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Journal of Teaching in Travel and Tourism

Published by Routledge • ISSN: 15313220

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Introducing storytelling into tourism and hospitality courses: students’ perceptions

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Storytelling is a fundamental component of human communication. As a teaching method, its introduction can lead to a wide range of benefits. Despite this, storytelling is not commonly employed by educators in tertiary education in Japan. As a result, students’ reactions to it as a pedagogic approach…

Revisiting tourism studies curriculum to highlight accessible and inclusive tourism

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A notable development in the past few years is that the concept of accessible and inclusive tourism (AIT) has gained momentum. This paper has two aims: first, to identify the extent to which tourism studies curricula can cultivate ethical behaviour in light of international legal mandates and conven…

Gastronomy students’ internship experience: benefits, challenges, and future career

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The aim of this study is to understand the way in which gastronomy students perceive internship. It also explores the relationship between the internship experience and future career perception. The research participants included 25 students of gastronomy and the culinary arts studying in the facult…

Tourism education and internships: a metaphor analysis

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The objective of the present study was to examine tourism undergraduates’ perceptions of their education and internship experiences through metaphorical analysis whilst striving to raise the awareness of tourism educators towards using metaphors. A qualitative methodology was used to explore this ph…

An examination of the role played by internships in nurturing management competencies in Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) students

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This article examines how the development of management competencies occurs within Hospitality and Tourism Management education programs at a 4-year higher education institution based in the Midwest. Its purpose is to address concerns raised by industry on how universities can best prepare graduates…

Experiential learning and its effectiveness from the perceptions of hospitality students

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This work aims to review the implementation situation of experiential learning (EL) in China’s hospitality education and explore the perceptions of students on the effectiveness of the adopted EL methods. Observations and focus group discussions are conducted in three vocational colleges and three u…

Introducing Evidence-Based Management into the Hospitality Curriculum: A Case Study

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Evidence-based methods are standard ways to evaluate and use information in the healthcare field, are adapted for business as “evidence-based management” (EBM), but not commonly implemented in hospitality. This article describes a project introducing EBM in hospitality education. Background informat…

Using Hospitality Coursework and Internships to Develop Student Leadership Abilities

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There is continual interest in developing leadership in today’s college level students. This is evident in the increasing number of leadership courses in the college curriculum. One of the more popular student leadership models is the student leadership practices inventory (SLPI). This study compare…

Creating Global Leaders with Sustainability Mindsets - Insights from the RMSSN Summer Academy

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Ensuring a more sustainable world requires leaders who are global citizens with sustainability mindsets. This is especially true in tourism as a global phenomenon with tremendous impacts on local communities and global society. This article presents the structure and preliminary outcomes of a pedago…

Developing a Conceptual Framework for Measuring Future Career Intention of Hotel Interns

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Many hotel management students show negative attitudes toward entering the hotel industry. Such attitudes are likely the result of a negative internship experience that may cause a young person to quickly turn away from the industry. At present, work-life balance is recognized as one of the top five…

A Review of Hospitality Internship: Different Perspectives of Students, Employers, and Educators

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The internship is one of the most effective models of experiential learning in hospitality education. However, to be successful, it requires the cooperation of students, employers, and educators. This article identifies the role and value of the internship in hospitality education. Its benefits and …

Is This for Real? Authentic Learning for the Challenging Events Environment

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This article explores a set of emerging competencies that education providers will be increasingly compelled to consider and, more importantly, embed in their event management course offerings. The undergraduate event management program offered at Victoria University, Melbourne, provides a case stud…

The construction of professional evaluation instruments for hospitality teachers in Taiwan's vocational schools

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The purposes of this study include the following: (1) establishing professional development criteria for hospitality teachers in vocational schools; (2) developing a self-rating scale for hospitality teacher professional development; and (3) constructing a combined teaching observation checklist. Th…

Key competencies of tourism graduates: The employers' point of view

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Several changes and developments (e.g., the changing labor market, growing worldwide competition, technological advances, and changing demand patterns in tourism) require new employability skills from graduates that enable them to cope with the changing circumstances of the tourism business world. U…

Training, satisfaction with internship programs, and confidence about future careers among hospitality students: A case study of Universities in Taiwan

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The purpose of this research is to investigate the factors associated with hospitality students' satisfaction with internship programs and the relationships between training, job satisfaction, and confidence about future careers in order to provide schools and industries with suggestions regarding c…

Undergraduate tourism and hospitality students attitudes toward a career in the industry: A preliminary investigation

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The purpose of this study is to examine the attitudes and perceptions of current undergraduate tourism and hospitality students in Australia toward careers in the industry. The study is exploratory and based on a quantitative approach. Areas that students have concerns over include respondent's rela…

Research on correlations between off-school internship systems and work performances in hospitality and tourism education

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The development of hospitality and tourism education in Taiwan in the past two decades brought forth various off-school internship systems to meet the needs of educational and business fields. This paper, with methods of literature review, interview, and pragmatic investigation, researched tourism-r…

A highlight of tourism and hospitality education issues in Taiwan: From the hospitality human resource manager's point of view

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This paper was written to explore the opinions of the hospitality human resource managers in Taiwan about current tourism and hospitality education provisions. Major issues regarding tourism and hospitality education in Taiwan were identified. Based on the research findings, a number of conclusions …