Is the Bologna Process Globalizing Tourism Education? (original) (raw)

In the Bologna Process Globalizing Tourism Education

Journal of Hospitality Leisure Sport & Tourism Education, 2007

This paper examines the Bologna process from the perspective of globalization theories and analyses its impacts on the future of tourism education. The study showed that Bologna has important impacts on both tourism research and scholarship in Europe. It illustrates how it enhances the globalization of European higher education. The tools of Bologna structure involve a standardisation process that can help to solve the problem of fragmentation in tourism scholarship and may further develop globalization processes worldwide. Finally, the study argues that Bologna is a historical opportunity to use the systemic changes to gain a stronger image for tourism education.

Tourismology, Tourism Education and Educational Community: NOTE and RETNL

Journal of Tourismology, 2016

The current scientific and academic perspectives of tourism studies are interpreted to understand the viability of Tourismology as a suitable approach to define this area of studies, similarly in Portuguese academy. The paper also aims to study the actual tourism education organization and the institutional background in a national network level. The academic attitudes should be considered and discussed in seminar debates helping to consolidate this scientific study area and facilitate the development of innovative and efficient educational approaches in their academic community. The empirical research is based on secondary data analysis from the higher education institutions (HEI´s), mainly to understand their relative importance in this teaching level and the main approaches that correspond to a certain diversity of types of HEI´s, which have invested significantly in this field since the last thirty years. The methodology is based in a case study from Portugal tourism education. The premise is that Tourism Studies recognition needs a continuous and rigorous diagnostic at a national level, and a consequent formative policy and strategy, to respond effectively to the internationalization challenges. So, we consider the opportunity to develop two important projects: the National Observatory for Tourism Education (NOTE), as a mean to support the management and competitiveness of the tourism education network in the academic community in Portugal; the Research and Education Tourism Network for Lusophony (RETNL), essential to promote a bridge between Tourism academic communities and cooperation for the adequate recognition of the Tourism Studies core and their importance. The study results indicates that Tourismology is increasingly used in the educational community to define tourism as an autonomous field of studies and the Projects named NOTE and RETNL could be important to reinforce this development in Portugal and in the Lusophony.

The Spanish Higher Education System According to the Bologna Process in the Field of Tourism

"The economic relevance of tourism has meant that today most European countries have higher education in tourism. The extreme diversity of the tourism labour market gives rise to a complex combination of a variety of professional skills and a wide range of necessary formation that are taught in different ways in European universities, leading to a lack of homogeneity and diversity of orientations and content that hinder the convergence of these studies at European level. Two academic guidance of the Degree of Tourism dominate: the one that is related to the management of tourism enterprises, and the tourism one in the broadest sense, including the planning and management of the activity in the public sector and new developments of products. In this research we intend to present and analyze, from a European perspective, the thematic lines in which Spanish Universities are based when forming future tourism professionals through the implementation of the Degree of Tourism in accordance with the European Higher Education framework. "

Tourism education – the state of the art in tourism HE

2020

The teaching of tourism at a higher education level has become well established in Portuguese Higher Education (HE) institutions.The academic curriculum needs to change in Tourism courses in order to implement the Bologna Process in Portugal. We have taken into consideration the diversity of tourism courses and approaches, from the agents' viewpoints that are influencing the new design of academic curricula in Portugal. We concluded that tourism education needs a common and negotiated approach as an area of study that is difficult to categorize and this is reflected in the development of new curriculum perspectives. This research paper essentially reflects an empirical application to the Portuguese situation.

The Managerial Gaze: The Long Tail of Tourism Education and Research

Journal of Travel Research, 2014

Tourism has been studied and researched in higher education for more than 40 years and in many ways it has now established itself as a significant part of the academy. However, at a time of change and rationalization in higher education, tourism, along with other areas of study, needs to be able to justify its position. Increasingly, academic managers are seeking such justifications, often using readily available metrics. The purpose of this study is to examine the position of tourism using these same metrics, for teaching, research, and impact and for three different countries, Australia, China, and the United Kingdom. In doing so, it highlights tourism’s strengths and weaknesses from a managerial perspective but at the same time it exposes the relative narrowness of this managerial gaze. It points to the need for the tourism community to strengthen its provision and broaden the gaze of the decision makers.

Education for tourism: a perspective article

Tourism Review, 2019

Purpose This paper aims to provide a short scholarly review on the development of tourism education that contributes to the celebration of 75 years of the Tourism Review. Design/methodology/approach The paper is based on selective literature on the topic. Findings Tourism education has developed into a major field of study in the period since the Second World War, but after a long period of growth, it now faces some important challenges. Research limitations/implications The paper is based on selective literature. Practical implications The review provides a brief overview of the development and challenges for tourism education. Social implications The review provides a brief overview of the development and challenges for tourism education. Originality/value The paper provides a brief overview of developments.

-776 - Tourism Education: Regional Observatory for Centre Region

The Portuguese higher education institutions have invested significantly in the Tourism teaching areas, for approximately the last twenty five years. The effective implementation of the Bologna Process seems to maintain the traditional diversity of educative approaches that was previously a peculiar characteristic in tourism studies, which conducted to a certain profusion on the courses designations reflecting several education and curricular organization models, essentially at the higher education level. Within this context, the present study aims to analyse the actual course curricula organization and the institutional background in the national and regional formative network. The stakeholders viewpoints should be considered and discussed in seminar debates helping to consolidate this scientific study area and facilitate the qualitative planning of the development of innovative and efficient curriculum perspectives. The utilization of results from an author's empirical work helps to understand the Tourism situation, at national and regional level. We intend, equally, to demonstrate that the tourism development at regional level also needs a rigorous diagnostic, and a consequent formative strategic, to respond effectively to the European higher education challenges. We consider the need to implement a regional observatory to support the management and competitiveness of the tourism education network in the Centre Region.

The Tourism Profession and the Axes to Explain its Relation to Academic Training

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E n el presente artículo se analizan los planteamientos teórico conceptuales de las profesiones en sus dimensiones sociológica y económica, que fundamentan los estudios realizados en México en distintos campos disciplinares, situando desde ahí, a la profesión turística, a su vez se identifica la teoría del capital humano como eje de articulación para ser abordada como objeto de estudio, que desde sus ámbitos económico y social delimita la formación académica y producción de conocimientos turísticos ligados al desarrollo productivo.