)
Hospitality and tourism management programmes are one of the rapidly developing subject areas in Chinese universities. With the rapid growth of the hospitality industry, increasing numbers of high-ranking research-based universities are now offering undergraduate and graduate degrees in hospitality …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2013)
The purpose of this study is to identify the impact that undergraduate students' internships have on their perceptions of careers in the hospitality and tourism industry, focusing on the moderating role of informal social experiences with co-workers and supervisors that may occur during the internsh…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2013)
Internships are regarded to be essential and complementary to cruise (and tourism) curricula. Yet, their relevance remains largely unquestioned. This paper aims at exploring the internship-related perceptions of: cruise-employers, students and educators, whilst highlighting and interpreting potentia…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2013)
The number of internship models that can potentially be applied to a field of study such as tourism is as broad and diverse. Conceptually, this study draws attention to an 'alternative' less structured, multi-stakeholder, knowledge-exchange model, which augments traditional internship approaches. Fu…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2013)
Hospitality internships are integral part of almost all reputable hospitality programs worldwide. Despite their universal recognition as an essential component of hospitality education, their value is often superseded by the challenges facing hospitality stakeholders in providing such an experience …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2012)
The aim of this paper was to explore how internship programme planning, industry involvement, and student commitment influence student willingness to pursue a career in the hospitality industry after graduation. This study applied Structure Equation Modelling (SEM) and employed a questionnaire to co…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2011)
Despite the irrefutable benefits, the number of students at HEIs in the UK opting to undertake a work placement is in decline (Little & Harvey, 2006; Morgan, 2006; Walker & Ferguson, 2009). The aim of this research was to determine the reasons that Tourism, Hospitality and Events students of one Bri…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2011)
The aim of this paper is to explore the process of developing a model for applied dissertations in taught postgraduate tourism programmes. Findings suggest that applied dissertations afford students the opportunity to engage in learning through and for work. Secondly, as learning demands the direct …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2011)
In Bulgaria, there are no nationally accepted benchmark standards for master's level (Mlevel) hospitality management (HM) programmes. Course design is undertaken by individual institutions and informed by the industry. Based on a survey of 207 Bulgarian hotel general managers, and employing descript…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2011)
The main purpose of this study was to explore the positive and negative effects of the internship experience on the behavioural intentions of college students in Taiwan. The results of this study suggest five major types of experience; sensory, affective, creative cognitive, physical and relational;…
