Developing Tourism Curriculum Content to Support International Tourism Growth and Competitiveness: An Example from the Central Baltic Area

Teaching Sustainability in Higher Education Institutions: Assessing Hospitality Students’ Sustainability Literacy

“…Karatzoglou (2013) suggested linking HE institutions and regional partners in pursuit of common economic, environmental, and social goals. Many opportunities to implement sustainability into HE institutions exist such as cocreation of knowledge with the stakeholders (Beynaghi et al, 2016;Deale & Barber, 2012;Kopnina & Meijers, 2013;Trencher, Terada, & Yarime, 2015), real life projects in collaboration with the local community (Renfors et al, 2019;Trencher et al, 2015), or partnerships with industry experts outside the institution (Deale & Barber, 2012).…”

“…New courses, modules, and programs on sustainability have been developed to promote shared learning through sustainable initiatives (Clark & Button, 2011). These courses are interdisciplinary and/or multidisciplinary in nature and encourage engagement through real-world, and work-based contextual environments (Clark & Button, 2011;Hopkinson & James, 2010;Kurland et al, 2010;Mochizuki & Fadeeva, 2010;Muller-Christ et al, 2014;Renfors et al, 2019).…”

“…HE institutions have become significant contributors to the promotion of sustainability (Karatzoglou, 2013;Ruhanen & Bowles, 2019) and the preparation of a new generation of graduates whose values and skills contribute to social progress and the advancement of knowledge (Zeegers & Clark, 2013). If HE takes its responsibility seriously, it can prepare young graduates who believe in lifelong learning (Renfors, Veliverronena, & Grinfelde, 2019;Savelyeva & Douglas, 2017), are active participants in the community (Stir, 2006), and can address environmental and social challenges critical to their and others' success (Deale & Barber, 2012). Since the United Nations declared 2004-2015 as the Decade for Sustainable Development (Seto-Pamies & Papaoikonomou, 2016;Sidiropoulos, 2014) and the UN announced its Principles for Responsible Management Education (Seto-Pamies & Papaoikonomou, 2016), the US passed the Higher Education Sustainability Act (HESA) and the University for a Sustainable Future, an international initiative which focuses on sustainability and environmental literacy, was created.…”

Present and prospective research themes for tourism and hospitality education post-COVID19: A bibliometric analysis

“…Though touristic education began in vocational secondary schools, due to the prominence this sector gained in the economy and employment, it has increased its prominence in schools and universities. Tourism education helps to increase touristic competitiveness and plays a key role in the growth of tourism sector in any country ( Renfors et al, 2020 ). Tourism education research has been a well-researched area in the past.…”

“…Though touristic education began in vocational secondary schools, due to the prominence this sector gained in the economy and employment, it has increased its presence in schools and universities. Tourism education helps to increase touristic competitiveness and plays a key role in growth of the tourism sector in any country ( Renfors et al, 2020 ). Many of the education related studies during the COVID-19 is of qualitative nature with views from one set of stakeholders like either teachers or students etc and the future studies including multiple stakeholders as respondents using quantitative or mix method will give more insight into the effectiveness of the use of technology in touristic education ( Qiu et al, 2020 ).…”