“…These new circumstances have led to discussions focusing on integrated approaches to tourism education including contemporary, content-specific disciplines and a list of skills and competencies termed employability, soft skills, personal skills, generic skills, attributes or capabilities (Atkins, 1999; Hager and Holland, 2006; Holmes, 2001). If competencies are classified, the literature distinguishes among several types of and approaches to competencies, which are summarised as follows (Kauffeld et al, 2002; Kolb, 2002; Sonntag and Schmidt-Rathjens, 2004): - Professional competencies comprise skills, abilities and knowledge necessary to meet the challenges and tasks of one’s profession;
- Methodological competencies are universal problem-solving and decision-making competencies that may be applied in one’s job and in one’s personal surroundings;
- Social competencies are abilities that enable to act in social surroundings and includes cooperating with other people, interacting with them and building effective relationships; and
- Leadership competencies are abilities that display inspiration for a shared vision to enable others to act or to encourage them.
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