The Dilemma of ‘Good’ Teaching in Tourism

Abstract

There has been a lot of debate on' good' teaching and core curricula in tourism, but few inquiries into the relationship between teaching, scholarship, and research in this subject from the viewpoint of both the 'student' and the 'teacher'. This is partly due to lack of understanding of inter-disciplinarity and multi-disciplinarity required to be a good teacher, and absence of holism that is the sine qua non of tourism studies. These limitations are also a result of the fact that, in this age of specialization and superspecialization, broad as well as in-depth study of the parent disciplines is difficult and often not undertaken, but culminates in a limited understanding of the emerging discipline of tourism studies, which is expanding its frontiers rapidly and requires both specialization and generalization.

Research and Innovation on Chinese-Foreign Cooperation in Running Schools in Tourism Education

“…The development of economic globalization has promoted the exchange and cooperation of cultures and educations around the world. Countries around the world have paid more attention to the influence of their higher education in the global education market (Singh, 2014). Cooperative education usually is the schoolrunning model to enrol the domestic citizens as the training objects based on the cooperation between foreign educational institutions and domestic institutions.…”