Evaluating the Nexus Between Honesty and Integrity in the Hospitality and Tourism Teaching Industry

Abstract

Good teaching skills result from hard work and perseverance, for which teacher has to spend time structuring their lesson and session plan with optimum efforts. To be an effective teachers, they sometimes compromise their ethics and values. The paper discusses how entrepreneurship skills can be developed to make students job-ready and focuses on responses of hospitality and tourism faculty members to understand the challenges in offering quality. This paper analyses the honesty and integrity of tourism and hospitality academicians in contributing to quality education and skillsets required by the students. The study aims to fill the gaps identified by Iberahim et al. (2013) and map the hospitality academician perspective on student academic dishonesty. The research objective identifies the gap between honesty and integrity in teaching practices. The authors present findings and suggestions which emerged from the study. Finally, conclusions, recommendations are drawn for academicians to develop perspectives on academic dishonesty.