Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education最新文献

Financial competences are essential in the tourism industry and consequently are valued in hiring and promotion decisions. However, according to the literature, tourism graduates appear to have inadequate levels of financial skills. The perceived lack of required competences results in a competitive disadvantage for tourism graduates in favour of those who studied Management & Business Administration, or equivalent degrees. To explain this gap, some authors point to the scarcity of finance-related courses within the curriculum of most of tourism or hospitality programs, but it is also suggested that the characteristics of the students enrolling in tourism and hospitality degrees could play a relevant role, highlighting that those students lack the required background knowledge and attitudes resulting in major constraints for financial competences development.

Our study compares the levels of financial literacy, financial self-efficacy, numeracy, and financial interest of entry-level students enrolled in these two competing university degrees, Tourism and Management & Business Administration. Our results indicate significant differences in both variables that in addition to the scarcity of finance subjects in the tourism curriculum could affect the students’ prospects and employability.

While cross-cultural communication skill is recognized as a critical attribute for hospitality employees and managers in the increasingly globalized hospitality business and operations, the issue of college students’ apprehension about interacting with people from different cultures has been overlooked. The purpose of this study is to examine personal traits that increase or decrease intercultural communication apprehension (ICA) among American hospitality students. Using quantitative analysis of data from 370 American college students enrolled in hospitality programs in the United States, this research revealed that cultural intelligence (CQ) and core self-evaluations (CSE) can decrease ICA while ethnocentrism promotes ICA. The results further showed that the positive link between ethnocentrism and ICA can be diminished by CSE. Practical implications and theoretical contributions of the findings are discussed along with suggestions for future research.

Existing research is in hospitality education is primarily focused on the degree level, rather than the course level. This study advances extant research that analyzes coursework by also applying social cognitive career theory (SCCT) to examine the relationships between problem-based learning, teachers' transformational leadership, and students' self-efficacy and employability. Over a timeframe of four years, 919 undergraduate hospitality management students participated in this research. Structural equation modeling identified significant positive correlations between students' self-efficacy, problem-based learning and employability, as well as teachers' transformational leadership. In addition, problem-based learning and students' self-efficacy were key mediators of the relationship between teachers' transformational leadership and student’ employability. No significant differences were found among mode of instruction or faculty member. Hence, this research provides a baseline for evaluation of various pedagogical methods and content delivery in hospitality education.

Despite the advocacy of student-centered learning, students' voices are frequently neglected in tourism and hospitality higher education. Compared with career intentions and internship experiences, little attention has been paid to incorporating students' ideas into the curriculum for tourism studies. This study explores students' perceptions of and expectations from the undergraduate tourism curriculum in China. Focus group interviews were conducted at ten different Chinese universities that provide tourism management programs. The analysis generated five themes of students' overall perceptions and expectations respectively. The students’ detailed perceptions and expectations of theoretical and practical knowledge are presented. The results of this study have eight implications for tourism educators to help improve curriculum design by incorporating the student voice in China.

This study aims to explore the relationships between social disconnectedness, social media addiction, social appearance anxiety and the career intentions of hospitality and tourism students in the industry. Moreover, it examines the moderating roles of physical activity and self-efficacy on these relationships. Data were collected through questionnaires from undergraduate students at the departments of tourism management, gastronomy and culinary arts, recreation management and tourist guidance across nine different universities. A convenience sampling method, one of the non-probability sampling methods, was employed, reaching a total of 719 respondents. The study revealed that social disconnectedness increased social media addiction, which in turn escalated social appearance anxiety, thereby reducing the students' intention to build a career in tourism. Nevertheless, it was found that physical activity can mitigate the negative impact of social disconnectedness on social media addiction. Additionally, self-efficacy buffered the adverse effect of social appearance anxiety on the intention to pursue a career in tourism. The results of this study provide valuable insights and recommendations for tourism education and career counseling, enabling a deeper comprehension of the psychosocial factors that may influence students' career development and intentions.

This research focuses on the design and in-class application of a learning model based on the design thinking approach with the philosophy of experiential learning. The design-based thinking process was designed as an educational content that consists of ‘problem’, ‘empathy and define’, ‘ideate’, ‘prototype’ and ‘test’ stages. The research also examined the effectiveness of the application based on student experiences. In this context, the phenomenology approach, one of the qualitative research designs, was used, and observation, interview and document analysis methods were applied in the research. It was found that the activities encouraged tourism students to think creatively and actively, and were also useful in improving communication, teamwork, decision-making and empathy skills of the students. Also, it was concluded that design-based learning, which encourages students to learn by practice, improves memorability, develops a positive attitude towards the course, increases cooperation, and encourages class attendance. It is believed that the research will guide educators on how they will integrate the design thinking approach into the curriculum.

The shift from offline or online teaching only to mixed teaching becomes an irreversible trend, driving teachers to incorporate various methods in teaching. This arouses a question that has not been previously answered: Which combination of teaching methods lead to high level of students’ learning effectiveness? This study aims to address this issue using fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis. The analysis base on the practice of 36 tourism courses reveals that three configurations lead to high level of learning effectiveness, with core and peripheral causal conditions being derived. Theoretical and practical implications can be drawn for mixed method teaching.

There has been a call for adaptive sport and recreation content to be infused throughout the sport management curriculum. This study examined how faculty incorporate adaptive sport and recreation content in the sport management classroom. Findings from semi-structured interviews indicate foundational knowledge of adaptive sport and recreation appears to be an overlooked area in preparing professionals to enter the sport industry, and faculty are without resources on the topic. This content should be infused throughout the curriculum to ensure students are prepared to enter the professional work environment and to serve this specific population of participants, spectators, and consumers.

For academic undergraduate sport management programs to thrive at the university level an understanding of curriculum issues should be fostered. Using content analysis, the purposes of the current study were to identify current demographics analysis and curricular trends of undergraduate sport management programs over the past 13 years in the United States. Logistic analysis identified areas such as department affiliation or school size that could be predictive of undergraduate sport management courses in the United States. The results will help faculty in the United States and internationally to evaluate their programs to reflect the rapid changes in the sport industry.