The educational value of “captive hotels”

LeBruto, Stephen M.

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“…Although it was believed that contacting this large number of existing facilities would increase the likelihood of obtaining a suffi ciently large number of responses, a decision was made to predominantly focus on an area that was near the researcher ' s university. In addition, the concern that mailing questionnaires may elicit a low response rate as previously reported in many hospitality studies (see, for example, LeBruto and Murray, 1994 ;Lucas, 1999 ;Keegan and Lucas, 2005 ;Nickson et al , 2005 ;Kay and Moncarz, 2007 ) was a potential factor that led the researcher to choose interviews over mailed questionnaires.…”

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Importance of Relationships among Small Accommodation Operations around the City of Perth

Alonso¹

2010

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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Numerous business studies discuss the importance of networks, strategic alliances and collaborative relationships for businesses. Despite such rich body of knowledge, however, such discussion appears to have fallen short of including small hospitality operations. In fact, hospitality industry studies exploring these dimensions are few and far between. Seeking to gather information and contribute to the limited body of knowledge in these areas, this study uses semi-structured interviews among 21 small accomodation operations around the city of Perth (Western Australia), including self-contained, bed and breakfast and farm-stay businesses. The overall tone of respondents' comments emphasises the critical value of collaborative relationships in ways that include referral of business and mutually beneficial exchanges with other local businesses. Furthermore, respondents' comments suggest that working collaboratively stimulates the growth of commercial opportunities among participating operations. Equally important is that some operators are able to design long-term strategies that might positively impact their community. For example, strong collaborative relationships can potentially enhance a destination's image with further implications for the area's promotion and marketability, while providing a positive experience for visitors.

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Importance of Relationships among Small Accommodation Operations around the City of Perth

Alonso¹

2010

Tourism and Hospitality Research

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“…Parveen and Mirza (2012) also stress that a planned internship program may serve the following functions: understanding of the target profession, opportunity of providing valuable exposure to the job, development of professional skills and attitudes as well as establishment of useful contacts. Students, especially those who already have work experience, can develop management competences (Yiu & Law, 2013;LeBruto & Murray, 1994).…”

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The role of tourism and hospitality companies in ensuring an effective internship process

Doniņa

2020

JECS

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Tourism and hospitality education has only been provided in Latvia as a separate curriculum relatively recently. According to legislation, the curriculum should consist of study courses, internships and the state exam. Cooperation between all stakeholders is crucial in order to achieve the goal of internship – to increase students’ knowledge and to develop skills in the study area chosen. The purpose of this study is to explore cooperation between higher educational establishments and companies targeted at enhancing students’ employability skills. The survey was conducted in Latvia by addressing managers of 154 tourism and hospitality industry companies in 2014. The findings showed that only 51.30% of the companies plan interns’ job assignment during internship on the basis of an internship programme and in 35.06% of the cases higher educational establishments do not contact internship companies for feedback at all. This means that, despite the importance of internships in developing students’ skills, cooperation among all stakeholders does not proceed in the best possible manner. It is suggested to improve cooperation at all stages of internship – at the planning, organisational and control stages.

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“…Both the educational establishments (Fitzgerald & Cullen, 1991;Ford & LeBruto, 1995;2019) and employers (Partlow, 1996;Harris, 1997;Lyons & Branston, 2006) around the world have adopted this approach. The element of training is taken into account seriously by universities, hence the development of "sandwich" undergraduate courses that incorporate a period of industrial placement (Hogg, 1994;LeBruto & Murray, 1994;Christou, 2003) aiming at the blending of theory with practical experience through experiential learning (DiMicelli, 1998;Nair & George, 2016). It should be noted that, what is called in Europe as "industrial placement period" or more often as "supervised work experience" is usually called in North America as "internship".…”

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“…Notes for tables 1, 2, & 3: a) Respondents could choose more than one alternative answer b) Percentages are rounded to nearest non decimal number c) The competencies examined are considered as most important for hotel manager traineesLeBruto & Murray, 1994). Notes for the tables 4 & 5: a) Respondents could choose only one alternative answer b) Percentages are rounded to nearest non decimal number…”

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Experiential learning through industrial placement in hospitality education: The meat in the sandwich

Christou

Chatzigeorgiou

2020

Preprint

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The element of training is taken into account seriously by universities providing tourism education degrees, hence the development of “sandwich” undergraduate courses that incorporate a period of industrial placement aiming at the blending of theory with practical experience through experiential learning. The survey presented here was conducted in Greece and is objective was to evaluate the outcome of the supervised work experience by examining the views of undergraduate tourism and hospitality management students who completed their industrial placement period. Data were obtained through personal interviews and were of both qualitative and quantitative nature. The tentative results of the research, as described in this exploratory study, indicate some areas for concern and allows for conclusions to be drawn in relation to further improving and enhancing experiential learning.

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The educational value of “captive hotels”

Cited by 11 publications

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Importance of Relationships among Small Accommodation Operations around the City of Perth

Importance of Relationships among Small Accommodation Operations around the City of Perth

The role of tourism and hospitality companies in ensuring an effective internship process

Experiential learning through industrial placement in hospitality education: The meat in the sandwich

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