The trials, successes, and best practices of work integrated learning in tourism
A special issue of CABI Tourism Cases explores the trials, successes, and best practice examples of work integrated learning in tourism, hospitality, events, and recreation degree programs. The six case studies are free to access until September 30, 2024.
Contents
Work integrated learning in tourism: The context
Academic institutions around the world continue to emphasise the importance of developing ‘job ready’ graduates.
To this end, work integrated learning in tourism, hospitality, or any other profession, aims to enhance students’ employability by linking the knowledge they are taught to their future careers; a connection that is often hard to establish without practical experience.
This special issue of CABI Tourism Cases explores the trials, tribulations, successes, and best practice examples of work integrated learning (WIL) opportunities offered to students within tourism, hospitality, events, and recreation degree programs.
The cases
Guest-edited by Niki Macionis and Gabby Walters, both of the University of Queensland, Australia, these six cases are free to access until September 30, 2024:
Virtual Area Guide Training program in Sri Lanka
This case study explores the innovative Virtual Area Guide Training Program conducted in Sri Lanka in 2022, aimed at transforming the tourism sector from informal to formal, enhancing sustainability. In the face of challenges like terrorism, the pandemic, and an economic crisis, the program selected and trained 20 individuals from the underdeveloped Uva province as tour guides.
An EVENTful Course-University Partnership
This case study describes a meaningful classroom-university WIL collaboration that executed course and campus objectives in a novel peer-mentorship design, and prepared future event management graduates for industry while navigating the COVID-19 pandemic.
Future-proofing Events Management Students Through Experiential Learning
This case explores the connections between technical, discipline-based skills learned in an undergraduate event management unit and transferable, generic employability skills developed by students in the course of their experiential learning. The study details the unique design features of this learning experience, including those made in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
How the Online Learning Assistant Program Supported Course Instructor Wellbeing during a Transition to Remote Teaching
This case describes the positive impact of the University of Waterloo’s online learning assistant (OLA) program on one leisure studies course instructor’s wellbeing during a transition to remote teaching. In partnership with the OLA, the instructor created a supportive remote-learning environment for students that resulted in a remote-teaching award.
Work-integrated Learning Projects: An Alternative Approach
This case study provides a detailed exploration of WIL projects at the University of Queensland. It provides an overview of an alternative, flexible approach to WIL (compared to the traditional internship model), and discusses some of the challenges faced in running WIL projects and how they were resolved.
Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in the Indo-Pacific: A Village Stay Model
In the WIL program described in this case, university students collaborated with eco-resorts and local villagers to create commercially viable experiential village stays.
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