Linking internships and classroom learning: A case study examination of hospitality and tourism management students

Marketing tourism and hotel management schools in the context of higher education globalization and student mobility through improved curriculum and industrial training offerings

“…Secondly, almost half of the courses are from the tourism, hospitality, or travel fields, followed by analytical courses (14.8%) such as the computer-based courses, statistics, research methodology, and so on. Lastly, the importance of work-related experience had been emphasized in most of the earlier studies (Collins, 2002;Fong et al, 2014;Stansbie et al, 2016;Yiu & Law, 2012), and this study shows that almost all THM programs require industrial training to provide students with opportunities to enable experiences in real-life settings before they graduate at different levels and durations.…”

Customs Administration Students Usage of Metacognitive Knowledge in their Internships

“…In addition, when a highly metacognitive environment is created, learners are more likely to be able to reflect upon their thoughts, analyze, and detect if and how well they can apply and synthesize conceptual frameworks (Minnes et al, 2017). Stansbie et al (2016) found that students felt that the education they had received prior to their internship had prepared them for the experience and that theories discussed in class were important to them and examples of these theoretical approaches were evident during their practical experiences. However, they also found that students did not necessarily see their classroom education as complementing their internship but rather underpinning the additional learning of new skills and competencies that occurred.…”

“…The provision of authentic experiences in the form of internships can allow students the ability and context to make the connections between their knowledge and how they will be expected to translate that knowledge for usability (Minnes et al, 2017). It is anticipated that students will benefit from enhanced connectivity between their classroom subjects and industry application, which may result in greater levels of motivation toward their studies and improved academic performance (Stansbie et al, 2016).…”

A Systematic Framework of Experiential Learning: Challenging Educators to Make College more than an Aggregation of Credits

“…Kolb's theory has been utilized in multiple disciplines, but is fairly limited within the hospitality and tourism field. However, studies that have been done include those who utilized Kolb's theory to understand different experiential learning approaches for hospitality and tourism management education (Ruhanen, 2006) the use of real world case studies in the classroom (Green & Erdem, 2016), the effect of internships on classroom learning (Stansbie, Nash, & Chang, 2016) and the experiences of students who engaged in a service learning project (Lin, Kim, Qiu, & Ren, 2017). Amongst these studies, we discovered findings that indicated experiential learning activities such as internships and real world case studies do in fact have a positive effect on the learning outcomes of students.…”