Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2025)
The aim of this qualitative study is to examine problem characteristics that facilitate the achievement of problem-based learning outcomes in hospitality and tourism education. Rooted in constructivist grounded theory, 64 in-depth interviews were held with hospitality and tourism postgraduates who h…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2025)
Integrated industry engagement has become a vital aspect of higher education, particularly ensuring curricular relevance in postgraduate programmes. This is especially significant in the complex field of Tourism and Hospitality (T&H), where equipping students with both hard and soft skills is essent…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2025)
In South Africa, the term transformation covers various aspects of change in society, including inter alia race, gender, religion, and socio-economic change. The rest of the world uses the DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) terminology to address these matters of change. The paper unpacks aspect…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
Inadequate understanding of how hospitality education should be approached indicates that learners may face difficulties adapting to future workplaces in the post-pandemic era. This study investigates perspectives on the need for hospitality programme revamps in order to meet post-pandemic requireme…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
Internships are crucial for enhancing the quality of talent in the hotel industry. However, it is essential to incorporate innovative internship activities with the current tech-savvy workforce. This research aims to develop gamification elements that can be integrated into hotel internship programs…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
In today’s highly disruptive business environment, the development of a new set of specific key competencies is crucial for career and organizational success. Based on a survey study carried out within the context of the hospitality industry of Cyprus, this paper proposes a novel framework for compe…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
Hospitality student interns are an important source of quality human resources (HR) to cope with serious labour shortage and sustain the future development of the hospitality industry. This study drew on job characteristics theory to examine the impact of job characteristics (JC) in hospitality inte…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
This experimental study investigates the effectiveness of virtual experiential learning in fostering student engagement by comparing the engagement and learning outcomes of two groups of students. One group (n = 69) participated in a virtual field trip to a winery, while the other group (n = 36) com…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
Tourism is an important sector within the South African economy, and tourism entrepreneurship drives this sector. A significant portion of entrepreneurship research concentrates on the samples of higher education students and the general population, not focussing on the youth, whether they are highe…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2024)
External evaluations of curriculum and assessment design have received increasing attention in higher education. However, cross-border evaluations of programs have not yet caught up with the more significant push toward the internationalisation of global partnerships. Addressing this knowledge gap, …
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2023)
This paper explores the impact of entrepreneurship education on tourism students’ entrepreneurial intention, and insights of the desirability and feasibility of starting a tourism-related business upon graduation. A structured questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 154 randomly selected …
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2023)
Short-term study abroad (STSA) programs are one of the most dynamic segments of international educational travel and tourism. Our study utilizes experiential learning theory (ELT) to investigate and compare the scope and depth of students’ encounters during STSA tours across four different global tr…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2023)
This study examined how service quality by institutes of hospitality management (IHM) in India affected hotel recruiters’ behavioral intentions of returning to campus for sustained recruitment activities. It further examined the underlying mechanisms of service value perceived by hotel recruiters, a…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2022)
This study explores hospitality competencies needed by the graduates of higher education institutions for their future employability within the industry based on Competency-Based Education. Using the Delphi method, the study involved a panel of industry from four- and five-star hotels in Malaysia as…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2022)
Several studies suggest that graduates lack the critical thinking skills required for problem-solving and effective financial decision-making in the hospitality industry. Since higher education may not be able to meet all the demands and needs of the hospitality industry; such institutions struggle …
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2022)
This paper presents practical teaching tips on how to design authentic assessments in THE education. As higher education providers are placing more emphasis on preparing students to be job ready, resulting in pivoting courses to deliver new approaches due to the pandemic. Considering new frameworks …
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2021)
The study aims to delineate the factors affecting the behavioral intentions of hotel interns of the reputed Institute of Hotel Management (IHMs). Also, the study intends to identify the association between future career intentions and word of mouth taking students’ satisfaction during the internship…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2021)
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak has severely affected many territories and industries since January 2020. Despite studies on COVID-19 from different perspectives, research on the impact of COVID-19 on hospitality and tourism education remains scant. In view of this research gap, the…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2021)
The purpose of this study is to understand the core values of students choosing to enter the airline ground crew internship. This study adopted the means-end chain theory and was conducted through one-on-one in-depth interviews with 40 students who were interns in the airline industry. The results s…
Published:Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism
(2020)
The aim of this study is to understand how the undergraduate students of tourism and hospitality find their way to research. This is done by focusing on their thesis experience. We observe that the existing literature disproportionally focuses on research experience of STEM undergraduate students in…
