关于我国会展专业教学模式的创新思考

文章从分析目前我国会展专业教育的现状入手,对我国会展专业教育中存在的主要问题进行了较为深刻和全面的剖析,并针对这些问题,从培养理念、课程体系和教学方法等方面提出了有关我国会展专业教学模式的创新思路.     

关于我国会展专业教学模式的创新思考

文章从分析目前我国会展专业教育的现状入手,对我国会展专业教育中存在的主要问题进行了较为深刻和全面的剖析,并针对这些问题,从培养理念、课程体系和教学方法等方面提出了有关我国会展专业教学模式的创新思路。     

旅游院校创建会展管理专业的SWOT分析与发展思路——以上海师范大学旅游学院为例

本文以上海师范大学旅游学院为例 ,用SWOT战略分析法对旅游院校开设会展管理专业的内外部环境进行剖析 ,并得出观念创新、目标创新、制度创新等发展思路。     

高职酒店管理专业创新创业教育改革与实践——以成都纺织高等专科学校酒店管理专业创新创业教育为例

创新创业教育成为高职教育教学改革的新常态,而酒店管理专业是一门应用性和实践性很强的学科。本文结合我校酒店管理专业实况,分析了创新创业教育的必要性与可行性,梳理了酒店管理专业创新创业教育中的困难,提出了我校酒店管理创新创业教育改革与实践的相应措施。     

关于应用型本科院校旅游会计课程实践性教学的思考

本科院校的旅游专业一直以来都是教育教学推动的主要模式,在本科院校中不断完善和加强旅游专业学生的培养,改善旅游专业教学动力,是本科院校发展的主要方向。应用型本科院校旅游专业学生通过开展实践型教学的不断深入,完善教学内容与思想,坚持走本科院校创新发展之路,也让旅游会计课程能够不断加强专业动力,以旅游专业为实践思路,带动本科院校的教学创新。在本文中主要研究应用型本科旅游会计课程实践性教学的发展现状以及应对策略。     

高职烹饪专业创新创业教育融入专业教育的对策研究

本文分析了目前高职创新创业教育存在的问题,如:开展创新创业教育缺乏系统性,形式比较单一;创新创业教育没有充分结合专业教育;创新创业项目确立后管理比较落后等。以高职烹饪专业为例提出了将高职创新创业教育融入专业教育的几点建议:重构课程体系,创新人才培养模式;创新创业教育要与专业教学内容深度融合;开展校企合作扩大创新创业教育的平台。     

高校创新创业教育与专业教育融合的实践探索

创新创业教育和专业教育的融合是中国高校教育趋于完整和不断进步的标志。本文对高校创新创业教育和专业教育的可行性和必要性进行简要分析,并对创新创业教育和专业教育的融合途径提出自身的看法。     

旅游管理专业教学改革思路与措施

现如今教育体制的不断完善,为教育产业的发展提供了更多的机遇及挑战。由此可见,高校在旅游管理专业的教学改革过程中,需要对现有教学模式进行创新,及时解决师资投入、课程设计、教材内容、考试范围、教学定位方面的问题,进而提高旅游管理专业的教学效率。基于此,本文就旅游管理专业教学改革思路进行了总结。     

高职激光加工技术专业理实一体化教学探索

激光加工技术专业是近年来兴起于国内高职院校的新型专业,如何针对专业人才培养的要求制定科学有效的教学方案也成为亟待解决的问题。本文提出采用理实一体化教法设计和组织高职激光加工技术专业教学的思路,首先阐述了理实一体化教法的内涵,其次重点从建设理实一体教学基地、组织循环理实一体教学活动及开展校企理实一体交互实践三方面论述了具体的教学策略,最后提出了加快专业群体系建设及确保教学资源投入运维等保障措施。     

酒店管理专业人才创新创业教育培养模式

酒店管理专业是具有综合性、实践性和创新性的专业,培养具有创新创业精神的人才也成为了高校的重要培养目标,让酒店专业学生尽早接受创新创业教育,并在毕业后敢于创业也成为了高校人才培养的当务之急。本文把本科生在校内参与创新创业的实践与毕业后自己创业作为主要研究对象,从构建新的课程教育内容、项目驱动体系、跟踪评价团队和校企深度融合四个方面,提出了酒店管理专业的人才培养模式,以期促进酒店管理专业建设、提高普通高校本科专业类教育质量,进而培养更多满足社会需要的旅游与酒店管理专业人才。     

旅游专业本科毕业实习生的工作满意感及其在旅游业择业意向的实证研究

本文以旅游专业本科实习生(简称“旅本实习生”)为研究对象,探讨他们毕业前在旅游用人单位的工作满意感,与其毕业后在旅游业的择业意向之间的关系。331名来自我国绝大多数大陆省份旅游用人单位的“旅本实习生”有效填写了调查问卷。数据分析结果表明,从总的情况来看,“旅本实习生”的工作满意感对其在旅游业的择业意向有显著性的影响。按其影响力从大到小排列,具体的工作满意感因子依次为旅游业工作本身、薪酬和晋升。该研究及其发现对旅游人力资源管理和开发具有理论和实践意义。     

Students’ expectations,experiences, and career direction after in-house internship: the pedagogical role of the hotel training center in Thailand

This study investigates the in-house internship of the hotel training center in Thailand, with two specific objectives: (1) to investigate the expectation of students prior to taking internship and compare it with their perception after taking the internship and (2) to explore experiences and skills gained by student interns and the influence of in-house internship on students’ choice of job after graduation. This study employs a qualitative methodology through content analysis to extract meaning from the students’ opinions derived from the focus group interview and the narrative writing of the short open-ended questions. The results from the study demonstrate the crucial role of compulsory in-house internship within the Tourism and Hospitality Management curriculum. The study also confirms that in-house internship can equip and prepare students for the real internship experience within the hotel industry and it also sheds light on the pedagogical role of the in-house internship in the tourism and hospitality curriculum.     

International student graduation ceremonies: An opportunity for local tourism services providers

This purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of travel when associated with graduation ceremonies for the international student cohort. Due to the global growth in the international student market, the perceived importance of investigating this market in relation to the impact on tourism marketing is of timely significance. A mail survey of international students who completed their studies in a large Western Australian (WA) university in the past few years was conducted in 2001. The aim of the survey was to determine the significance of the following: (a) types of accommodation facilities used by the family/friends when visiting for graduations; (b) the proportion of expenditures on various types of activities; and (c) the differences in spending patterns for various countries of origin; and (d) the overall contribution of visiting friends and relatives (VFR) to the WA tourism sector. Results indicate that at least two to three family members (mostly parents) of graduating international students attend graduation ceremonies in Perth. Results also show that 58% of the visitors use commercial accommodation facilities (mainly hotels/motels) spending $462 on accommodation for staying 5.35 nights on average, and spend $653 on shopping. At least 58% of the graduates returned to Australia since graduation mainly for holidays (54%). Results of the study are discussed and implications for both the tourism and education sectors are highlighted, in addition to future research directions.     

Little leisure in the Big Society

The Big Society is a government and governance project that brings into question the existing relationship between the state and the citizen in the UK. One aspect of that changing relationship is the way in which government is willing and able to govern the population’s discretionary or leisure time. The success of the Big Society is dependent on a reorientation of leisure time use towards civic or voluntary action. In this policy analysis, the Big Society concept is deconstructed to examine the importance of leisure as a key determinant in meeting policy objectives. Time-use evidence is reviewed to explore the difficult question of how much scope there is for a reorientation of time-use that will go some way to realising the ambitions of the Big Society. The invisibility of leisure as an operationalised policy concept is revealed as a factor that ultimately limits the success of the project. An argument for including leisure in the Big Society policy discourse and decision-making is presented.     

Oh the places they’ll go. Examining the early career path of hospitality alumni

ABSTRACT

This research adds to the overall literature and academic understanding of early career progression of hospitality professionals. The results of an analysis of the career profiles of graduates of an undergraduate business school majoring in Hospitality and Tourism Management indicate that there are five potential career paths for hospitality professionals graduating from this program. The groups are (1) Traditional Hospitality; (2) Stallers; (3) Nonhospitality; (4) Loyalists; and (5) Entrepreneurs. The findings indicate that there is substantial job movement in the first three years after graduation. Further, if promotion happens within the first 6 months to a year, graduates are more likely to stay with the organization. Finally, those that leave hospitality are likely to go into highly related fields such as health care and real estate.     

Tourism and the geopolitics of Buddhist heritage in Nepal

This study explores the intricacies of geopolitical imagination at a heritage attraction in Nepal, when a Chinese NGO proposed an investment project to develop it as tourism hub. It seeks to investigate the discourses and reasons deployed by Nepali tourism stakeholders in explaining the Chinese plan. The study applies qualitative methodology and the primary data which were collected through 20 semi-structured interviews. The study shows that in articulating the project aim, the agency of national actors is shaped by the regional power struggle and a ‘nationalist’ sentiment originated from perceived threat to the heritage in question. The finding is useful in understanding the complexities of geopolitical constraints that can influence tourism development projects.     

The English Tourist Network Automation project: a case study in interorganizational system failure

What are the barriers to the success of inter-organizational information systems? This question is considered through an examination of the English Tourist Network Automation (ETNA) project, launched in 1990 with the declared aim of implementation within the majority of tourist information centres within two years. The project was abandoned in 1993 with systems installed in 17% of the target population. Tourist information centres are provided by an inter-organizational network involving national, regional and local bodies. The impact that the complexities of this network had on the failure of the system are explored through an analysis of published documents. The importance of an organizational perspective with a clear view of the role of organizational politics to supplement technical considerations is stressed.     

Assessing the viability of university alumni as a repeat visitor market

Both student and repeat visitor markets have been recognised by tourism academics and destination marketing agencies, but the alumni repeat visitor market has been neglected. The paper examines alumni propensity to return as tourists to their university city using a sample of graduates from a university in the North West of England. The large majority returned to the destination as tourists within six months of graduation, although visitation declined sharply after the first return visit. A cluster analysis using both motivation and constraint dimensions identified six a posteriori segments. Three of these were found to have significant potential because of their strong emotional attachment to the destination rather than the university. The accessibility of segments for targeting, through the development of links between the DMO and the educational institution, also supports their commercial viability.     

Residents’ perspectives of a newly developed ecotourism project: an assessment of effectiveness through the lens of an importance–performance analysis

Understanding the perceived importance and performance of various components of ecotourism to residents living in the area it is undertaken is crucial to the overall success of an ecotourism development project. This study examines residents’ perceptions of the importance and performance of ecotourism components (i.e. environmental conservation, economic wellbeing, promotion of local arts and culture, local participation, and fair share of resources), including overall ecotourism development, at the Gaurishankar Conservation Area (GCA) – a recently implemented ecotourism development project in Nepal. This study also examines the effect of socio-demographic, economic, and psychological factors on a perceived gap between the importance and the performance of ecotourism components. Findings suggest that the ecotourism development project at the GCA should concentrate on improving the economic wellbeing of residents, and on overall ecotourism development. Findings also suggest that residents’ inclusion in benefit-sharing mechanisms was associated with a reduced perceived gap between the importance and performance of ecotourism components. A comparison among different geographical segments of residents indicated that the perceived gap between importance and performance varies across different locations.     

Efforts,resources and costs required for long term environmental management of a resort development: the case of Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club,The Bahamas

The natural resources upon which the tourism industry relies upon are subjected to intense pressure during and post development. Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs) are the general method used to evaluate the potential impacts of a development. However, EIAs rarely incorporate an EIA-auditing mechanism, or set environmental standards, for evaluating the long term impacts of a proposed development project. The Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club (BBC) serves as a coastal tourism development case study, where an Environmental Management Program (EMP) and prescribed environmental goals were incorporated into the EIA. The goal of this paper is to document the efforts, resources and costs required to implement the EMP in an effort to meet the project goals. Lessons learned include the need to mitigate damaged environments, include measurable ecological goals, and establish an open communications system. Substantial time, costs and resources were necessary to implement the EMP and this information should be incorporated into development planning to establish a process to follow through on EIA recommendations.