MODUL University Vienna at the Future of Tourism Education Summit 2010

by Tina Roenhovde Tiller — 04/22/2010

From April 15-18, 2010, the fourth Future of Tourism Education Summit took place in San Sebastian, Spain. This year 33 representatives of 20 leading universities offering study programs in tourism attended the Summit in order to discuss the future of tourism education. MODUL University Vienna was represented by Professor Dagmar Lund-Durlacher and Professor Karl Wöber.  

An important outcome of the TEFI process is a set of five value-based principles that tourism students should embody upon graduation in order to become responsible leaders and stewards of the destinations where they work or live. The five value sets are: 1. Ethics; 2. Stewardship; 3. Knowledge; 4. Professialism and 5. Mutuality, and are portrayed as interlocking value principles because of their interconnectedness and their permeability. A White Paper provides more detail on these value sets, how they can  be incorporated into the learning experience for tourism students, and examples of courses incorporating these values. MODUL University Vienna is one of the first universities that have adapted the TEFI values in their educational and institutional plans.

 

Participants at the Future of Tourism Education Summit 2010Participants at the Future of Tourism Education Summit 2010

 

 

 

People in the picture (sample): Bihu Wu (Peking University), Cathy Hsu (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Daniel Fesenmaier (Temple University), Gayle Jennings (Griffith University), Gianna Moscardo (James Cook University), Christian Schott (Victoria University), John Tribe (University of Surrey), Leo Jago (University of Nottingham), Pauline Sheldon (University of Hawaii), Ulrike Gretzel (Texas A&M University), Chris Cooper (Oxford Brookes University), Karl Wöber and Dagmar Lund-Durlacher (MODUL University Vienna).

For more information about TEFI see www.tourismeducation.info

For more information about MODUL University's fundamental values of education see http://www.modul.ac.at/about

Contact:
Tina Tiller, MODUL University Vienna, Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management, Am Kahlenberg 1, 1190 Wien, Austria
tina.tiller@modul.ac.at | www.modul.ac.at/tiller

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