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{"title":"Developing the Meridian Adventure Dive Resort: a modular construction case study","authors":"R. Whitfield, Li-Chun Lin, Gert Noordzy, Liberty Tatenda Chirumiko","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2022.2049435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2022.2049435","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This is a case study on the development of the Meridian Adventure Dive Resort in Indonesia. Considering the local situation and the target guest for the Resort, this case study explains why modular construction was the best way to build most of the property instead of using traditional in situ construction methods. This case study further explains how the Resort was designed and built and identifies the key issues that had to be addressed to successfully complete the project. Additionally, it examines how the use of modular construction methods impacted the normal pre-opening activities in this new hotel development, and the ongoing hotel operations for the completed Resort. In conclusion, some recommendations regarding how to improve the development of comparable resorts in the future are given. This case study has been prepared after reviewing published materials about the project and interviewing a senior member of the project team.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"188 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42733909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Examination of relationships among technology acceptance, student engagement, and perceived learning on tourism-related MOOCs","authors":"D. Kala, D. Chaubey","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2022.2038342","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2022.2038342","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study investigates the relationship between student technology acceptance, student engagement, and perceived learning on tourism-related massive open online courses (MOOCs). The respondents include 389 Indian university students who took tourism-related MOOCs. The results of PLS-SEM indicate the weak relationship between MOOC technology acceptance and the perceived learning of students. Technology acceptance has an impact on student engagement, but the impact is not highly significant. The findings show the strong relationship between student engagement and perceived learning in the context of tourism-MOOCs. The study suggested several ways to ensure student engagement and perceived learning to develop a positive attitude toward MOOC platforms and institutions that deliver MOOCs. Several implications are drawn from the findings, and future research directions are suggested.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"23 1","pages":"39 - 56"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46774183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A collective memory work reflection on planning and pivoting to a virtual TEFI11 conference","authors":"K. Boluk, B. Paddison, Johan R. Edelheim","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2022.2029669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2022.2029669","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 brought the world to a standstill, resulting in the most severe disruption to the global tourism sector in modern times. According to The United Nations World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO, 2021) Barometer, global international tourist arrivals fell by 44% between January and April 2020. The disruption caused by the pandemic resulted in a loss of US$195 billion in international tourism receipts. Prior to the pandemic, urgent concerns about the impact and sustainability of tourism were mounting (Boluk et al., 2019). Overtourism and the anti-tourism sentiment, the climate crisis, the availability and quality of tourism work, oppression towards minority and marginalized groups, and concerns regarding the capacity of communities to absorb tourism, continue to attract both media and scholarly attention. As global travel restrictions begin to ease and the world looks towards a “new normal”, the immediate priority is to protect jobs and businesses. However, if the unsustainable nature of tourism is to be addressed, the unlocking of the sector is an opportunity to think radically about the purpose of tourism for a more sustainable future. Accordingly, the return to tourism should occur by recentring our purpose. This will require a radical, racial, ethnic, intersectional, ability lens, and set the standard for other sectors and disciplines to follow. It was within this context, and in support of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative’s (TEFI) ambition to move beyond business as usual, that the 11 TEFI conference invited contributions from educators and practitioners to radically challenge and debate the purpose of tourism. Purposeful tourism is about creating sustainable places to live, work and visit, based on creating value that is more than the pursuit of profit. Purpose is intentional and requires a commitment to iterative learning and reflexivity about one’s decisions, behaviours, and choices. A purposeful tourist must be honest and demonstrate restraint regarding the amount and types of travel one chooses to embark on. A forpurpose business strives to deliver more than just profit, often delivering social, cultural, economic, and environmental benefits because it’s the right thing to do. The goal of TEFI11 was to reflect on the transformative role of tourism to peoples, places and the","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"90 - 103"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48480751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Re-purposing tourism: engaging our radical in tourism education","authors":"K. Boluk, Carrie Herzog, Kajsa G. Åberg, D. Freund","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2022.2030851","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2022.2030851","url":null,"abstract":"TEFI 11 was hosted in June 2020 inviting delegates to reflect on the theme Repurposing tourism: Engaging our radical in tourism education. With seven decades of growth in international tourist arrivals leading up to COVID-19, scholars and practitioners have been tasked with confronting the inimical and urgent concerns regarding the economic, social, cultural, and environmental impacts generated by the industry (Boluk et al., 2019; Higgins-Desbiolles, 2018). Specifically, the issues of overtourism, the climate crisis, the availability and quality of tourism work, the capacity of communities to accommodate tourism, and the ability of the natural environment to regenerate have mutually attracted media, public attention, and the scholarly literature (e.g., Carnicelli & Boluk, 2022, 2020; Lundmark et al., 2021). Such discussions highlight the unsustainable nature of the current industrial models of tourism necessitating reflection and action (Dredge, 2017; Sheldon et al., 2017). In addition to sustainability concerns, political activism in support of Black Lives Matter and the wider racialized voices matter movements, precipitating the death of George Floyd, necessitates we urgently challenge the operation of tourism which has been a vehicle for oppression towards minority and marginalized groups (Carnicelli & Boluk, 2020; Higgins-Desbiolles et al., 2019), supporting systemic racism. We must determine how we can change this. While the mainstream and scholarly literature has proposed the onset of COVID19 and subsequent halt in tourism presents us with the opportunity to revision and repurpose tourism (e.g., Everingham & Chassagne, 2020), re-envisioning a sector requires identifying our purpose and being radical in the way we teach and practice tourism. With this in mind and in support of the Tourism Education Futures Initiative’s (TEFI) ambition to move beyond business as usual and using value-oriented teaching as our vehicle (see Edelheim et al., forthcoming), our call for papers sought to radically challenge and debate the purpose of tourism and tourism education. This Special Issue is inspired by the TEFI11 virtual conference on the same theme, hosted by York St John University in June 2020. Given the","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"1 - 5"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45108955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Values, emancipation, and the role of knowledge in tourism education. A critical realist perspective","authors":"Cecilia de Bernardi","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2015052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2015052","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Values are important in education and their role in university studies is central in tourism teaching as well. How values are communicated to students is an important aspect of our axiological approach. In order to promote a fruitful approach to values in the students, this conceptual paper discusses the role of theoretical knowledge in achieving empowerment for the students based on the tenets of critical realism and on Gramsci’s philosophy. As students acquire disciplinary theoretical knowledge, they also develop the tools to make ethical evaluations. Knowledge is meant as the best possible understanding that we have of the world at the moment and it is always possible to achieve a better explanation of a phenomenon. Through an approach based on theoretical knowledge integrated with other creative ways to teach, the students can develop an ethical sensitivity and a flexible set of skills for both the workplace and academia.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"36 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44211724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching wildlife tourism management: reflections on culture, nature, and wildlife","authors":"Jessica Aquino","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2016553","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2016553","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article describes of an elective wildlife tourism management course at the University of Lapland. This teaching/learning course focused on blending theories used in place-based education to help students better grasp and explore their philosophical understanding of culture, nature, and wildlife and how these affect management actions. The research used arts-based methodologies as a tool to document and facilitate individual and group reflection. Experiential learning was used to explore how managers can help to create sustainable places to live, work, and visit through the co-creation of more ethical management practices that benefits local communities, incorporates a sense of place, and protects the ecosphere. The main outcomes of the course were to inspire further learning about environmental philosophy outside of the classroom and to help students push the boundaries of their own philosophical understanding of culture, nature, and wildlife.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"68 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41685963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cultivating deep learning in field-based tourism courses: finding purpose in “trouble”","authors":"Maggie C. Miller, Helene Balslev Clausen, C. Cater","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2015739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2015739","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Despite well-established links between travel, learning and education in tourism studies, there is scant discussion around the ways in which “trouble” emerges and unfolds in experience-based and field course-learning scenarios. This exploratory research aims to understand this neglected aspect of tourism education, drawing attention to its pedagogical value and to debate the purpose of trouble within the field. Specifically, we examine written and drawn memories of trouble encountered by tourism educators who lead and organise field courses. Analysis of findings reveal that unintended instances can become purposeful for both students and educators. We also highlight some of the strategies used by educators to capitalise on trouble, supporting reflection, adopting different personas, and in some cases intentionally creating “trouble”. This paper encourages educators to stay with, or more specifically to sway towards trouble, imparting insights around how to create purpose from trouble thereby inspiring educators to facilitate more critically oriented tourism field courses.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"50 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49521411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Extending the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport: a modular hotel construction case study","authors":"R. Whitfield, Gert Noordzy, Li-Chun Lin","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2010165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2010165","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The hospitality and tourism industry is growing worldwide with more new hotel buildings and extension projects. The process of developing a new hotel seems to be rarely considered in most hospitality and tourism curricula. Moreover, hospitality management students are rarely exposed to the important and well-defined discipline of project management, but clearly, developing a new hotel is a reasonably large and complex project. This case study explains why modular construction was the best way to build the extension to the Crowne Plaza Changi Airport in Singapore, instead of more traditional in-situ construction methods. Additionally, the case study introduces key principles and practices within the discipline of project management, especially as they relate to developing new hotels and/or extending existing hotels. This case study has been prepared after reviewing published materials about the project and extensively interviewing four senior members of the project team.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"179 - 187"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42641656","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vocational education in tourism at schools and colleges of Himachal Pradesh, India: a qualitative inquiry on challenges encountered by trainers","authors":"A. Gangotia, Ketan Bhatt, Saurbh Kumar","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2010164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2010164","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The rapid growth of travel trade in India has propelled the demand for well-trained and qualified personnel. To foster the quality skills and knowledge among the potential workforce, the role of teachers/trainers has been indispensable. Therefore, it is essential to properly address the needs of educators. The present study aims to identify and analyze the challenges of vocational (tourism) trainers imparting skill-based training in the schools and colleges of Himachal Pradesh (India). The data collected from 91 vocational trainers of Himachal Pradesh through semi-structured interviews was analyzed qualitatively using content analysis supported by NVivo software. The study resulted into 34 perceived challenges which were grouped under 7 distinct categories: teaching-related challenges, student-related challenges, society-related challenges, challenges at the end of outsourcing companies, challenges at the end of Government, syllabus-related challenges, and school’s location. The findings imply the urgent need to improve the system of vocational education by timely addressing the varied challenges of vocational trainers.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"378 - 399"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43737788","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing an understanding of the early collegiate student experiences in hospitality and tourism","authors":"D. Schoffstall, Eric A. Brown","doi":"10.1080/15313220.2021.2010632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2021.2010632","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Students arrive on campus with diverse experiences and backgrounds, which can directly impact their performance and retention. By developing a better understanding of who students are as they enter hospitality programs, instructors will be better equipped to ensure the students have a positive collegiate experience and are better prepared to enter industry post-graduation. This research included surveys of students at three times throughout their first year with a purpose of understanding how their opinions of the collegiate experience, industry outlook, and perceptions change, while looking at both academic and non-academic factors. Results of the study showed student perceptions did change based on their initial exposure to hospitality related course material and industry stakeholders, though not all noted occurrences were improvements. Thus, this exploratory study suggests more work is needed to ensure student success and industry stability.","PeriodicalId":46100,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism","volume":"22 1","pages":"400 - 414"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49365061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}