RT Journal Article
T1 Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?
A1 Mínguez García, María del Carmen
A1 Martínez Hernández, Carlos
A1 Yubero Bernabé, Claudia
AB The present context of COVID19 pandemics has highlighted the vulnerability of tourism. Sustainable tourism needs to be thoroughly implemented to confront this and other crises; and sustainable tourism pedagogies must accompany the process, especially in terms of students’ professional skills essential for overcoming crisis situations. This paper seeks to evaluate the Degrees of Tourism in Spain from the perspective of both students and teachers in order to show to what extent they consider students to be sufficiently qualified so as to address the challenges required in the tourism sector to deal with this and other crises. To answer this question, we have turned to Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy (STP), a framework for the critical analysis of tourism studies based on six areas of literacy that this article will use for empirical analysis. The STP core literacies have been evaluated in a statistically validated questionnaire addressed to 393 respondents and data analysis has been performed with analytical descriptive techniques. The results show: i) that Tourism Degrees do not meet the needs of today’s students, especially because of a major lack of sustainability issues, ii) significant gaps between the perception of teachers and students, iii) that there are calls for a more sustainable tourism pedagogy in Higher Education. This paper concludes by highlighting the urgent need to revise official national programmes.
PB Elsevier
SN 1473-8376
YR 2021
FD 2021-06-10
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8606
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/8606
LA eng
NO Mínguez, Carmen, et al. «Higher Education and the Sustainable Tourism Pedagogy: Are Tourism Students Ready to Lead Change in the Post Pandemic Era?» Journal of Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism Education, vol. 29, noviembre de 2021, p. 100329. DOI.org (Crossref), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhlste.2021.100329.
NO CRUE-CSIC (Acuerdos Transformativos 2021)
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 9 abr 2025