Tourism Vocational Education Research Articles

Research on the Teaching Mode of Transition Between Secondary and Higher Vocational Education Based on the Practice of Art Design—Taking Exhibition Planning and Management in Chengdu Tourism Vocational Education Group as an Example

The Chengdu Tourism Vocational Education Group aims to coordinate urban and rural comprehensive reform pilot area with service. Relying on the cultivation of tourism personnel and taking the win-win of its members as the basic goal, it trains talents with relevant enterprises and schools. The students majoring in exhibition planning and management of Chengdu Tourism Vocational Education Group are not art majors from, but can solve the problems of exhibition majors by studying art courses and applying art theory and practice. Nowadays our life is full of all kinds of design elements, such as our clothing, food, housing and transportation. As a result, tourism talents training not only takes art study as a professional education, but also as a general education. Therefore, it is a beneficial exploration for the exhibition planning and management to closely link up the teaching mode of the connection of secondary and higher vocational education based on the artistic design practice project.

Полиархичность знаниевой компоненты как проблема модернизации профессионального туристского образования

Modernization of vocational education in Russia is caused with the needs of intensification of innovative economic development of the country and the need for positive changes in social and cultural space of the Russian society. According to the program documents, the strategy of education modernization aims at changes of its content, resources, and conceptual installations in the education individualization, development and improvement of graduates’ competitiveness. Vocational tourism education in this article refers to the institutional and structural integrity of the educational environment in the field of tourism. Its purpose is training specialists for the Russian tourism as a developed integrated system which represents the most appropriate format for the solution of problems of modernization, as it has: unity industry competence framework of profession, opportunities for implementing optimal trajectories for the continuous professional development of students, integrating the factors of social and economic as well as social and cultural character, where the first one is the factor of integration in professional environment. Integrated environment is the conceptual unity in the understanding of competence models of graduates and in particular the knowledge component of the model. The aim of the study, which results helped to write this article was to identify the identity of their ideas about the knowledge component of training, as well as on the compliance of submissions of the universities to the ideas of the professional community that created the Project of the professional standard of a specialist in tourism on the example of a particular profession in tourism, which are taught in accordance with the purposes of the main educational programs of higher education, by different universities. The object of study is the model of the graduate schools in the field of vocational tourism education, the subject knowledge component of the model and its conformity with the view of the necessary knowledge of the professional community in tourism. For the purposes of the study there were selected 15 of the basic educational programs of higher education of various universities that train "managers of tourism". The educational programs belong to different areas of training ("Tourism", "Management", "Service", "Recreation, sports and health tourism", "Social and cultural service and tourism"); for their analysis there were identified three parameters: "results of education", "requirements for applicants", "the composition of knowledge components." The results of the analysis were compared with the results of the qualitative analysis of the knowledge components of professional standard. As a result of the comparative analysis there were identified polyarchy of knowledge components of programs, which is interpreted by the authors as the problem of formation of integral system of vocational tourism education and its modernization obstacle. As a solution the authors propose ensuring the openness and transparency of dialogue in inter-University discussion of the competence models of graduates of specialized training areas and in the development of approximate basic educational programs, and experimental implementation of the development results and regular monitoring of graduates’ professional socialization processes.

A comparison of the pre-education expectations, perceptions developed through the experience, and motivation of the students taking vocational tourism education

The quality of tourism education provided at vocational schools could be achieved through a two-way interaction between the school and the students. In order for tourism education provided at vocational schools aiming to train mid-level human resources for the tourism sector to be at desired quality, it is of paramount importance to know the levels of expectations, perceptions, and motivation of students, who are the most important elements of education.This study aimed to determine students’ pre-education expectations, perceptions developed in the education process and finally their motivation regarding the tourism education provided. Data were collected through questionnaires consist of a personal information and three scales (motivation, expectation and perception scales for tourism education). In this study, it was detected that the levels of expectations that 423 students receiving associate degree tourism education had prior to tourism education affected the levels of perceptions formed in the process and motivation positively. However, as a result of the fact that the expectations of the students who had high expectations prior to tourism education were not met during their experiences, their perceptions fell compared to the expectation and they had motivation at the rate of the perceptions formed. It was revealed that vocational schools were insufficient to meet student expectations.

Организационно-методологические основания разработки национальной концепции профессионального туристского образования России на международном опыте

This article outlines the main features of the study of organizational and methodological basis of the development of the national concept of vocational tourism education of Russia on international experience. The study was conducted from 2008 to the year 2016 and consisted of several stages. The first stage was characterized by the analysis of scientific literature on the problems of professional education in the field of tourism with the aim of defining paradigms of development, the specifics of the formation of the national industry model of education, the ratio of global and national interests in the simulation of the system of professional tourist education, methodology of pedagogical system study, conceptualization and modeling. During this period, was studied the world experi- ence of professional tourism education and identified 9 Western models of greatest interest in the context of the study: Australia, Austria, UK, Germany, Canada, Norway, Finland, France and Switzerland. The second stage was a program of experimental work and launched the preparatory phase of its implementation. Identified the characteristics of the actual public demand for specialists tourist profile; identified the dominant behavior patterns of graduates of tourism institutes; developed procedures and content of evaluation of professional competencies in tourism. The third stage was characterized by the generalization of theoretical and methodological approaches and of representations associated with the research and development of organizational-pedagogical conditions of implementation of the national system of professional tourism education. Was the experimental work with the aim of ascertaining the current status of personnel training for tourism in Russia, as well as testing a number of conceptual provisions of the theory of systemic organization of professional tourism education, concerning its structure (unity of subsystems: consumer, content, function and regulation), educational content and evaluation of its re- sults. During the fourth phase was analyzed organizational-pedagogical model of Western countries, summarized the results of their comparative analysis, which identified global trends and invariant constructs the international system of professional tourist education. At this stage, identified the essence and developed the conceptual basis of formation of national system of professional tourism education in the context of solving problems of modernization of the industry education and taking into account external trends and challenges. At the fifth stage was developed and piloted innovative courses, academic disciplines, and innovative training course of teachers training areas «Tourism» and «Hospitality»; the identified indicators of the level of satisfaction with the quality of the educational product consumers (employers of tourism and of graduates of educational institutions) on the effectiveness of technology praxiological learning in educational institutions in the field of tourism. This article describes the relevance of the main problem, object, subject, topic, hypothesis, aim, objectives and main results of the study.

Using Mobile Tools to Support Meaningful Work-based Learning in Vocational Education

This case study focused on meaningful work-based learning (WBL) and the pedagogical use of mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) in vocational tourism education. The aim was to reveal how teaching/tutoring and learning are realized and how the use of smartphones supports the realization of meaningful learning characteristics during WBL periods in highly versatile environments. Within a design-based research framework, the data was collected through learning journals written by students and qualitative interviews. The results of thematic analysis were used to develop a practice-oriented pedagogical model for meaningful WBL. The model visualizes the roles of students, teachers, and companies involved in WBL, the meaningful learning characteristics that can be amplified through the use of mobile ICTs, and the outcomes for each stakeholder. The model suggests structuring WBL through four negotiations involving a student, a teacher, and a company to assure that each student has clearly formulated learning goals and possibilities to pursue those goals regardless of the mobility of their work or facilities during their WBL period.

Seminar.net with special issue from Finland

Most of the world has learned to ”see to Finland” over the last decade, beacuse of its reputation as a leading nation in educational achievement, as well as its many creative and diligent approaches in technology. Since 1990 Finnish researchers in media, technology and education have met annually to discuss research matters and further advances in the area. For the conference of 2016, held 13-15th April in Hämeenlinna, Finland, we were asked to have the best papers published in Seminar.net. After a rigourous review process we will print six papers, four in this issue and two in the next.Antti Syvänen, Jaana-Piia Mäkiniemi, Sannu Syrjä, Kirsi Heikkilä-Tammi and Jarmo Viteli, all of the University of Tampere, present the paper “When does the educational use of ICT become a source of technostress for Finnish teachers?» This interesting paper is based on the analysis of questionnaires filled in by 2741 Finnish teachers. It provides significant insight into what causes teachers to experience stress and alienation when using information and communication technologies (ICT) in their classrooms.Tuulikki Keskitalo and Heli Ruokamo of Lapland University present a paper dealing with “Students’ Expectations and Experiences of Meaningful Simulation-Based Medical Education». Simulation in nursing education is a very rapidly developing area, and the students – as well as their teachers – have high expectation. This project is about student’s expectations and the very positive result from this study was that their experiences were even higher than their expectations.Hanna Vuojärvi, of the University of Lapland and Miikka Eriksson, of the University of Eastern Finland, have written the article «Using Mobile Tools to Support Meaningful Work-based Learning in Vocational Education» together. Their case study focused on meaningful work-based learning (WBL) and the pedagogical use of mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) in vocational tourism education. It demonstrates how the use of smartphones was applied in the project and its usefulness in the student’s work with the learning material.Antero Lindstedt, Kristian Kiili, Pauliina Tuomi and Arttu Perttula, all from Tampere University of Technology, Pori department provide the paper called “A user experience case study: two embodied cognition user interface solutions for a math learning game». They have used a particular game development environment, Semideus, to test out how different user interfaces influenced. They found interesting differences, mainly in favour of the «tilting user interface».

PRACTICE STUDENTS OF THE TOURISM UNIVERSITY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE STANDARD

The driving force of the system of higher professional education reform of the tightening of professional requirements. Competence-based approach to the results of higher vocational tourism education has become the subject of educational research and is getting obvious results. The system of higher professional education competence of future professional is evident in his practical activities. The quality of the on-the-job training depends on its proper organization for each course in the learning process of any tourist college. It is vital to observe the order of stages in tutor support, as well as in theoretical and practical training. Peculiarities of the practical training of students in any tourist college determine its significance for high-grade formation of the graduate. In accordance with Federal State Education Standard, the student on on-the-job training is an integral part of the basic education curriculum. It has been and still remains the most vital factor in the formation of professionally important qualities of the graduate, and provides the implementation of practical actions aimed at consolidation of theoretical knowledge.

Accommodation Business Management's Attitudes towards Employees Received Vocational Tourism Education

Despite the growing number of institutions which are giving tourism education at the level of high school or higher education, a lack of qualified employees has continued to be one of the main problems for the tourism industry in Turkey. According to researchers looking at former tourism students it is evident that after a while employees move away to other business sectors from that of tourism. The purpose of this research is putting forward the importance of employees who have had tourism education for the tourism industry. To this end, the hotel manager's perception of employees who had tourism education was specified. At the preparation of the research quantitative methods were used and in the data collection, survey methods were used. According to the research findings, hotel managers pointed out that, employees who had vocational tourism education had a positive contribution to the performance, profitability, productivity of businesses and customer satisfaction. Yet, another finding of the research, according to the hotel managers, is that the vocational education given is insufficient.

Internship Satisfaction of Students of Hospitality and Impact of Internship on the Professional Development and Industrial Perception

This study aims to determine the internship satisfaction of tourism students and the impact of their internships on their professional development and industrial perception. In line with this purpose, an implementation was conducted on the students of Akdeniz University Faculty of Tourism. This implementation involved a questionnaire form which was filled by 305 faculty students. The findings included demographic information; then three scaled questionnaire form which intended to determine the internship satisfaction, vocational tourism education, and professional development and industrial perception of the students was analyzed by taking mean scores of the scales of the form; using stepwise regression of the multiple regression analysis, the relations between the scales were shown, and the results were interpreted. The results showed that internship satisfaction of the students had a positive impact and impact by itself on professional development and industrial perspective, and together with vocational tourism education the students receive, this impact increased.

Research on Higher Tourism Vocational Education and Management Based on the Factor Analysis

The aim of this study is to explore the tourism management professional education reform from experiential learning perspective, focus on the tourism management education how to carry out experience learning concept, improve the overall quality of education, change the traditional education model and tourism management teaching practice experience learning thinking of macro policy and microcosmic operation. Based on the current situation of the domestic tourism education and management, we put forward the connotation of experiential learning, concept and characteristics. Taking the tourism management specialty of Changchun Vocational Institute of Technology reform as an example, we use the factor analysis method of mathematical model, in view of the difficulties of current domestic tourism education and management, improving and expanding the application range of experiential learning theory, from the angle of practice, strengthen the education for the industry to expand the demand to the talent, to promote the tourism management education and international development, from the tourism sustainable development angle optimization of tourism management and development strategy.

Tourism occupations and education: an exploration study

AbstractThis article contributes to the literature on the relationship between the tourism industry and vocational tourism education. It reports on an exploratory study of the work of a sample of tourism professionals and their education. The study attempts to classify tourism occupations by modifying an established scheme used in general administration. The study sought to find commonality within the diverse occupations and to go on to relate that to tourism education. The study found that the majority of the sample of 153 contained a common set of 24 activities. In educational terms, marketing, recreation and leisure and finance dominated as relevant subjects to study for tourism occupations. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Tourism employment: contingent work or professional career?

The period 1980‐1995 saw the emergence of a more professional Danish tourist sector, with increasing numbers of both employees and entrepreneurs possessing a formal degree or diploma of some kind. Investigates the profile of employees with dedicated training and finds that their educational background does not give them any particular advantages vis‐à‐vis employees with less relevant qualifications. The retention of employees is a critical problem in Danish tourism, but while turnover is extremely high among the unskilled, significantly better retention rates are found among those with a professional or vocational tourism education. Discusses the implications of the retention pattern, arguing that tourism shares its professional labour market with neighbouring sectors, and that the industry and educational support framework must therefore take account of this. However, there is a very real risk of losing the competition for the best‐qualified staff. Finally, it is postulated that tourism is a locus for new types of career concepts; however, we still lack a genuine understanding of the role of tourism for the contingent or boundaryless career.