Learning by doing (LBD) and team coaching are experiential learning methods that can be used to enhance the depth of learning, motivation, and engagement in tourism education. This study explores the combined use of the two methodologies and reports on the experience of 42 students who participated in a practical case dealing with the strategic planning for sustainable tourism in a small town in Spain as a part of their undergraduate tourism education. The results obtained after the project evaluation confirm that LBD combined with team coaching is considered a valuable strategy for enhancing learning. Regarding the LBD method, students especially valued the opportunity to work within professional realities and exchange ideas with their classmates. Participants perceived team coaching as a valuable tool for enhancing team performance, communication, self-awareness (and that of others), conflict management, and problem-solving during project development. Professors and agents from public institutions involved in the project reported that students’ proposals were highly applicable and close to reality, and they agreed that the combination of LBD and team coaching improved the quality of the course assignments.
Culture managed by the public sector has always been a demagogic tool used for the benefit of the government in power. However, the necessary time, resources (human and financial), nor the detailed strategic planning required for such a fragile and crucial aspect have been dedicated to this when identifying a society, country or region. Particularly in such a globalised world as ours, it is time that the public sector truly realises the power involved in using this tool to strengthen social identity and create social capital. This project tries to throw light on the radical importance of thinking through and planning the supply of public cultural activities, as they implicitly entail values (social, cultural, individual, among others) that make up the identity of a people and make them unique in the eyes of the world. Therefore the aim of this project is to study the way in which two municipalities of the Basque Country handle their cultural activities and define what types of social values are behind those activities.
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