Tourism and Hospitality Education: Progress, Challenges, and Prospects

Worldwide, the tourism and hospitality industry has been expanding quickly over the past two decades as a result of globalization. Being a highly competitive work-market focused on services, the tourism and hospitality industry needs to meet the constant demand for developing the levels of education with the creation of professional skills. This volume examines the role of tourism and hospitality education at colleges, universities, and vocational schools, which plays a critical place in achieving excellence, and how higher education in tourism and hospitality meets expectations and needs of today tourism and hospitality industry.

This book provides a thorough academic investigation into the present situation in the field of the tourism and hospitality education (THE) and its changing context in the global setting. The volume first focuses on some of the core concepts of tourism and hospitality education, illustrating its evolution, such as the progression of instruction from face-to-face to online or hybrid education. It looks the promotion of work-integrated learning in the tourism and hospitality classroom, evaluates the most valued skills that can be gained from THE, and takes a look at rethinking tourism and hospitality education through curriculum design and development.

The volume goes on to explore the challenges to higher tourism and hospitality education, such as stress in the higher education environment, dealing with constraints resulting from the COVID pandemic and other outside influences, creating a balance between training and instruction, etc.

The volume also looks at the new opportunities are evolving THE, including the incorporation of cutting-edge technology such as augmented reality and virtual reality, metaverse technology, entrepreneurship, values-based education, and dedicating tourism and hospitality education to a nation future.

Written by two tourism and hospitality education professionals, this volume provides a valuable and insightful perspective on THE for academics, researchers, and students in the field.