Environmental Education and Tourism

Doctors' education: Sponsored medical tourism.

Knowledge Transfer in Tourism Education: A Case of Tourism Marketing

Knowledge dissemination among tourism stakeholders is vital to the overall development of tourism. Yet, this topic has been under-investigated in past tourism literature. Taking the courses on tourism marketing as an example, this study examined what and how knowledge is being disseminated in the classroom. Based on the Sender-Message-Channel-Receiver (SMCR) model (Shannon, 1948), the current s...

Environmental Education and Awareness

Contents 1. Introduction 2. The problem in context — some of the man-made environmental problems with potentially catastrophic consequences for life on earth 3. How did we get here? Evolution of human attitude to nature and the natural environment 3.1.

Toward a Framework for Tourism Education

Jafari , Jafar , J . R. Brent Rltchie, Toward a F ramework For Tour i sm Education: Problems and Prospects. Annals of Tour i sm Research 1981, VIII(I):13-34. The purpose of this article is to offer a f ramework for analysis and discussion of tour ism education. It first adopts a definition of tour ism within which interaction among its componen t s and ex t raneous aspects are considered. Speci...

Tourism Education : Life Begins at 40

It is difficult to put a precise date on the start of tourism education but, as the author has already commented (Airey 2005b : 13), it was during the 1960s that “a number of key changes in tourism [itself], in education and in society more generally,” led to the emergence of tourism “both as a clear area of study in its own right and as a subject for study to diploma and degree level and for r...