... Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Knowledge Pedagogical innovation Higher education Tourism Flexibility Active learning methodologies A society in constant change requires a great capacity for adaptation and updating in the face of new education systems...

... in internships to provide useful information for universities, students and tourism companies. Design/methodology/approach A quantitative analysis was carried out using questionnaires administered to the supervisors of students on curricular internships. The level of tourism competences of students...

...Harry Matlay; Patrice Braun; Mary Hollick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to share the authors' initial insights into tourism industry capacity building via flexibly delivered online skilling and knowledge sharing. Design/methodology/approach An online research survey approach...

...Harry Matlay; Andreas Walmsley; Rhodri Thomas; Stephanie Jameson Purpose This paper seeks to explore undergraduate placement experiences in tourism and hospitality SMEs, focusing on the notions of surprise and sense making. It aims to argue that surprises and sense making are important elements...

... motivation and insufficient career options are mentioned as core problems in tourism enterprises. Research limitations/implications It is argued that some stakeholder groups within an enterprise, such as young trainees or apprentices, might have deeper insights into entrepreneurial processes...

...Mike Peters; Dimitrios Buhalis Small businesses dominate the tourism and hospitality industry worldwide and are of critical importance for the competitiveness of destinations. Small/family hotel businesses are characterised by a number of specific business processes which generate particular...

...Petia Petrova; Peter Mason Travel and tourism graduates are facing challenges in securing jobs within the travel and tourism industry, as their degrees have low recognition among travel and tourism employers. Yet there are growing numbers of tourism courses provided by universities...

... by the European Commission – SMART‐UP, which was designed to help European SMTEs in tourism and hospitality to increase their know‐how and ICT literacy through the provision of specific tourism‐related modules via an Internet‐based learning platform and to apply ICT applications to stay on the leading edge...

... Taking these considerations as its starting point, Changing Occupational Profiles in the Hotel Industry, by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, analyses the new skill requirements and occupational profiles in the tourism industry in Italy, France and Spain...

... © MCB UP Limited 1999 --> European Union Tourism Training Tourism training "must be improved" Keywords European Union, Tourism, Training Employee training in the European tourism industry needs to be improved, says the EU's high-level group on tourism...