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Assessing the impact and challenges of AI-based language models on the education sector: a proposal for new assessment strategies and design Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Anh Viet Le, Warren Metzger
This paper examines the potential impact of AI-based language models on education, with a specific focus on the ChatGPT model developed by OpenAI. The study begins by providing an overview of the c...
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Understanding the relationship between individual characteristics, self-efficacy beliefs and career aspirations of generation Z in tourism and hospitality: can gender and major make difference? Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Ayman Harb, Yousra Harb, Wejdan Alakaleek, Fawwaz Ali Alhammad, Nidal Alzboun, Saleh Al-Omar
This study aims at investigating generation Z career aspirations process by applying the self-efficacy theory and the Five-Factor Model (FFM) to examine the relationship among individual characteri...
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Are we teaching the right things? Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Bob McKercher, Cora Un in Wong, Lianping Ren
Are we teaching the right things to our students? We do a great job of teaching hard skills but is there enough focus on the type of soft skills employers want? This commentary suggests not. Most h...
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From promises to reality: lessons from Rio’s 2016 Olympics Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Chin-Hsun (Ken) Tsai, Ching-Hui (Joan) Su, Li-Chun Lin
This case study examines the sustainability promises made before and actual practices during the Rio 2016 Olympics. It emphasizes the need for accountable leadership, effective governance, and tran...
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Tourist destinations: structure and synthesis Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Salem Harahsheh
Published in Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism (Vol. 24, No. 1, 2024)
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Do curricular and extracurricular activities impact entrepreneurial intention and implementation among hospitality and tourism students? The role of attitude, self-efficacy and uncertainty avoidance Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Manoj Kumar Sharma, Mohit Jamwal
By theorizing Entrepreneurship education as curricular (CA) and extracurricular activities (ECA), this research attempts to offer a more nuanced understanding into the underlying mechanisms on how ...
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Teaching hospitality and tourism students’ strategies for recognizing and supporting mental health conditions and crises in industry: an exploratory study Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Annamarie D. Sisson, Melanie Peele, Zoe Sisson
By addressing the academic imperative for mental health education and crisis intervention, this exploratory study evaluates the desirability and availability of undergraduate education in recognizi...
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Investigating the effectiveness of conventional hospitality education curriculum in shaping Millennials’ career commitment: an empirical inquiry Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Feri Ferdian, Mohd Salehuddin Mohd Zahari, Mohd Onn Rashdi Abd Fatah, Zuraini Mat Issa, Mohd Hafiz Hanafiah
This research paper investigates the impact of conventional curriculum design in hospitality programs on Millennials’ commitment to a career in the hospitality industry. Quantitative data was colle...
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Exploring the mediating role of attitude in the investigation of rural tourism entrepreneurial intention among tourism students Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Waseem Ahmad Bhat, Zubair Ahmad Dada, Reyaz Ahmad Qureshi
Rural tourism entrepreneurship plays a significant role in the economic development of many regions. To contribute to our understanding of this field, this study explores the relationship between t...
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Developing effective mentoring programs in hospitality higher education: a practical perspective using the mentoring framework Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Edmund Goh, Scott Richardson
Mentoring programs in hospitality curricula play a critical role in student engagement and graduate success. Good mentoring programs increase the overall quality of the student experience and profe...
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Post-pandemic education: hospitality program revisit Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Chong Ka Leong, Salena Fong Ching Yung, Alice Yong Ching Hua, Lai Seow Chyi
Inadequate understanding of how hospitality education should be approached indicates that learners may face difficulties adapting to future workplaces in the post-pandemic era. This study investiga...
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Sustaining the experience: students’ perceptions of online field trips Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-12-28 Ali Abdallah, Christopher S. Dutt, Ruth Pijls-Hoekstra
COVID-19 caused significant disruption for all industries, including education. Many studies, including tourism, utilise field trips to support student’s learning, which were moved online in respon...
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Online learning during the COVID-19 era: the antecedents of continuance intention and communication channel satisfaction from learners’ perspective Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Orhan Uludag, Souad Hassanie, Georgiana Karadas, Emilija Morkunaite
Building on the Flow theory and Stimulus-Organism-Response framework, this study investigates the impact of online platforms’ technological environment and communicator competence on learners’ cont...
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Trekking through the COVID-19 challenge: a case study of Junoon Adventures Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Parijat Lanke, Sumit Banerjee
The travel and tourism industry was one of the worst hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. The impact of the pandemic was still weathered by the large companies with capital, but smaller travel and tourism...
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What can hospitality educators learn from students about effective teaching and learning at the beginning of an asynchronous, online class? Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Cynthia S. Deale
This Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study focused on finding out about hospitality students’ perceptions of teaching and learning, and their learning preferences, at the beginning of a...
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Measuring service quality perceptions of hotel management institutes on hotel recruiters’ hiring intentions: effect of sacrifice, satisfaction and service value Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Pratik Ghosh, Deepika Jhamb, Larry Yu
This study examined how service quality by institutes of hospitality management (IHM) in India affected hotel recruiters’ behavioral intentions of returning to campus for sustained recruitment acti...
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Meaningful short-term study abroad experiences: the role of destination in international educational tourism Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-06-12 Marina Iskhakova, Andrew Bradly, Dana L. Ott
Short-term study abroad (STSA) programs are one of the most dynamic segments of international educational travel and tourism. Our study utilizes experiential learning theory (ELT) to investigate an...
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Reversing the threat of artificial intelligence to opportunity: a discussion of ChatGPT in tourism education Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-30 Liubov Skavronskaya, Arghavan (Hana) Hadinejad, Debbie Cotterell
ABSTRACT The role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the education sector has received considerable attention from scholars; however, its potency and application among tourism learners are yet to be discerned. Accordingly, this research note articulates the potential impact and limitations of the AI chatbot, ChatGPT, in tourism education practices. In particular, the paper aims to raise awareness among
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The Wild Dog Estate, Australia: a case study in maximizing boutique winery profitability and business resilience Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-03-19 Richard Whitfield, Leon Juffermans, Gert Noordzy, Paul Dean
This case study explains how and why the Wild Dog Estate, a boutique winery in Australia, has successfully evolved and attempted to maximize its revenue streams and the profitability and the resili...
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Travel motives and constraints affecting student participation in a proposed study tour Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Chachaya Yodsuwan, Patcharaporn Bunlueng, Ken Butcher
While experiential learning activities undertaken through study tours are a valuable component of undergraduate student training, not all students seek to participate. This paper addresses the lack...
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Experiential learning and hospitality research for the public good: a study of DUI and the F&B industry Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Stephen W. Litvin, Jillian Wilkie, Crystal Lindner, Melinda Patience
ABSTRACT This paper reflects the findings of research that studied DUI [driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs] issues in Charleston, South Carolina, a tourism-oriented Southern USA city. The results of that study provided local police with a detailed analysis of the city’s DUI arrests over an extended period of time and provided recommendations for both deterrent and enforcement improvement
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Perceptions of best practices for higher education administrators in times of crisis Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Miranda Kitterlin-Lynch, James Arthur Williams, Andrew Moreo, Lisa Nicole Cain, Tianyu Pan
ABSTRACT The combination of remote teaching, family care-taking responsibilities, quarantine, and furloughs and layoffs for faculty and students alike has arguably put hospitality and tourism educators in a uniquely challenging space. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify best practices for higher education administrators during times of crisis, using the case of the COVID-19 global
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Stakeholder perceptions of university-industry collaboration on tourism and business students’ employability in two continents Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-11-20 Ikechukwu O. Ezeuduji, Antonia T. Nzama, Gugulethu S. Nkosi, Thembekile P. Kheswa, Allucia L. Shokane
ABSTRACT This study explored whether the teaching environment of six universities across Finland, United Kingdom, and South Africa are currently producing the competencies required by the industry. It also assessed the effects of university-industry collaboration activities on students’ work readiness and employability. The research adopted mixed method approach to data collection. Structured questionnaire
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Hospitality and tourism students’ perceptions of effectiveness of entrepreneurship education and its effect on entrepreneurial intentions: a cross-lagged two-wave mediation study involving entrepreneurial self-efficacy Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-10-13 Sharma Manoj Kumar, Badrinarayan Srirangam Ramaprasad, Nidhish Rao, Mohit Jamwal
ABSTRACT Relative to the research interest in the role of hospitality & tourism (H&T) entrepreneurship education (EE) in students’ entrepreneurial intentions (EI), less focus has been on the underlying mechanisms that explain the relationship between the two. Accordingly, based on the data collected from a sample of 113 H&T students in two waves of this research (15 months apart), this study examined
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Advancing hospitality and tourism education and research through global crises Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Jieyu (Jade) Shi, Liping A. Cai, Kara Wolfe
Published in Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism (Vol. 22, No. 3, 2022)
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The impact of entrepreneurship education on tourism students’ entrepreneurial intention in South Africa Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-10-10 Sibusiso D. Ntshangase, Ikechukwu O. Ezeuduji
ABSTRACT This paper explores the impact of entrepreneurship education on tourism students’ entrepreneurial intention, and insights of the desirability and feasibility of starting a tourism-related business upon graduation. A structured questionnaire survey was used to collect data from 154 randomly selected tourism students in a comprehensive University in South Africa. Data analyses included descriptive
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Becoming a part of the destination: a model for teaching tourism landscape Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-10-07 Öznur Akgiş İ̇lhan, Tuğçe Özoğul Balyalı, Semra Günay Aktaş, Mieke Witsel
ABSTRACT This paper seeks to explore the role of the experiential learning method in teaching tourism landscape. A model has been developed to teach tourism landscape through analysis on the basis of Kolb’s experiential learning theory. The sample group consists of sixty-five high school students aged 14–18 years. The proposed model was designed in three parts using a mixed research design; fieldwork
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Modelling the relationship between higher education service quality, student engagement, attachment, satisfaction, and loyalty: a case of a Malawian public university Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-10-06 Zandivuta Kankhuni, Cecilia Ngwira, Michael Bennett Sepula, Fanuel Kapute
ABSTRACT While higher education service quality (HESQ) has emerged as a key determinant of sustainable competitive advantage for universities, its impact on important student outcomes such as student satisfaction, attachment, engagement, and loyalty, remains under-researched. Based on the extant literature, the current study seeks to assess the impact of HESQ on student satisfaction, attachment, engagement
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Hospitality graduates’ career intentions during COVID-19: evidence from Malaysia Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-09-28 Kok Ann Ng, Alexander Trupp, Charuwan Phongpanichanan
ABSTRACT In the context of COVID-19 and a transforming industry, it is important to evaluate future hospitality graduates’ commitment and motivation towards work and employment. This research thus asks, how do future hospitality graduates make career decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic? The theoretical framework draws on Positive Psychological Capital (PsyCap) and Social Cognitive Career Theory
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Leadership skills with classroom instruction integration in hospitality management higher education Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Annamarie D. Sisson, Kevin R. Roberts
ABSTRACT To move from the gap between industry and academia, educators must review and change instructional content to meet industry demands. By addressing the industry imperative for leadership skills, this exploratory study evaluates the most prominent leadership style among faculty who implement leadership pedagogy in the classroom. The researchers surveyed hospitality management faculty through
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A European student perspective of international internship value Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-08-21 YunYing (Susan) Zhong, Kevin Murphy, Jalayer Khalilzadeh, Riana Madison Smith, Jeffrey Weinland
ABSTRACT Despite the European Union’s current interest in promoting global skill development for hospitality and tourism professionals, international internships for European students remains an under-investigated topic. This study applied the concept of “value” from marketing literature to understand hospitality and tourism students’ satisfaction and loyalty intention of international internship programs
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Benefits and challenges of online collaborative learning from the perspectives of non-traditional event management students: a comparison between asynchronous and synchronous learning Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Shinyong Jung, Hhye Won Shin, Ali Gohary, Eugene Y. Chan
ABSTRACT This paper examines non-traditional students’ perceived benefits and challenges toward online collaborative learning (OCL) in general and how those perceptions are presented differently in two different course delivery modalities (asynchronous and synchronous). A content analysis of student surveys demonstrates some positive and negative aspects of OCL employed in two event management courses
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The times they are a-changin: pedagogy’s pandemic paradigm shift Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-19 Angela Durko
ABSTRACT COVID-19 may have left scars and negatives on our society, environment and industries. However, it can’t be denied silver linings emerged and may be a much-needed paradigm shift academia has been lacking. This case study utilized feedback from university students enrolled in a course new to the synchronous format. It revealed students’ perceived benefits of synchronous learning environments
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Crisis remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic: a global case study in tourism Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-17 Claudia G. Green, Amanda Copeland, Viral Nitinkumar Karia
ABSTRACT This case study demonstrates the successful application of online learning theories and principles during the COVID-19 pandemic which was the world’s largest experiment in remote learning. It examines the challenges, opportunities, and constraints to effective teaching and learning during this unprecedented time from the perspective of the educators and students, as well as the lessons learned
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A light in the dark – Black consumer motivation in dark tourism Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Surjeet Baidwan
ABSTRACT This article presents a qualitative phenomenological study designed to explore Black consumer behavior, namely motivation to visit a contemporary dark tourism site in urban America. This aspect of Black consumer behavior was examined to fill a gap in the literature regarding what motivates Black people to visit places where death and suffering have famously occurred, especially in contemporary
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Developing undergraduates’ research competences through a tourism destination management course Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Joana A. Quintela, Marília Durão
ABSTRACT The levels of complexity and the changing environment in which the tourism industry operates, require critical and reflective tourism practitioners. Consequently, and considering the need for students to develop analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills, this article explores the research experiences of undergraduate students, focusing on the process of developing an independent
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Developing self-efficacy through transformative field experiences in tourism pedagogy Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Emily Pauline Yeager, Stefanie Benjamin, Alana Dillette, Andrew Goad
ABSTRACT This case study aims to provide higher education instructors a template to design service-learning courses that wish to not only further transformative pedagogy in tourism education, but also inform the development of students’ self-efficacy in critically examining social equity and justice at a personal and community level. The case illustrates transformative field experiences, both in person
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Enabling students critical thinking dispositions in hospitality financial management Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-06 Rekha Maniram
ABSTRACT Several studies suggest that graduates lack the critical thinking skills required for problem-solving and effective financial decision-making in the hospitality industry. Since higher education may not be able to meet all the demands and needs of the hospitality industry; such institutions struggle to provide students with the necessary critical thinking skills. Authentic assessment is one
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Practical teaching tips on designing authentic assessments in Tourism, Hospitality and Events (THE) higher education Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Effie Steriopoulos, Edmund Goh, Tracy Harkison
ABSTRACT This paper presents practical teaching tips on how to design authentic assessments in THE education. As higher education providers are placing more emphasis on preparing students to be job ready, resulting in pivoting courses to deliver new approaches due to the pandemic. Considering new frameworks that assist in student learning and positive student experience are now essential. New ways
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Revisiting a destination image model in the social media context Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Heelye (Jason) Park, SoJung Lee
ABSTRACT Given the growing importance of social media (SM) for tourism promotions, the present study examined a destination image model that includes SM as image formation agents (IFAs) (autonomous, induced, and organic), cognitive image (attractions and support), affective image, and social distance as a moderator, grounded in construal level theory. With the sample of tourists (N = 699), structural
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Service-learning during the pandemic through a tourism geography course Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-07-04 Suh-hee Choi
ABSTRACT This case study illustrates the challenges and strategies adopted by the instructor and the Tour Dure producer in designing a tourism geography service-learning course during the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on a teaching experience in a course titled “Tourism Place Management Project” which involved collaboration with Tour Dure businesses in Goesan County of South Korea. In so doing, the
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Enhancing online courses with civic engagement through service learning Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Julie Dort, Mimi Gough
ABSTRACT During the past two years, faculty pivoted their face-to-face courses to an online platform in haste due to the pandemic, while others were fine-tuning their online offerings having already made the transition. Although each one was integrating curriculum either for the short term or in continuation for the foreseeable future, one teaching principle, Service-Learning (S-L), seems to have never
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Double-edged perspectives on service robots: working with robots and robots’ future career impacts Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Faruk Seyitoğlu, Ozan Atsız, Sedat Taş, Fazıl Kaya
ABSTRACT This study investigates the perspectives of undergraduate tourism and hospitality students on working with robots and the influence of the widespread use of robots on future careers. Accordingly, interviews were conducted with thirty students. The findings include two main categories: working with robots in the tourism and hospitality industry (advantages of working with robots, disadvantages
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Factors influencing student satisfaction and intention to stay in the hospitality and tourism program Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-05-15 Jung-in Stephanie Bae, Haeik Park, Tony J. Kim
ABSTRACT This study aimed to study factors affecting hospitality and tourism student satisfaction and their intention to stay in the program. A model with nine factors was proposed and tested. The results showed that curriculum, hospitality & tourism degree commitment, student life, self-efficacy, and goals positively affect undergraduate student satisfaction with the program whereas curriculum, hospitality
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Zimbabwe tour guide training challenges: perspectives from tour guides in Victoria Falls Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Brighton Hurombo, Getrude Kwanisai, Ngonidzashe Chiedza Mutanga
ABSTRACT The study sought to explore the training challenges being faced in Zimbabwe’s tour guiding sector as perceived by the tour guides. A qualitative research methodology was followed whereby an interview guide was administered to 46 tour and field guides in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. Purposive and snowball sampling techniques were applied to identify respondents. Data was thematically analysed
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Fixed and in flux: the identity of a hospitality degree program at a Canadian community college Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-04-05 Adam Weaver, Heather Clark
ABSTRACT This paper applies the concept of identity – typically associated with individuals and self-definition – to the study of a degree program, a collective educational enterprise. Faculty members and senior administrators at a community college in Canada with ties to the development of a hospitality degree program were interviewed. This paper examines identity within a different empirical and
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Keep CUP the good work! Is sustainable consumption a promise or all talk? Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Chin-Hsun (Ken) Tsai, Ching-Hui (Joan) Su, Li-Chun Lin, Eric A. Brown
ABSTRACT Plastic waste has now spread to every corner of the globe. To avoid wreaking additional havoc on our world, wholesale change is needed. Collaboration, creative rewards, forward-thinking businesses, and consumer demand are all needed for viable and sustainable changes. Starbucks believes a call to action is necessary not only to innovate more environmentally friendly solutions but also to share
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Effective mentoring in a work-integrated learning (WIL) program Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-03-30 Jie Wang, Chelsea Gill, Kuan-Huei Lee
ABSTRACT Work-Integrated Learning (WIL) programs play an important role in the learning experience of students in higher education and are widely used in many institutions. Within a large public research-intensive university in Australia, WIL approaches are used in many faculties, although this paper is focused on WIL within the tourism discipline. One of the capstone subjects in the undergraduate
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A study of online hospitality management students’ information literacy Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-03-25 Cynthia S. Deale, Kathryn Webb
ABSTRACT This Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) study focuses on understanding more about how hospitality management students enrolled in online courses define and use information literacy, and what they think is meaningful with regard to information literacy skills connected to their major field of study, before and after completing an online module about information literacy. Students enrolled
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Developing the Meridian Adventure Dive Resort: a modular construction case study Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-03-13 Richard Charles Whitfield, Li-Chun Lin, Gert Noordzy, Liberty Tatenda Chirumiko
ABSTRACT This is a case study on the development of the Meridian Adventure Dive Resort in Indonesia. Considering the local situation and the target guest for the Resort, this case study explains why modular construction was the best way to build most of the property instead of using traditional in situ construction methods. This case study further explains how the Resort was designed and built and
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Examination of relationships among technology acceptance, student engagement, and perceived learning on tourism-related MOOCs Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Devkant Kala, Dhani Shanker Chaubey
ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between student technology acceptance, student engagement, and perceived learning on tourism-related massive open online courses (MOOCs). The respondents include 389 Indian university students who took tourism-related MOOCs. The results of PLS-SEM indicate the weak relationship between MOOC technology acceptance and the perceived learning of students
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Re-purposing tourism: engaging our radical in tourism education Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-02-06 Karla A. Boluk, Carrie Herzog, Kajsa G. Åberg, Daniela Freund
(2022). Re-purposing tourism: engaging our radical in tourism education. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism: Vol. 22, Re-purposing tourism: Engaging our Radical in Tourism Education. Guest Editors: Karla A. Boluk, Kajsa G. Åberg, Carrie Herzog and Daniela Freund, pp. 1-5.
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A collective memory work reflection on planning and pivoting to a virtual TEFI11 conference Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-02-02 Karla A. Boluk, Brendan Paddison, Johan Edelheim
(2022). A collective memory work reflection on planning and pivoting to a virtual TEFI11 conference. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism: Vol. 22, Re-purposing tourism: Engaging our Radical in Tourism Education. Guest Editors: Karla A. Boluk, Kajsa G. Åberg, Carrie Herzog and Daniela Freund, pp. 90-103.
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Values, emancipation, and the role of knowledge in tourism education. A critical realist perspective Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2022-01-03 Cecilia de Bernardi
ABSTRACT Values are important in education and their role in university studies is central in tourism teaching as well. How values are communicated to students is an important aspect of our axiological approach. In order to promote a fruitful approach to values in the students, this conceptual paper discusses the role of theoretical knowledge in achieving empowerment for the students based on the tenets
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Teaching wildlife tourism management: reflections on culture, nature, and wildlife Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-26 Jessica Aquino
ABSTRACT This article describes of an elective wildlife tourism management course at the University of Lapland. This teaching/learning course focused on blending theories used in place-based education to help students better grasp and explore their philosophical understanding of culture, nature, and wildlife and how these affect management actions. The research used arts-based methodologies as a tool
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Cultivating deep learning in field-based tourism courses: finding purpose in “trouble” Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-19 Maggie C. Miller, Helene Balslev Clausen, Carl Cater
ABSTRACT Despite well-established links between travel, learning and education in tourism studies, there is scant discussion around the ways in which “trouble” emerges and unfolds in experience-based and field course-learning scenarios. This exploratory research aims to understand this neglected aspect of tourism education, drawing attention to its pedagogical value and to debate the purpose of trouble
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Determinants of online learning efficacy and satisfaction of tourism and hospitality management students during the COVID-19 pandemic Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Shyju P.J., A. Vinodan, Poonam Sadekar, Meera Sethu, Rinzing Lama
ABSTRACT Conceptual model was developed to examine the probable relationship between determinants of online learning efficacy and satisfaction of Tourism and Hospitality Management students during COVID-19 Pandemic in India. An online survey was carried out for data collection to garner the variables for analysis and test the relationship. The result indicates that the intrinsic factors have a significant
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Extending the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport: a modular hotel construction case study Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Richard Charles Whitfield, Gert Noordzy, Li-Chun Lin
ABSTRACT The hospitality and tourism industry is growing worldwide with more new hotel buildings and extension projects. The process of developing a new hotel seems to be rarely considered in most hospitality and tourism curricula. Moreover, hospitality management students are rarely exposed to the important and well-defined discipline of project management, but clearly, developing a new hotel is a
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Vocational education in tourism at schools and colleges of Himachal Pradesh, India: a qualitative inquiry on challenges encountered by trainers Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-12 Amit Gangotia, Ketan Bhatt, Saurbh Kumar
ABSTRACT The rapid growth of travel trade in India has propelled the demand for well-trained and qualified personnel. To foster the quality skills and knowledge among the potential workforce, the role of teachers/trainers has been indispensable. Therefore, it is essential to properly address the needs of educators. The present study aims to identify and analyze the challenges of vocational (tourism)
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Developing an understanding of the early collegiate student experiences in hospitality and tourism Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism Pub Date : 2021-12-06 Donald G. Schoffstall, Eric A. Brown
ABSTRACT Students arrive on campus with diverse experiences and backgrounds, which can directly impact their performance and retention. By developing a better understanding of who students are as they enter hospitality programs, instructors will be better equipped to ensure the students have a positive collegiate experience and are better prepared to enter industry post-graduation. This research included