{"title":"Intercultural Competence Development Through Tourism: A Study of Czech Visitors to France","authors":"Renata Cuhlova, Jiri Nesiba, Prateek Kalia","doi":"10.1111/ijtd.70023","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility/Openness, Perceptual Acuity, and Personal Autonomy—among Czech tourists before and after a 2-week guided cultural experience in France. A longitudinal design involving 120 participants and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests revealed statistically significant improvement in the Flexibility/Openness dimension. These findings suggest that structured travel experiences may foster greater openness and receptivity to cultural differences, representing a partial yet meaningful enhancement of intercultural competence. The study contributes to the growing body of literature on experiential learning in tourism and offers nuanced implications for intercultural training, particularly regarding how short-term international experiences can serve as informal opportunities for developing selected facets of intercultural competence.</p>","PeriodicalId":46817,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Training and Development","volume":"30 3","pages":"270-279"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/ijtd.70023","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Journal of Training and Development","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijtd.70023","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2026/1/11 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"MANAGEMENT","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This study examines international travel as a context for informal intercultural learning and the development of intercultural competence, aligning with the broader goals of training and development. Using the Cross-Cultural Adaptability Inventory (CCAI), this research assesses changes in four dimensions—Emotional Resilience, Flexibility/Openness, Perceptual Acuity, and Personal Autonomy—among Czech tourists before and after a 2-week guided cultural experience in France. A longitudinal design involving 120 participants and Wilcoxon signed-rank tests revealed statistically significant improvement in the Flexibility/Openness dimension. These findings suggest that structured travel experiences may foster greater openness and receptivity to cultural differences, representing a partial yet meaningful enhancement of intercultural competence. The study contributes to the growing body of literature on experiential learning in tourism and offers nuanced implications for intercultural training, particularly regarding how short-term international experiences can serve as informal opportunities for developing selected facets of intercultural competence.
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Increasing international competition has led governments and corporations to focus on ways of improving national and corporate economic performance. The effective use of human resources is seen as a prerequisite, and the training and development of employees as paramount. The growth of training and development as an academic subject reflects its growth in practice. The International Journal of Training and Development is an international forum for the reporting of high-quality, original, empirical research. Multidisciplinary, international and comparative, the journal publishes research which ranges from the theoretical, conceptual and methodological to more policy-oriented types of work. The scope of the Journal is training and development, broadly defined. This includes: The determinants of training specifying and testing the explanatory variables which may be related to training identifying and analysing specific factors which give rise to a need for training and development as well as the processes by which those needs become defined, for example, training needs analysis the need for performance improvement the training and development implications of various performance improvement techniques, such as appraisal and assessment the analysis of competence Training and development practice the design, development and delivery of training the learning and development process itself competency-based approaches evaluation: the relationship between training and individual, corporate and macroeconomic performance Policy and strategy organisational aspects of training and development public policy issues questions of infrastructure issues relating to the training and development profession The Journal’s scope encompasses both corporate and public policy analysis. International and comparative work is particularly welcome, as is research which embraces emerging issues and developments.
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