{"title":"Culinary Education vs. Experience: What chefs working in the industry think","authors":"Shawn Bucher , Sarah Castillo , Junehee Kwon","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100578","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100578","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100578"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145099668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation games in hospitality finance: Enhancing engagement and learning during emergency remote teaching","authors":"Philippe Masset, Jean-Philippe Weisskopf","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100575","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100575","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This article examines the impact of game-based learning on student learning in the context of a distance learning course in a hospitality school. During the course, two simulation games aligned to learning outcomes were used. Our data includes information on participation in the simulation, student feedback immediately after the simulation, their exam results and interviews conducted afterwards. Our results show that the games increased student interest and engagement, reduced the gap between online and face-to-face learning, and led to improved exam performance. The study also highlights the potential of game-based learning to adapt to different learning styles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100575"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144996801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing career intention of Gen Z hospitality students: The roles and matters of experiential learning, problem-solving skills, positive thinking skills and adaptability skills","authors":"Tanakrit Yordudom , Sunthorn Boonkaew , Narinthon Imjai , Shayesteh Moghadas , Bussalin Khuadthong , Somnuk Aujirapongpan","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100560","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100560","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study aims to investigate the factors influencing career intentions among Gen Z students in the hospitality industry, focusing on the roles of Experiential Learning, Problem-Solving Skills, Positive Thinking Skills, and Adaptability Skills. The target population consists of 409 Thai hospitality students who have undergone internship experiences and belong to the Gen Z cohort. A convenience sampling method was employed to collect data using a structured questionnaire that was validated for content validity and reliability. Data analysis was conducted using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM). The findings revealed that experiential learning had a direct positive effect on problem-solving skills, positive thinking skills, and adaptability skills. Furthermore, these three skills significantly influenced career intentions, with positive thinking skills and adaptability skills serving as key mediating variables in the relationship between experiential learning and career intentions. These insights offer valuable implications for curriculum development and the design of learning activities that enhance integrated competencies among hospitality students, as well as for formulating strategies to develop future-ready human capital aligned with the dynamic and complex nature of the hospitality industry.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100560"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144189424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From play to proficiency: Analyzing the role of game-design learning experiential strategies in hospitality investment and finance education","authors":"Chin-Yi Fang Fred, Shan-Lin Huang, Yu-Ju Hsueh Penny, Pin-Hsuan Sung Michelle","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100583","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100583","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of game-design experiential learning (GDEL) on financial literacy and learning outcomes among graduate hospitality finance students. Using a purposive sampling method, data were collected from a graduate-level hospitality finance course in Taiwan, with 70 participants in the pre-test and 64 in the post-test. The curriculum included four board games and one online gamified learning platform. Pre- and post-test results showed significant improvement in financial literacy attitudes. Statistical analysis indicated collaboration reduces performance disparities. Mediation analysis revealed that GDEL enhanced perceptions of financial management (PFM), promoted deep learning (DL) and increased learning satisfaction (LS) and effectiveness (LE). Multiple-group analysis found the online game had a stronger direct effect on LS and LE; physical games more strongly influenced PFM and DL.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100583"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145415385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Developing a creative leisure planning module and examining its effects on tourism students’ performance","authors":"Austin Rong-Da Liang","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100582","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100582","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In response to labor shortages and declining birthrates, vocational hospitality education must consider how to design distinctive courses. This study aims to develop an innovative leisure planning teaching module (ILPTM) by integrating elements of experiential education and storytelling and to evaluate its impact on student learning outcomes. Two teaching experiments were conducted to compare students' learning outcomes in experimental and control groups before and after the course. The findings revealed that: (1) Both traditional and ILPTMs enhanced student learning outcomes, but students in the innovative module demonstrated higher participation willingness and achieved superior learning outcomes. (2) Utilizing past students' project proposals and feedback from senior students helped current students better grasp the course's unique traditions. (3) This study found that a teaching environment characterized by constrained freedom, combined with well-structured rules and practical operational scenarios, significantly enhanced the learning effectiveness of vocational hospitality students, highlighting the role of societal forces.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"37 ","pages":"Article 100582"},"PeriodicalIF":4.1,"publicationDate":"2025-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145415386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of emerging technologies in tourism and hospitality curriculum: An international perspective","authors":"Miraç Yücel Başer , Metin Kozak , Tuba Büyükbeşe","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100546","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100546","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper investigates the status of emerging technologies, how they can be integrated into the curriculum, the skills students can acquire through these technologies, and the employment opportunities they create in the tourism and hospitality industry. In the study, a content analysis was conducted on the curriculum of 65 undergraduate tourism and hospitality management programs, followed by an analysis of data from 28 academics to explore the role of emerging technologies in the curriculum. We have observed six core topics. Technology courses had the lowest proportion. We further observe four categories of skills that emerging technologies may provide students, highlighting their potential to shape future career opportunities. Building on these findings, the current study contributes to the literature by linking these skill sets — digital and technological, theoretical, operational, and managerial — to emerging job roles such as virtual reality tour designers, competent tourism developers, and AI-driven marketing specialists. Furthermore, the study identifies the domains where emerging technologies have the most relevance and outlines which purpose they may be included in the tourism and hospitality curriculum as a course. Thus, it forwards previous studies emphasizing the importance of emerging technologies. The study also suggests the implications for the literature, practice, and public policies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100546"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143619389","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evelina Avleeva, Jessica Wickey Byrd, Stephen Pratt, Vanessa Gonzalez
{"title":"The internship experience: Students’ self-evaluations of soft skill development during hospitality internships","authors":"Evelina Avleeva, Jessica Wickey Byrd, Stephen Pratt, Vanessa Gonzalez","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100552","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100552","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This study examines the impact of internships on soft skill development among hospitality students, focusing on communication, teamwork, and emotional intelligence. Drawing on Experiential Learning Theory, applied to survey data from over 17,000 students at a U.S. university, analyzed with Partial Least Squares-Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM), results highlight notable gains in communication and organizational skills, with the highest ratings in respect for diversity and adaptability. The findings underscore the importance of internships in bridging theory and practice, urging educators and industry professionals to enhance internship design, align curricula with industry needs, and improve soft skill assessments to better prepare students for career success.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100552"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel Ellingworth, Ryan Barrett, Amanda Partington, Jon Radcliffe
{"title":"Utilising play-based approaches in higher education to facilitate graduates transition into professional practice","authors":"Daniel Ellingworth, Ryan Barrett, Amanda Partington, Jon Radcliffe","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100557","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100557","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>In entering the applied world, graduates transitioning to neophyte practitioners, often experience a reality shock. Many assigning blame at educational pathways causing them to sink or swim (Haluch et al., 2022). Particularly in sport, such a praxis shock requires effective navigation to acquire contextual intelligence. In response, there is the potential for the transfer of active learning approaches from higher education to the professional development of sport practitioners. Particularly gamification brings about an opportunity to provide intentional and purposeful engagement, promoting procedural knowledge, instructive feedback loops, reflection and navigating complex environments to achieve serious work-related objectives. Often, these opportunities provide chance to practice critical reflection, knowledge exchange, risk taking, experimentation and innovative problem-solving (Hinthorne and Schneider, 2012). In turn, developing key attributes (i.e., cooperation, trust, innovation, simulation) required as sport professionals. In response, we present some considerations within the umbrella of play-based approaches, including serious play, and serious games design as andragogical approaches to aid professional development for neophyte practitioners. These include reflective practice considerations, adapting to learners needs, ensuring facilitation, and creating a psychologically safe environment – principles akin to key andragogical principles.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100557"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144116426","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Self-confidence and perceived importance of pre-arrival sport students at an English higher education institution: Exploring gender and programme of study differences","authors":"Angela Hibbs , Rick Hayman , Remco Polman","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100555","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100555","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Transitional issues into higher education (HE) are evident for all students with many encountering academic and social obstacles. Of particular importance is the need to understand the pre-entry confidence and perceived importance of students and move away from relying on exit metrics to dictate practice. Three hundred and sixty-eight first-year undergraduate sports students at a post-92 United Kingdom (UK) university completed a Pre-Arrival Survey. Findings highlight significant gender and programme of study differences in pre-arrival confidence and perceived importance. Practical implications are proposed to develop practice that supports with the integrating of student populations into HE and the continued learning of skills needed for a successful university education.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100555"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144072568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Living qualitatively: Getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again","authors":"Kai-Sean Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100541","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jhlste.2025.100541","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper critiques the sterile, formulaic, and positivist tendencies in hospitality and tourism qualitative research, exposing several dangerous misconceptions including the false gold standard of data saturation, the mistreatment of subjectivity as a flaw, and the notion that qualitative research can be adequately taught in a single course alone. The author concludes with the idea of <em>living qualitatively</em>, a mode of inquiry that prizes becoming, resists sterile simplification, and centers epistemic humility—a process of getting lost, to be found, only to be lost again.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":51666,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education","volume":"36 ","pages":"Article 100541"},"PeriodicalIF":4.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}