"Tourism is much more than an economic sector, it is also a social, cultural, political, and environmental force that drives societal change. Understanding, responding to, and managing this change will inevitably require knowledge workers who are able toaddress a range of problems associated with tourism, travel, hospitality, and the increasingly complex operating environment within which they exist. The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an insightful and authoritative account of the various issuesthat are shaping the higher educational world of tourism, hospitality and events education and to highlight the creative, inventive and innovative ways that educators are responding to these issues. It takes as its central focus a dynamic curriculum space shaped by internal and external factors from global to local scales, a variety of values and perspectives contributed by a range of stakeholders, and shifting philosophies about education policy, pedagogy and teaching practice. A benchmark for future curriculum design and development, it critically reviews the development of conceptual and theoretical approaches to tourism and hospitality education. The Handbook is composed of contributions from specialists in the field, is interdisciplinary in coverageand international in scope through its authorship and content. Providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and hospitality education and its future direction this is essential reading for students, researches and academics in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, Recreation and Leisure Studies"--
Tourism is much more than an economic sector, it is also a social, cultural, political, and environmental force that drives societal change. Understanding, responding to, and managing this change will inevitably require knowledge workers who are able to address a range of problems associated with tourism, travel, hospitality, and the increasingly complex operating environment within which they exist.
The purpose of this Handbook is to provide an insightful and authoritative account of the various issues that are shaping the higher educational world of tourism, hospitality and events education and to highlight the creative, inventive and innovative ways that educators are responding to these issues. It takes as its central focus a dynamic curriculum space shaped by internal and external factors from global to local scales, a variety of values and perspectives contributed by a range of stakeholders, and shifting philosophies about education policy, pedagogy and teaching practice. A benchmark for future curriculum design and development, it critically reviews the development of conceptual and theoretical approaches to tourism and hospitality education. The Handbook is composed of contributions from specialists in the field, is interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content.
Providing a systematic guide to the current state of knowledge on tourism and hospitality education and its future direction this is essential reading for students, researchers and academics in Tourism, Hospitality, Events, Recreation and Leisure Studies.
Part 1: Introduction to the Handbook
1. Tourism, hospitality and events
education in an age of change David Airey, Dianne Dredge and Michael J. Gross
Part 2: Philosophical Foundations
2. The curriculum: a philosophic
practice? John Tribe
3. Ontological, epistemological and axiological issues
Johan R. Edelheim
4. On the practical value of a liberal education Kellee
Caton
5. The philosophical practitioner and the curriculum space Dianne
Dredge, Pierre Benckendorff, Michele Day, Michael J. Gross, Maree Walo, Paul
Weeks and Paul A. Whitelaw
6. Hospitality higher education: a
multidisciplinary approach to liberal values, hospitality, and hospitableness
Michael J. Gross and Conrad Lashley
7. Interdisciplinarity,
transdisciplinarity and postdisciplinarity in tourism and hospitality
education Michael Volgger and Harald Pechlaner Part 3: The Changing Context
8. Information technologies and tourism: the critical turn in curriculum
development Ana María Munar and Mads Bødker
9. Neoliberalism and the new
managerialism in tourism and hospitality education Maureen Ayikoru
10. The
role of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in the democratization of tourism
and hospitality education Barry OMahony and Gilly Salmon
11. Educational
mobilities: mobile students, mobile knowledge Kevin Hannam and Basagaitz
Guereño-Omil
12. Tourism Education Futures Initiative: current and future
curriculum influences Pauline J. Sheldon and Daniel R. Fesenmaier
13.
Teaching responsible tourism: responsibility through tourism? Richard
Sharpley
14. International issues in curriculum design and delivery in
tourism and hospitality education Paul Barron Part 4: The Curriculum Space:
from global to local
15. Tourism and hospitality education in Asia Cathy H.
C. Hsu
16. Tourism, hospitality and events curriculum in higher education in
Brazil: reality and challenges Roberta Leme Sogayar and Mirian Rejowski
17.
Educating tourism students in the South Pacific: changing cultures, changing
economies David Harrison
18. Challenges for the tourism, hospitality and
events higher education curricula in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Kenya
Melphon A. Mayaka and John S. Akama
19. Making the case for tourism in UK
universities David Botterill and Robert Maitland Part 5: Curriculum Delivery
20. Teaching about tourism in a post-disciplinary planning context Caryl
Bosman and Dianne Dredge
21. Promoting critical reflexivity in tourism and
hospitality education through problem-based learning José-Carlos
García-Rosell
22. Transforming tourism education through Web 2.0
collaboration:the case of the global TEFI courses Janne J. Liburd
23.
Approaches in the design and delivery of hotel/hospitality management
undergraduate degree programmes within Australia Noreen M. Breakey, Richard
N. S. Robinson and Matthew L. Brenner
24. Lifelong learning in tourism
education Yahui Su
25. Work-integrated and service learning at HAAGA-HELIA
Porvoo Campus in Finland learning for life Annica Isacsson and Jarmo
Ritalahti
26. Embedded research: a pragmatic design for contextual learning
from fieldtrip to fieldwork to field research in Australasia Ariane
Portegies, Vincent Platenkamp and Theo de Haan
27. Teaching service quality,
innovation management and other service considerations in the hospitality
management discipline:using digital technology to facilitate student learning
outcomes Robert J. Harrington, Michael C. Ottenbacher and F. Allen Powell
Part 6: Issues and Challenges
28. Design in tourism education: a design
anthropology perspective Kurt Seemann
29. The evolution of the employability
skills agenda in tourism higher education Petia Petrova
30. Employment and
career development in tourism and hospitality education Adele Ladkin
31.
Industry engagement with tourism and hospitality education: an examination of
the students perspective Rong Huang
32. Generation Y and the curriculum
space Pierre Benckendorff and Gianna Moscardo
33. Groundswell: a co-creation
approach for exploiting social media and redesigning (e-)learning in tourism
and hospitality education Marianna Sigala
34. Engaging students: student-led
planning of tourism and hospitality education the use of wikis to enhance
student learning Mandy Talbot and Carl Cater
35. Events higher education:
management, tourism and studies Donald Getz
36. Legend to launchpad: Le
Cordon Bleu, gastronomy and the future of education Roger Haden
37. What
makes Hotel ICON a teaching hotel? Tony S. M. Tse
38. Space for
sustainability? Sustainable education in the tourism curriculum space Andrea
Boyle, Erica Wilson and Kay Dimmock Part 7: Conclusions and Future
Directions
39. Creating the future: tourism, hospitality and events education
in a post-industrial, post-disciplinary world Dianne Dredge, David Airey and
Michael J. Gross
Dianne Dredge is Professor in the Department of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark. She has 20 years experience as a tourism and environmental planner in various locations including Australia, Canada, Mexico and China. Diannes research focus is on tourism planning, policy and governance with a particular focus on the role of the state, relational and discursive policy development, community participation and capacity building. She also undertakes research in higher education policy, teaching and learning. Dianne won an Australian National Carrick Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2007, and was Chief Investigator on the national project Building a stronger future: balancing professional and liberal education ideals in tourism and hospitality education.
David Airey is Professor of Tourism Management at the University of Surrey. He has been involved in tourism education for 40 years. He began his academic career at Surrey, then spent time with the UK Ministry of Education and with the European Commission before returning to academia in 1993. During his time at Surrey he has been head of School and Pro-Vice Chancellor, responsible for teaching and learning. He retired from his full-time post in 2009 and now continues at Surrey on a part-time basis. He currently holds a number of visiting professorships and fellowships and is in involved in a range of projects. His research focuses on matters related to education and to tourism policy. In 2006 he received the UNWTO Ulysses Award for his services to tourism education
Michael J. Gross is a Lecturer with the University of South Australia in Adelaide. Michael holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA) with a major in Hotel and Restaurant Management from the University of Denver, Masters Degrees in Education (MPET) and Business (MBA) from Deakin University, and a PhD from the University of South Australia. He has an extensive professional background in international hospitality management with some of the world's leading hotel firms. He currently teaches in hospitality and tourism programs at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. His research and publishing focus are on hospitality management and tourism management areas, with particular interests in international education, development and internationalization of hospitality firms, China hospitality industry, destination marketing, destination image, lifestyle tourism, consumer involvement, and place attachment.