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Innovation in Tourism Education: Building the Capacity to Lead

Author :	Pauline Sheldon
School/Work Place :	University of Hawaii, USA
Contact :	psheldon@hawaii.edu
Year :	2007

This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 2010 to 2030 and project how tourism and tourism higher educational programs must change to address these trends. Fifty tourism education experts (40
from academia and 10 from industry) from all over the world gathered to share ideas about how to address these paradigm shifts. One objective is to suggest ways that tourism education programs much change to match these shifts.

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Category :: Think Tank VII

Tag :: TEFI; tourism education; future trends; higher education; paradigm shift; values

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Registered Date :: 2013.10.13; 17:43:37

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»	This paper will present the findings of a recent Summit on the Future of Tourism Education held in April 2007 in Austria. The summit's goal is to identify future societal, economic, environmental, political and technological trends from 201... Author: Pauline Sheldon Year: 2007
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