Overview
- Is written by authors affiliated with prestigious international hotel schools
- Reflects on the future of hospitality education at a crucial time in its history
- Is relevant to the ongoing debate among universities on practical curriculum elements
Part of the book series: Innovation and Change in Professional Education (ICPE, volume 14)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Redefining the Hospitality Curriculum
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Design of the Hospitality Curriculum
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Curriculum Innovations
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Keywords
- tourism education
- hospitality management education
- customer centricity
- genuinely hospitable behaviour in education
- hospitableness
- hospitality expertise
- "return on hospitality"
- hotel training
- hospitality management
- hospitability expertise
- hospitality expertise
- hotel internship
- hospitality curriculum
- hotel management simulations
- hotel education
- hotel placement
About this book
This book analyses the development of hospitality education from vocational to higher education, and discusses the positioning of hotel schools. It addresses questions such as: Should hospitality management become part of generic business education? Are the technical training programmes that have defined the identity of these schools a remnant of their vocational past, or have they contributed to the successful careers of many hospitality graduates? Topics discussed in the book are curriculum innovation, the theory of experimentation, the nature of hospitable behaviour, information technology, life-long learning and developments for future curricula. The book makes clear that the debate on the balance between theory and practice will not only define the future of hospitality management education, but can also be considered a relevant case study in other business disciplines.
The history of hospitality education goes back to the end of the nineteenth and early twentiethcentury when hotel schools were founded to train the protocol and technical skills required to receive the travellers of those days. Since then, the scale and complexity of the hospitality industry and its professions have changed, as well as our understanding of what makes a business —whether it offers accommodation or something else— “hospitable”. The scope and educational level of hotel schools have evolved accordingly, and hospitality management has become a popular discipline in the traditional and renowned hotel schools as well as in universities.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Innovation in Hospitality Education
Book Subtitle: Anticipating the Educational Needs of a Changing Profession
Editors: Jeroen A. Oskam, Daphne M. Dekker, Karoline Wiegerink
Series Title: Innovation and Change in Professional Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61379-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-61378-9Published: 19 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87067-0Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-61379-6Published: 06 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1572-1957
Series E-ISSN: 2542-9957
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 232
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations
Topics: Professional & Vocational Education, Management Education, Higher Education, Curriculum Studies