Resonance of Cultural Tourism: Introduction to the Special Issue

Abstract

Tourism education and the industry havemuch to offer each other, but education’s contribution must ultimately be rooted in cultivating students’ capacities to question, to critique, to relate, and to engage with the tourismworld from a standpoint of values and convictions honed through thoughtful consideration and exposure to the perspectives of others. The development of practical vocational competencies must be pursued in dialogue with, rather than ahead or in place of, humanistic capacities. Otherwise, wemay find ourselves to be very efficiently producing a world that is not of the shape we want at all. (Caton, 2014)