Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
The hospitality industry faces ever-evolving challenges and revolutions in the digital era. This study explores how the extensive incorporation of new technology necessitates specific transformations in practices within the hospitality industry. It further examines the desired competencies that educ…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
In the rapidly evolving post-pandemic era, the tourism industry struggles to find new talent and (re)define the (new) skills this talent should have. Higher education institutions’ challenge is preparing graduates in light of the hazy expectations of the tourism industry. This study investigates how…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
The tourism sector heavily relies on the contributions of tourism students to deliver quality services. However, for various reasons, some students seek employment opportunities outside the tourism sector. The current situation in many countries is marked by the loss of skilled workers and the diffi…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
This paper aims to refine study program designs inclusively and diversely to enhance employability skills crucial for the tourism industry. Graduates of tourism study programs completed a self-assessment survey to gauge their employability skills, complemented by an analysis of the tourism industry …
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
Project-based learning (PBL) is a student-centered and experiential approach that encourages active learning by involving students in the examination of real-world problems within a collaborative environment. This study aims to develop a PBL environment based on information and communication technol…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
This study examines the link between lecturer competencies and student satisfaction in the hospitality and tourism higher education sector, with a focus on how institutional reputation mediates this relationship. Using a quantitative approach and a correlational study design, the research employed n…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges, significantly affecting economic development, the hospitality industry, and the educational sector. In Taiwan, internships are a mandatory component of Hospitality Management studies, offering students critical exposure to real-world environm…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
This study explores the attractiveness of tourism polytechnics and their impact on students’ career decisions. The background of this study is the increasing interest of students in choosing the field of tourism despite the challenges in this sector. The method used was a quantitative approach with …
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2025)
The study explores concerns from employers about graduates’ limited theoretical and practical skills, despite the inclusion of experiential learning (EL) in hospitality and tourism curricula aimed at enhancing industry readiness. Focusing on Malaysia’s community colleges through interviews with lect…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2024)
Blended team-based learning (BTBL) has become a popular pedagogical method in tourism and hospitality (T&H) education. However, its efficacy in developing industry competencies remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by applying Social Learning Theory to examine how BTBL constructs perc…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2024)
The continuous assessment of the provided tourism education and training is beneficial and should be offered according to ever-changing industry needs. The current study’s main objective is to evaluate the Greek tourism education provided by Greek institutions at all levels (industry needs and emplo…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2024)
Although there is a growing understanding that college students need to develop a wide range of knowledge, skills, abilities, and personal resources for career success, it is necessary to address students’ major expectations in their future careers. The primary purpose of this study is to explore st…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2024)
This paper applies bibliometric and integrative review approaches to examine the pattern of growth, conceptual and social structure of hospitality and tourism internship research using 167 articles retrieved from Scopus database published between 1986 and 2020. The contribution of journals, scholars…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2024)
The challenges facing the tourism industry and tourism educators call out for a new paradigm of tourism education. This requirement for this study is illustrated in the results obtained from the sector professionals and tourism graduates. This qualitative research has taken place in North Cyprus, th…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2023)
This study aims to investigate the motivations for undergraduate students to pursue studies in culinary arts. The research consists of a mixed methodology, a survey with 94 students from 64 different Brazilian universities, and two focus groups, one group with ten students and one group with twelve …
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2023)
Tourism and hospitality industry require competent and skilled human resources to meet the industry’s needs and keep it competitive. This study, undertaken at Makerere University, Uganda, examined gender segregated core skills desired by employers in the tourism and hospitality industry and students…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2023)
This research examines the positive and negative incidents affecting hotel management students’ experience during their Work Integrated Learning (WIL) internships. The critical incident technique was adopted as the theoretical underpinning approach to elicit the positive and negative experience of h…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2022)
Hospitality management schools have to ensure that their graduates are “ready” to start their career; hence, it is important to explore the perceived career readiness of graduates. The research goal of this paper is to explore the attributes contributing to the perceived career readiness of hospital…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2021)
This study explored virtual internship practices and the adaptation to changes brought by the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis by interviewing a small group of interns and site supervisors to understand how virtual internships were practiced in the wake of COVID-19. The findings of the study provide…
Published:Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education
(2021)
Occupational stress among full-time employees has attracted considerable research attention. However, rarely have hospitality and marketing interns been the focus of work stress empirical investigations. This study explores perceived workplace stress experiences and its effects on internship satisfa…
