An Integrated Approach to Internationalizing the Hospitality and Tourism Curriculum in the USA

Policies and Strategies in Internationalizing the Hospitality Education in Taiwan

“…The need for the internalization of hospitality and tourism education could simply be based on the reason that tourism and hospitality is by definition, an international industry, and that employees are likely to meet foreigners at all job levels. In addition, due to the impacts from globalization and international mobility, many scholars (Black, 2004;Gursoy & Umbreit, 2003;Hobson & Josiam, 1996;Jayawardena, 2001) suggest that tourism and hospitality industry employees will become multinational and multicultural. As Jayawardena (2001) mentions, the hotel sector all over the world has faced many international and people oriented challenges.…”

“…International Journal of Education ISSN 1948-5476 2011 increased in the past ten years. Much of the research focuses on comparative studies in curriculum and program design (Christou & Sigala, 2003;Formica, 1996;Gursoy & Umbreit, 2003;Horng, 2004), strategies and approaches to internationalization (Black, 2004;Chon, 1990;Hobson & Josiam, 1996;Jayawardena, 2001), and case studies of certain countries (Horng & Lee, 2005;Sangpikul, 2009). None of this has focused on school-level analysis.…”