Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2025)
Focusing on a single sport marketing unit, this research examines how authentic assessment with a digital deliverable influenced students' confidence, application and communication of sport marketing theories in real-world contexts. Data were collected through a mixed methods case study approach. St…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2025)
This study examines the impact of internships on soft skill development among hospitality students, focusing on communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence. Drawing on Experiential Learning Theory, applied to survey data from over 17,000 students at a U.S. university, analyzed with Partial L…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2025)
In hospitality education, it is important to cultivate students’ professional skills in reducing food waste for culinary professionalism and sustainable societal development. This study aims to explore the differences between hospitality students in Shanghai and Taipei in terms of their professional…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2025)
Throughout their educational journey, for college juniors and seniors, enhancing employability is crucial for boosting confidence and career prospects. Recent hospitality labor market challenges have limited job opportunities, increasing the need for educators to provide resources for career launch …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2023)
Given the current recruitment and retention landscape in the hospitality and tourism (H&T) industry due in part to unfavorable impressions of work in the industry and the post-pandemic exodus, hospitality and tourism management (HTM) students and interns are in high demand across the services indust…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2023)
Career expectations contribute to job satisfaction and worker persistence. The tourism industry is characterized by high staff turnover. The industry was decimated by the COVID-19 pandemic causing widespread unemployment and transforming working conditions, while radically altering educational condi…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2023)
This study aimed to investigate the efficacy of TikTok as a video aid on MICE (Meetings, Incentive Travel, Conferences and Exhibitions) learners' learning motivation and oral proficiency. The study sample include 60 MICE learners. Participants were equally divided into control and experimental group…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2022)
The purpose of the research was to explore the participants’ skill development while involved in the X Games Student Work Program work-integrated learning (WIL) opportunity for students. Using a phenomenological method, the study revealed the student development of hard and soft skills. Soft skills …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2021)
Espousing experiential learning theories, internships have captured the attention of tertiary education programs in almost all business-related fields. Due to their vocational nature, hospitality and tourism programs have been amongst the first to incorporate such experiences in their curriculum, wh…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2021)
This study examines how the career intention and enhanced employability following an industry internship can affect the career choice of students in Hospitality and Tourism departments. The results of 918 valid questionnaires were tested and supported proposed conceptual models of 9 hypotheses and 5…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2021)
The Industry 4.0 revolution is bringing major transformations in the tourism systems design suitable for technologically oriented consumers. Indeed, methods and technologies introduced by Big Data, Automation, Virtual and augmented reality, Robotics and ICT well fit with the Tourism 4.0 paradigm. Ho…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2020)
Building on the counseling psychology literature, this study examined the effects of each dimension of career decision-making self-efficacy (CDMSE) and career decision-making profile (CDMP) on hospitality students' career decision-making difficulties (CDD). A sequential regression analysis with 273 …
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2020)
Historically, the Romania economy competed on low wages, but since 2007 close to 4 million citizens emigrated, eroding that advantage and increasing spending on students and pensioners. Romania is looking for alternatives, and tourism, could be a possible solution, but tourism education needs to bec…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2020)
The study mapped the evidence about the internship in Sport Science courses by a scoping review. The used databases were Web of Science, Scopus, Scielo, Lilacs, Redalyc and Cinhal. The research strategy used the Boolean term AND with keywords selected in English, Portuguese and Spanish. Data collect…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2020)
This study examines the vocational discourse of Israeli students who participated in internships in Eilat hotels. By applying metaphor analysis, the study highlights positive and negative stereotypical images through which a hospitality career is portrayed in the examined discourse. The study conclu…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2018)
The purpose of this study was to explore the determinants of Chinese hospitality students’ career intentions in the hospitality industry and to compare the determinants of students from three-year versus four-year programs based on the theory of planned behavior. Results indicated that students’ car…
Published:Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Education
(2018)
A primary goal common across hospitality internship programs is to make students more employable. This study investigates enhanced competencies in employability leading to student satisfaction with an internship program and the relationship to key stakeholders in the program. The school and the stud…
