Situation analysis of tourism education in the city of Bandung

Abstract

The implementation of tourism education is one of the factors that can affect the sustainability of a region’s tourism. The success of a tourism destination depends on the quality of service and experience offered by the tourism workforce to tourists. Bandung as a tourism destination and center of higher education must be able to answer the needs of tourism human resources through the implementation of comprehensive tourism education. The purpose of this study is to analyze the situation of organizing tourism in the city of Bandung. The research method uses a qualitative approach with secondary data collection techniques such as articles, journals, reports, website pages of educational institutions, and policy documents related to tourism and human resource issues. Also, data collection in the form of a tourism education curriculum becomes a source of data in primary data collection techniques. The analytical method uses content analysis, exploration, and qualitative descriptive. The findings are expected to be able to answer the objectives of this study, which include identification of the distribution of tourism education programs and the existing conditions of affordability, accessibility, and accountability of tourism education programs in the city of Bandung.