How Do Hospitality and Tourism Undergraduate Students Learn? From a Perspective of Learning Styles

Abstract

This theoretical paper presents the influence of learning styles and culture values on facilitating undergraduate students’ learning. Learning styles describe the way people process information. Many learning style inventories have been developed and applied widely, for example, Kolb’s Learning Style Inventory (LSI) and Honey and Mumford’s Learning Styles Questionnaire (LSQ). However, limited research has been conducted in the field of hospitality and tourism higher education, particularly in eastern culture. Past research in the hospitality and tourism higher education did not reveal if certain learning styles can contribute to better learning outcomes, however, there is a significant difference in preferred learning styles of students in terms of different cultural values. Therefore, it makes it pivotal to consider the influence of culture difference when examining how learning styles contribute to better learning outcomes in future research. Therefore, hospitality and tourism educators can properly plan useful strategies to accommodate different learning styles and enhance students’ learning.