Tourism Education and Asia

Claire Liu is the head of the Tourism and Event Management department and a senior lecturer in tourism management at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. Claire serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Tourism Cities and the Journal of China Tourism Research. She has published chapters in edited books. Claire’s research interests include the Chinese tourism market, tourism quality management, environmental management systems, tourism and hospitality education, quantitative and qualitative methodologies, tourism entrepreneurship, museum and tourism volunteers, and hospitality green marketing.Heike Schänzel is an associate professor at the Auckland University of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand, and has extensive editorial experience with book publications (Family Tourism and Femininities in the Field: Researching Tourism with Channel View and Children, Families and Leisure with Routledge) and journal special issues (Annals of Leisure Research and Hospitality & Society). Her research interests include tourist behaviour and experiences; families, children and adolescents in tourism; sociality in tourism; innovative educational practices; femininities and paternal masculinities in tourism research; innovative and qualitative research methodologies; and critical theory development in tourism and hospitality.

• Foreword.- ​Part 1. Introduction to the book. 1. Introduction to Tourism Education and Asia by Claire Liu and Heike Schänzel, AUT University.- Part 2. Tourism Education in Asia. 2. Differentiating Academic and Vocational Hospitality and Tourism Education: The Milieu of Indonesia by Hera Oktadiana and Kaye Chon.- 3. Vocational Education and Training for Hospitality and Tourism Industry in India by Saurabh Kumar Dixit and Hakamelamphylla Mawroh.- 4.  Situation Analysis of Tourism and Hospitality Management Education in Nepal by Brijesh Thapa and Smrittee Kala Panta.- 5. Tourism higher education in Iran: Past, Present and Future Directions by Siamak Seyfi,  Adel Nikjoo and Masoud A.Samimi.- 6. Review and Assessment of Academic Tourism and Hospitality Programmes in China by Andreas H. Zins and Se You Jang.- 7. Hotel and Tourism Management Education in Bhutan: The Creation of the Royal Institute of Tourism and Hospitalityby Paul Strickland.- 8. Tourism education in Vietnam by Erwin Losekoot, Earney Lasten and Phu Cuong Tran.- 9. The Institutional Context for Experiential Learning Investment in Hospitality Education: A case study from Thailand by Karl Basil Dicen, Chachaya Yodsuwan and Ken Butcher.- Part 3. Tourism Education of Asian students abroad. 10. Outcomes and Challenges of a Cooperative and Intercultural Learning Project: A Critical Analysis by Anya Diekmann, Martin Vincent, and Jyotsna Patwardhan.- 11. Career Goals of Chinese International Tourism and Hospitality Students in Australia by Katrine Sonnenschein.- 12. The Push-Pull Model of Motivation: An Analysis of Chinese Polytechnic Students’ Motivation to Pursue Degree Completion in Canada by Eugene Thomlinson and Rebecca Wilson-Mah.- Part 4. Transnational Tourism Education in Asia. 13. Research Performance of the TedQual-certified Programmes of Tourism and Hospitality in Greater China by Libo Yan.- 14. Patterns of Tourism and Hospitality Education in India and Malaysia – A Critical Reflection by Sudipta Kiran Sarkar.- 15. Hospitality, Tourism and Global Education in Asia: A Transnational Conundrum? Current thoughts and anecdotes by Andrew Jones.