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Human resources is a crucial factor in supporting the development of tourism as a labour-intensive industry. This research enhances the understanding of China's tourism education associated with the spread of COVID-19 and its implications for tourism recovery. Initial findings imply that: COVID-19 had a profound lagging negative effect on the intention to apply for tourism-related majors of examinees, which is severe challenging for tourism recovery, and the impact was more pronounced in typical tourism-dependent cities than in non-tourism-dependent cities. The MICE Economics and Management was least affected, while the Sports Tourism was most affected. © 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
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Some authors have alerted on the state of crisis generated by Covid-19 in the tourism industry worldwide. The restrictive measures disposed by governments generated not only an unparalleled economic crisis but also serious social maladies in society and education (i.e., higher dropout rates and low academic grades). Needless to say that the tourism education was in crisis much time earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic. Echoing Sigala and Ratten, the authors hold the pungent thesis that Covid-19 introduced a new opportunity to reform the epistemology and the basis of the tourism education curricula. Centerd on the role played by pleasure and joy, which is boosted by the digital technologies, this chapter synthesizes the findings of PANCOE, a successful experiment conducted by the University of Palermo, Argentina, to reduce the dropout rates while improving students' academic performance. The experiment was drawn and applied in the years before and after the pandemic. Results show how pleasure plays a vital role giving students better opportunities in contexts of fear and deprivation. © 2023 by Alejandra Zuccoli and Maximiliano E. Korstanje.
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Purpose: COVID-19 impacted the tourism sector, and its ripple effect is equally evident in tourism academia at all levels. Since innovation in tourism pedagogy is considered an epicentre of quality education, this study proposes an integrated model to identify the degree of pedagogical innovation adapted by tourism educators. The model is an amalgamation of innovation indicators in teaching practices developed by Sigala (2021), a futurist model developed by Wassler and Fan (2021) and a model of innovation developed by Brooker and Joppe (2014). Design/Methodology: The study is exploratory, and an online qualitative survey was used to collect data. Data were analysed using the Nvivo 12 software and three themes were drawn: Painters, Artists and Artisans. Findings: The study found that the majority of the tourism educators are painters as they adopted minor changes in their pedagogy. They follow the conventional methods of teaching by incorporating ICT into their pedagogy. Whereas a smaller group of tourism educators introduced innovative tools to encourage and equip students with professional skills (artists/artisans). Practical Implications: The study suggests practical implications for tourism educators to embrace and innovate their pedagogy to become 'artists/artisans'. The support of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and industry professionals are equally crucial for bringing innovation in tourism pedagogy and academia, in general, artisans. Originality: Given that tourism education has scantly been discussed following the breakout of COVID-19 (Sigala, 2020), the study addresses that resurrection of tourism pedagogy through an integrated model. © 2022 Pinaz Tiwari, Hugues Seraphin and Vanessa Gowresunkar.
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This research explores current tertiary tourism students' career strategies as impacted by Covid-19 as a career shock event, utilizing Bourdieuan career theory comprising career field, career capital, and its internal and external recognitions. Based on a phenomenological approach we conducted 24 semi-structured in-depth interviews with under- and postgraduate tourism management students enrolled at two New Zealand universities. Findings show that participants adopt a temporal lens. Short to medium term career strategies are flexible in that a temporary exit from the career field is considered until changes in the external environment occur. In the long-term participants remained committed to their initially chosen career field, hoping for a more progressive, innovative, and sustainable approach to tourism. The still unpredictable future of tourism posed challenges in assessing the future value of especially students' cultural career capital while increasing the need for additional social capital. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
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The study model structure so as to takes into explanation a changes to the hospitality as well as tourism trade due to COVID-19, consequent changes to trade learning mechanisms, along with the prospective implications in favour of work-integrated training internship placements on behalf of the upcoming generation of students, former students as well as trade experts, is offered. The configuration for future studies so as to evaluate COVID19 hospitality in addition to tourism business internship would-be approaches is projected in favour of conversation. The paper is an educational discussion which outlines showing analysis of virtual training, also online training, and internships during COVID19 in hospitality and tourism. [ FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Journal of Pharmaceutical Negative Results is the property of ResearchTrentz and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full . (Copyright applies to all s.)
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The study model structure so as to takes into explanation a changes to the hospitality as well as tourism trade due to COVID-19, consequent changes to trade learning mechanisms, along with the prospective implications in favour of work-integrated training internship placements on behalf of the upcoming generation of students, former students as well as trade experts, is offered. The configuration for future studies so as to evaluate COVID19 hospitality in addition to tourism business internship would-be approaches is projected in favour of conversation. The paper is an educational discussion which outlines showing analysis of virtual training, also online training, and internships during COVID19 in hospitality and tourism. Copyright © 2023 Authors. All rights reserved.
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The educational sector has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as the forced adaptation to online classes and students' lack of interaction and experience in practical classes. Because the hospitality and tourism industries require professional operations between guests and employees, this may cause concern among students who had to adapt to online classes during the pandemic about whether they have sufficient competencies to be recruited into the workplace. However, the internship benefits higher education institutions, industries, and students by examining the sufficiency of students' competencies in the workplace. Thus, this study aimed to determine the competencies of online learners that influence satisfaction in the employability of the hospitality and tourism industries post-COVID-19. The logistic regression models were established to predict the likelihood of competencies toward each satisfaction attribute. The empirical results showed that among five recruitment attributes, the competencies provided a predictor likelihood on three attributes: foundation, employability, and adaptability, while it had no likelihood on knowledge. The collaboration attribute reported the insignificant regression model. Moreover, only internship experience provided a significant result for the adaptive attribute. Moreover, the discussion and practical implications were provided in this study.
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Despite the increasingly severe manpower shortage in the hospitality industry and the emergence of the Covid-19 pandemic, different levels of learners of Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) in hospitality and tourism education have been largely neglected in literature. This study explores different levels of hospitality and tourism education learners' perceptions, motivations, obstacles, and perceived outcomes of MOOCs in Hong Kong. Data were collected from five focus group interviews. The findings show that MOOC learners could be categorised into 3 groups: i) Sub-degree and undergraduate learners who lack self-motivation, prefer flexible timing and with English as the main barrier to learn via MOOCs. ii) Postgraduate learners who have moderate motivation to learn via MOOCs, with the key determinants of knowledge acquisition, flexible learning, and electronic communication. They are capable and can self-regulate their learning paces. Lastly, iii) hospitality and tourism in-service learners have high motivation to learn via MOOCs, which provides a shortcut and flexibility for satisfying both employee and employer's requirements. © 2022 IEEE.
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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 pandemic. Qualitative analysis was performed on in-depth interviews of hospitality and tourism educators working in United States institutions. Analysis of the data resulted in four themes: Flexibility, Concern, Value, and Effective Communication. Practical implications point toward offering flexible work schedules whenever possible, demonstrating concern for employees through expressed interest in well-being and commensurate measures that promote it, and emphasizing they are valued, all through open and meaningful communication measures. The findings of the study also build on our understanding of organization support theory and perceived organizational and supervisory support during times of crisis. [ FROM AUTHOR]
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This paper provides deep insights and reflections by a group of teachers on the redesign of three postgraduate university courses in tourism management to a blended format during the Covid-19 pandemic. Like many others, we faced the common struggle of 'what' and 'how' to blend in uncommon circumstances whilst staying committed to maintaining excellent teaching and own wellbeing. To account for crucial nuances that normally are discarded in debates on higher education teaching and learning, our paper incorporates the author-teachers' emic, insider perspectives on extant realities. Through snippets of our shared, reflective logbook, we reveal the cognitive, affective and conative dimensions of teachers' experiences, while our findings point to the collaborative opportunities that come with managerial challenges during a transition to blended teaching. Based on our findings, we argue that collaborative redesign with, not for others is of paramount importance when transitioning higher education to blended and splendid teaching and learning.
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This timely paper explores the future of tourism and vocational career in the Covid-19 period from the perspective of undergraduate tourism students. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 30 students majoring in tourism faculty departments following the qualitative methodology. The findings demonstrate that vocational development and career planning in the Covid-19 era and the future of tourism are the main dimensions identifying students’ perspectives. The vocational and psychological pandemic effects are shaping the future career decisions of students. Furthermore, the future of tourism includes the elements related to tourist expectations and behaviours and trends in the (post-)viral tourism.
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This chapter examines the existing support systems available to educators and students for the implementation of travel and tourism education during the lockdown period following the declaration of COVID-19 as a pandemic. It also explores ways in which stakeholders, namely, policymakers, schools, travel and tourism educators, learners and others, should rethink and re-inforce the existing support systems to support travel and tourism education in an eventual educational crisis. A lack of subject-specific reports and literature on the ways travel and tourism educators and learners managed during the crisis justifies the importance of this chapter as it provides empirical evidence of a broad set of human experiences. The research design is conceptualized for a framework of future planning and response in crises for the continuity of travel and tourism education exploring change management approaches to coordination, critical processes and tools for rebuilding the support system for quality travel and tourism education. Methodologically, the voices and experiences of secondary travel and tourism educators facing teaching and learning through the period of crisis are gauged through interviews and discussion. This chapter informs about how the existing support system for travel and tourism education requires further reinforcement post COVID-19 to ensure access, equity, equality, gender equality protection, quality and continuity. © 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited.
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Purpose: The focus of the study is to identify the perceptions of the students, the hospitality and tourism organizations, and the tourism polytechnic concerning the internships conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as their perceptions of virtual internships. Design/methodology/approach: A survey method was used to collect the research data. Respondents comprised students from the six State Tourism Polytechnics (Perguruan Tinggi Negeri Pariwisata-PTNP), hospitality and tourism organizations, and the faculty internship coordinator & officials of each tourism polytechnics. Findings: The findings of the study indicated that the internship variables (student-focused issues, institution-specific issues, and organization-specific issues) were generally regarded as positive by the students, the hospitality and tourism organizations, and the tourism polytechnics. However, they all disagree on the issue of remuneration during the internship. There are seven items on which only PTNP stakeholders disagree, all of which pertain to the virtual internships variable. Research limitations/implications: The objective of the study is to enhance tourism and hospitality higher education internships in the new normal era through collaboration and internship creation aligned with industry demands. The study's respondents were primarily from Politeknik Pariwisata Bali (Bali Tourism Polytechnic), who generally presented a general image of Bali's diminishing tourism, which affected the internship program. Additional research should be conducted with a broader scope to allow for generalization findings. Originality/value: The study is highlighting the internships implementation during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well to explore the possibility if internships are carried out virtually.
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In 2002 John Tribe made an impassioned plea in the Annals of Tourism Research for Philosophic Practitioner education, education designed to equip graduates to think and act in the best interests of tourism business and the ‘wider tourism society and world’. In recent times, however, ongoing socio-ecological issues related to tourism arguably point to a lack of Philosophic Practice. In this context, we examined the experiences of students and staff involved with teaching and learning for Philosophic Practice and highlight the need to (re)commit to the key principles underpinning Philosophic Practitioner education. The potential limitations of human-centred conceptualisations of Philosophic Practitioner education are also discussed and addressed.
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Covid-19 pandemics had great impacts both in the manufacturing and service industries. Tourism is one of the service industries that had been affected in all its dimensions. Tourism services were heat as all modes of transport to a great extend have stopped after covid-19, but education continued by introducing on line systems all over the world including tourism education. Just before covid-19 the developments in tourism contributed to foreign exchange earnings, growth of the economies and also to employment. This paper aims to evaluate perceptions of tourism education students on online education. Self-reflection task was conducted to gather data from 98 tourism students. It is revealed that students had difficulty in using technological facilities, coping with projectbased activities and in using new modes of teaching and learning. As a result of covid-19 higher education systems together with tourism and hospitality education has moved to non-traditional tourism education such as hybrid and online education from traditional classroom settings. The resent changes have significantly changed the way instructors teach and engage students to this education environment. Innovative, cooperative strategies and technologies are needed to remove barriers on online education. This study aims to answer the questions on the perceptions of students regarding online education from students that have different cultures and also shed a light on the challenges and opportunities of online education in tourism. Qualitative research design was used for reflection report. Despite student life has become difficult online education contributed a lot to the student’s academic life for personal development. © 2021, National Defence University - Carol I Printing House. All rights reserved.
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COVID-19 is a pandemic that has affected over 170 countries around the world. Since the beginning of 2020 the world has witnessed dramatic changes in many sectors including the education system. The COVID-19 pandemic possesses a huge challenge in the way the traditional education system functions. In India, as the virus captured the community, students confined to their homes and academic community were forced to explore the medium of digital technology to provide education that reach beyond the school boundaries into the homes of millions of students. There are concerns from the stake holders in education about effectiveness of online teaching in comparison with social context of traditional class room learning. This study examines online learning in tourism higher education during the period of lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic. Study aims to identify the effectiveness of the online teaching during the lockdown period. It also discusses the possible benefits and disadvantages of using e-learning in higher education for tourism and identifies the effectiveness of various online platforms for e learning among tourism students. The reliability of the self made instrument used for data collection is measured using Cronbach’s alpha. To identify the factors, the Exploratory Factor Analysis has been used. Exploratory factor analysis increases the reliability of the scale and the dimensionality of items constructed by analysing the existence of relationships between perception of respondents and online learning. To validate the instrument, Confirmatory Factor Analysis was used while AMOS was used to construct an online education model. The findings of this study offer useful suggestions to academicians to get more familiar with the main factors of the e-learning system. The study also helps student community by identifying shortcomings in the online learning trajectories so that the online learning can be strengthened. The study is predominantly focused in the state of Kerala, India © 2021 Publishing India Group. All rights reserved.