Tourism students’ career strategies in times of disruption

Reichenberger, Ina; Raymond, Eliza

doi:10.1016/j.jhtm.2021.06.011

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“…As mentioned in the literature review, the research focused on examining university tourism students' professional identity is very limited [7,28]-the prior research on professional identity mainly concentrated on educational and medical students [40,80]. This study further verified the impact of professional identity on learning engagement [11,13]. The employment prospect of university tourism students in China is not optimistic, and students' professional identity shows a downward trend.…”

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“…Professional identity varies due to different influencing factors such as individual characteristics. Therefore, differentiated education guiding policies are formulated according to students' identity in order to enhance the fit between individuals and the tourism major, and to improve the implementation effects of identity policies [11]. In addition, according to the characteristics of senior students, the corresponding professional identity education policies are carried out to develop students' attachment to the tourism major [89].…”

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“…The COVID-19 pandemic has severely impacted employment in the tourism and hotel industry, with an estimated 100-120 million direct job losses worldwide at the beginning of the epidemic [10]. Since the outbreak of COVID-19, tourism education was also badly affected, and re-building students' professional confidence has attracted extensive attention [11][12][13]. The number of Chinese students who would like to choose tourism majors for university education has been declining, and the rate of transferring tourism majors has increased after entering university [14].…”

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Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Undergraduate Tourism Students’ Professional Identity on Learning Engagement

Chen

Han

2021

Sustainability

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Under the background of higher education reform, undergraduate tourism students’ professional identity may play an important role in affecting students’ learning engagement and the sustainable development of tourism higher education. Data were collected from 551 Chinese undergraduate tourism students to investigate the potential relationships between professional identity and learning engagement. Based on the theory of social identity, professional identity is perceived as a progressive, dynamic process including professional cognition, professional appraisal, and professional emotion. The data were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM), and the findings confirmed that professional identity was in positive correlation with employee engagement. Furthermore, the results showed that professional cognition has positive influences on professional appraisal, professional emotion, and learning engagement, and professional appraisal has positive influences on professional emotion and learning engagement. In addition, the mediating effects of professional appraisal and professional emotion between professional cognition and learning engagement were analyzed, respectively. This study contributes to the understanding of the impacts of tourism students’ professional identity on learning engagement. Both theoretical and practical implications are provided.

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Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Undergraduate Tourism Students’ Professional Identity on Learning Engagement

Chen

Han

2021

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“…We asked several questions to understand how the Medan tourism polytechnic develops student work skills in the hospitality sector with a multimedia approach. Thus we can understand what skills they receive and how the tourism polytechnic guides students to become hotel workers with exciting careers (Reichenberger & Raymond, 2021).…”

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Development of Employability Skills of Hospitality Students through Interactive Multimedia Approaches at Medan Tourism Polytechnics

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Syahputra

2022

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The article aims to analyze how to develop employability skills for Medan tourism polytechnic students through a multimedia system approach at the Medan tourism polytechnic. By interviewing several academics at the Medan Polytechnic tourism Department, we have obtained valuable data, including how academicians prepare students to develop their working skills in the hospitality world with a technological approach. We designed this study qualitatively with semi-structured interviews and reviewed secondary data. We finally got some valuable input. The coordinators and lecturers of the Medan Tourism Polytechnic have developed the abilities of their students who are ready to enter the world of a career in the future. The skills they prepared include, for example, being flexible workers, having industry awareness then, having attention to detail skills, time management, interpersonal skills and communication skills, and so on. Hopefully, these findings will become input for developing help studies and labeling skills for future students. Keywords: Employability Skills, Multimedia Interactive, Multimedia Approaches

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“…Concerning such practice and research, a prominent topic is career management in terms of employability (Eurico et al, 2015). The main reason for highlighting this topic is that challenges in the tourism and hospitality industries reinforce students' heavy employment pressure in their future job market (Reichenberger & Raymond, 2021), especially under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic (Benaraba et al, 2022) Accordingly, today, the job prospects for those graduating majors in tourism and hospitality are far less promising than they used to be.…”

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Future orientation and perceived employability of chinese undergraduates: a moderated mediation model

Chen

Jiang

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Curr Psychol

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Although scholars and practitioners have highlighted the significance of students’ attitudes for their future employment, few empirical examinations have attempted to determine the potential association between students’ future orientation and their perceived employability. Thus, drawing on career construction theory, we test the positive effect of students’ future orientation on their perceived employability by exploring the mediator of problem-based learning and the moderators of job market knowledge and proactive personality. Collecting our data via a time-lagged design (N = 368), we have found that the positive association between future orientation and employability is mediated by problem-based learning. Our moderation analyses further revealed that job market knowledge positively moderates the relationship between future orientation and problem-based learning and that students’ proactive personality positively moderates the relationship between problem-based learning and perceived employability.

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Tourism students’ career strategies in times of disruption

Cited by 19 publications

References 52 publications

Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Undergraduate Tourism Students’ Professional Identity on Learning Engagement

Understanding the Impacts of Chinese Undergraduate Tourism Students’ Professional Identity on Learning Engagement

Development of Employability Skills of Hospitality Students through Interactive Multimedia Approaches at Medan Tourism Polytechnics

Future orientation and perceived employability of chinese undergraduates: a moderated mediation model

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