Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education最新文献

Critical thinking competence has recently become a popular topic in education research; however, it is insufficiently researched in tourism education. This study seeks to evaluate the effectiveness of peer assessment in developing critical thinking skills in a Chinese context. Peer assessment data were collected through group news presentations and individual assignments of college students studying tourism management. An epistemic network analysis was conducted to examine the role of peer assessment in students' critical thinking competence. The findings show that students’ critical thinking skills significantly improve as peer assessment activities are conducted, with higher-level critical thinking skills clearly emerging at a later stage of peer assessment activities.

Recently, there has been a likely transformation from traditional face-to-face education to distance education and hybrid models. Higher tourism education has undergone these changes concordantly as it incorporates an applied field. Therefore, an atmosphere of uncertainty and chaos has arisen in universities. The study approaches the effects of the pandemic on the education system through the perspective of chaos theory. The data were collected from tourism academics, one of the pillars of the higher education system. Semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 lecturers. Study findings revealed that the lack of compulsory attendance reduced student participation in online classes. Accordingly, low student attendance resulted in the lack of lecturer-student interaction in courses, negatively impacting lecturer motivation and highlighting the inefficiency of distance education. The study also provides clues regarding differences and managerial implications experienced by public and foundation universities during the pandemic.

Few studies have investigated teaching and learning experiences of university sports students which is surprising considering the high annual numbers recruited to sport degree programmes and consequent non-completion rates. This study compared teaching and learning experiences of 350 first-year sport students at a post-92 English University with how they were taught at their further education institutions. Key findings showed the teaching and learning methods at university were less structured and tutor-led but with more teaching staff involved. Practical implications for developing rich modes of university provision that best support the needs and expectations of newly arrived sports students are provided.

Experiential learning within sport management classrooms provides valuable industry experience to complement theoretical knowledge. Content creation is a valuable skill for sport management students, particularly those who are looking to work within media and marketing spaces after graduation. Therefore, sport communication undergraduate students at a large research-intensive institution in the Midwest of the United States participated in a podcast creation project for their sport communication class. The experiential learning opportunity provided students with the opportunity to collaborate with a classmate to write, record, and edit a podcast episode under the umbrella of the department's podcast show. This gave the students valuable experience in creating content for professional consumption. The project received positive feedback from students on skill development and the benefits of collaboration, while also discussing the challenges associated with the time demands of the project.

Acknowledging the limitations of traditional pedagogy on conventional competencies, this study aims to explore the effectiveness of the Living Lab approach in enhancing students' competencies and propose a Living Lab model in tourism higher education. For this purpose, the data were collected from university students of tourism and hotel management who took a tourism Living Lab class in South Korea in 2019, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Adapting Sker and Floričić’s three stages of the Living Lab procedure, this study analyzed the data using feedback from observations, field notes, open-ended questionnaires, and reflective journals that enabled qualitative content analysis. The results of this research manifest four themes: competency in professional development, collaboration and networking, learning agility and adaptability, and emotional connections. Based on these, this study proposes a Living Lab model of tourism higher education and suggests practical implications for higher education institutions.

Sport is an important activity for tourists when they travel away from home, and travel experiences are accompanied by different types of sport. This paper focuses on an innovative pedagogical approach based on experiential learning activities. With this study we intend to describe the context, the teaching and learning process, and a real case package proposal that was successfully implemented by a group of undergraduate students. This education approach has been developed for the last three academic years as part of a 3rd year module ‘Sport, Leisure and Tourism’ within Sports undergraduate degree at the University of Algarve (Portugal). The case study method and reflective portfolio, underpinned by experiential learning theory, were designed to create an authentic, enriching and transformative learning experience for all students. The authentic experiential learning had positive impact on the dynamics established in the classroom, where we could see active participation of the students. This education experience allowed the creation of a tourist sport package that fits the objectives of a specific hotel, and allows the diversity of their offer and the attraction of new senior clients.

Purpose

While there has been a considerable amount of research conducted on experiential learning and sport sales, the purpose of this study is to shift the focus from students to current sport sales professionals and examine how experientially learning sales assisted in the sales professionals’ growth, competency, and skill development in the current sales roles they occupy.

Design

Employing a stratified purposeful sampling technique, sport sales-related professionals (from a diverse group of sports organizations, including, but not limited to, organizations within the MLB, NBA, XFL, and NASCAR; n = 7) who completed an experiential sales learning project between 2015 and 2022 were invited to give their perceptions of experientially learning sport sales in the form of a focus group. Post-interview inductive thematic analysis was conducted using Braun and Clarke's (2006) six-phase framework to extract themes.

Findings

Results highlight three main themes extracted from the participants who engaged in sports sales experiential learning: 1) Initial Perceptions; 2) Project Resultants; and 3) Improvements for Experiential Sales Project, which are further expounded upon and contextualized within the literature.

Originality

This is the first study to examine sport sales professionals’ perceptions of sport sales experiential learning in sport sales education. By shifting the focus from students to sales managers, the researchers highlight the unique differences that exists when comparing student perceptions in, or shortly after the completion of, an experiential sales project, versus the perceptions of the current sales managers in sport industry. For sport management faculty, important findings such experiential sales project improvements are discussed. For students, practical insight is given to help students overcome the negative feelings associated with sport sales experiential learning, in addition to the benefits of learning sales experientially and the impact it has on professional development, job opportunity, and personal marketability.

This paper is born of a now years-long text message conversation and commitment to social learning during an otherwise forced distance education. We thought we would write a paper about care, co-working, and carpool lanes. Instead, this is some writing about contingencies, COVID-19, crises, and the uncomfortable limits of critical theories. We invite readers into an otherwise private (and still ongoing) snippet of our primary texts: a stream-of-consciousness, erratic, always already temporally punctuated, and immediate-yet-delayed process of text messaging. Though our daily text message conversation has lasted years and spanned uncountable topics and immense word counts, the passage we share relates specifically to identity politics. If all objects are relational, we are still two people who share an interest in how to study the object.

This study aims to examine the effects of school support and hotel support on hotel interns' career growth through the mediation of role clarity and occupational identification. Analyzing data from 476 hotel interns in China, the study revealed that both school support and hotel support positively influenced hotel interns' career growth, and role clarity partially mediated this relationship. Occupational identification did not significantly mediate the relationship between school support and career growth, but it significantly mediated the relationship between hotel support and career growth. This study provides both theoretical contributions and practical implications in guiding hotel internship practices and hotel interns’ career development.