Tourism Higher Education Research Articles

Tourism Higher Education in Turkey

SUMMARY This paper discusses and evaluates tourism higher education in Turkey. Turkish universities have been offering associate, bachelor, and postgraduate degree programs in tourism since the early 1990s. However, there have been major problems and challenges in this endeavor, including the lack of qualified academic staff, improperly designed curriculums, limited practical training opportunities for students, and difficulties in keeping qualified graduates in the industry. So far, it is hard to claim that Turkey has developed contemporary tourism higher education policies and plans. If Turkey is to gain more from tourism in the long term, it is essential for the country to improve the standards of tourism higher education. However, to achieve this, some radical cultural and structural reforms are needed, not only in tourism higher education, but also in the country's overall higher education system.

The Past, Present, and Future of Hospitality and Tourism Higher Education in Hong Kong

SUMMARY Hospitality and tourism management programmes are widely available in Hong Kong. At present, there is no official publication on the history and development of higher education in hospitality and tourism management in Hong Kong. This paper aims to review the history and current status of hospitality and tourism higher education in Hong Kong, focusing on the programmes offered at sub-degree, degree, and post-graduate degree levels, and to explore future directions for its development.

Tourism Higher Education in China

SUMMARY This paper first reviews the origins and development of tourism higher education in China, then elaborates on its present hierarchy of programs, regional distribution and mechanisms for operating schools. Based on an investigation, the paper also discusses the educational objectives, program setup, curriculum design, textbooks and reference materials. It summarizes the problems and challenges China's higher education studies in tourism are facing, and in conclusion, it explores development trends and offers suggestions for its future.

Australian Tourism Education

SUMMARY An appraisal of Australian tourism education is undertaken by pursuing its historical development and the key issues of teaching locations, generic skills and graduate attributes, educator competence, human resource planning and how to assess performance. It is argued that Australia, when considered as a case study in the global context of higher tourism education, occupies a distinctive and relatively successful niche. The distinctiveness derives from both its late entry into the field and the status-oriented context in which it has grown. The success is characterised by a strong research-education nexus and the consolidation rather than loss of the degree offerings over time.

Ten Information Technology Trends Driving the Course of Hospitality and Tourism Higher Education

In a world driven by rapid technological advances, society has responded with an increasing dependence on this profound force. Technology in higher education may be an important tool for improving the quality of educational offerings and for gaining competitive advantage. However, despite this use of technology by higher educational institutions, hospitality and tourism programs have not kept pace with developments in the sector. This research effort examines ten growing technology trends currently impacting higher education. Utilizing a qualitative research process the ten themes were identified through the use of an electronic academic database containing hospitality education and technology articles. The influence of these technology trends on hospitality and tourism education is explored. The article concludes with an examination of sustainable technology development in hospitality and tourism education.

Meeting the Demand from Tourism Development-Higher Occupation and Technical Education in China

ABSTRACT This article outlined the emergence and phenomenal growth of higher occupation and technical education (HOTE) in China, and analyzed the characteristics of HOTE in relation to the human resource needs of China's growing tourism industry. The characteristics of tourism HOTE were examined in the contexts of specialization offerings, curriculum design, and instructional delivery and student evaluation. Comparisons were drawn between tourism HOTE and traditional four-year degree program, and between tourism HOTE and two- and three-year higher professional schools. Observations were made with regard to the greater employability of tourism HOTE graduates and their popularity with employers. The article concluded with the recommendation of an open system for higher tourism education that legitimizes the role of HOTE, and accommodates its coexistence with traditional four-year program, and two- and three-year professional schools.

From production line to drama school: higher education for the future of tourism

Tourism degree courses aim to meet the needs of students, employers and government funding bodies, but there is no agreement on how best to do this. Should courses aim to enable graduates to operate within the industry today, or to shape its future development? To what extent should these managerial goals be combined with those of a traditional liberal education? Is the business management focus of most tourism courses the best preparation for the future development of tourism? The relationship between education and industry is charted through past changes to the current debate on future directions. In the future, tourism will be part of the “experience economy” with a new theatrical metaphor replacing the current “military” strategy model. To succeed in this economy, graduates need to draw on qualities of self‐awareness, imagination and creativity. Higher education in tourism may need to rediscover these liberal humanistic values in order to fulfil its managerial objectives of creating successful business managers.

Global Tourism Careers? Opportunities and Dilemmas Facing Higher Education in Tourism

Global Tourism Careers? Opportunities and Dilemmas Facing Higher Education in Tourism

Stakeholders’ Views on Higher Tourism Education

Stakeholders’ Views on Higher Tourism Education

The evaluation of the teaching of individual academics in UK's tourism higher education: developing a construct for teaching profiles

The evaluation of the teaching of individual academics in UK's tourism higher education: developing a construct for teaching profiles

Reforms and Development of Higher Tourism Education in China

ABSTRACT Developed over the last two decades, higher tourism education in China has made a great contribution to the growth of the tourism industry, but is now faced with a variety of challenges in its further development. The article discusses the current situations and problems of higher tourism education in China, analyzes the causes of the problems and then puts forward suggestions to solve them.

Curriculum, Development and Conflict

ABSTRACT This article is a case study examining the process and products of THEME (Tourism Higher Education for Moldova with the EU), a curriculum development and innovation project. The project is part of the EU's Tempus Tacis plan to stimulate institutional modernisation and economic diversity in the NIS (Newly Independent State) region. A method for curriculum design and development is elaborated based on strategic management techniques. Specifically, three aspects of situational analysis are utilised. These are needs analysis, capability analysis and force field analysis. A curriculum, with supporting measures, is developed and presented based on the findings of this analysis. Finally a critical evaluation of the process and product finds conflict with opposing views providing different stories of success and failure for the project.

Relevance and Quality in Australian Tourism Higher Education

Partnerships between educators and industry professionals can facilitate students' tourism career opportunities. Considering this, a mail-out questionnaire was undertaken to assess the attitudes and perceptions of tourism educators (n = 56) and tourism professionals (n = 100) on tourism education issues. Results indicated that one-quarter of professionals believe university tourism majors provide graduates with a competitive advantage and both groups consider tourism/hospitality, marketing and management as important business majors. Competencies in logical thinking, social interaction, tourism knowledge and concepts, and generic skills are also considered important by both groups with specific workplace competencies and professional experience considered relatively less important by educators (p < .05). In conclusion, communication networks jointly facilitatedby academicsand industry are recommended.

Higher education in tourism: An entrepreneurial approach

The intention of the article is to demonstrate the importance of entrepreneurial orientation within a higher education in tourism. A study of students' assessment of the tourism course at the Faculty of Economics and Business in Maribor will be discussed 1) to highlight the entrepreneurial orientation of the course, and 2) to gain some information on the introduction of entrepreneurial and managerial skills into the new curriculum. In particular the paper may help to identify some directions for further development in this challenging education field in order to provide necessary skills in the small business within the Slovene tourism industry.

Research for industry and education: a report of the Autumn Conference of the UK National Liaison Group for Higher Education in Tourism

Research for industry and education: a report of the Autumn Conference of the UK National Liaison Group for Higher Education in Tourism

Managerial Behaviour and Effectiveness Perceptions of Female Managers in the Hospitality Industry

ABSTRACT This article, deals with the perceptions of female managers in four- and five -satar hotels at Marmara region upon their own managerial behaviour and effectiveness following a theoretical framework on managerial behaviour and female managers the results of an empirical research were presented and discussed. By means of a comprehensive questionnaire, female managers of were investigated according to their self-perceptions. The results were categorized by their levels in management, education, tenure and departments. After evaluating the general outlook of the sample according to these criteria of clustering, effectiveness perceptions, managerial behaviour and their comparative data were analysed. Conclusions indicate that female managers had usually higher tourism education, even though most of them had been placed at lower status levels. Significant was also their affirmative effectiveness perceptions. They seemed to attribute nearly the same importance to job-centered and human-centered types of managerial behaviour. Moreover, it was found out that the diversty of opinions on the effectiveness and behavioural dimensions had predominantly reflected themselves of the diversity of job-centered versus human-centered inclinations.

Tourism higher education in island microstates: The case of the South Pacific

University-level tourism education programmes in developing countries have generally been national rather than international in their orientation. This paper examines a programme which offers an exception to this rule, namely the Tourism Studies course at the University of the South Pacific (USP). Having considered the range of tourism courses offered throughout the region, the paper explains the rationale behind EC support for the USP initiative as a part of its commitment to regional tourism planning and development in the South Pacific. The needs of the tourism industry are evaluated with particular reference to the problems associated with offering education to tiny and scattered communities across the region. The cultural needs and background of participating students are assessed and the development of a course structure and course philosophy is explained.

Report on the progress of the working committee on higher education in tourism

The creation of this commission was unanimously agreed by the General Assembly of AIEST in Krakow, Poland in September 1977. The Commission met three times so far with a varied range of participants of different institutions involved in the education in Tourism. The meetings were held in Breda, Turin and at the University of Surrey, Guildford. In the first meeting the objectives of the commission were defined: