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The Future of Tourism Education Just after the COVID-19

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It is almost impossible to discuss the future of tourism education without debating the post COVID-19 context. The industry of tourism not only was a perfect carrier for this virus but also its main victim. In some hindsight, COVID-19 led the industry on the bring of collapse but opening some doors to new opportunities in the fields of tourism education. The academic curricula are far from being updated. This chapter explores the limitations of current curricula and the opportunities for the next years. Most certainly, COVID-19 has triggered a hot debate in the Academia. Whilst some voices alert on the epistemological problem in studying tourism in a world without tourists, others see in the pandemic an opportunity to degrowth tourism. Quite aside from the discrepancy, this chapter sheds light on the potentialities of PANCOE to cope with frustrated students. Of course, since the sample is not statistically representative the findings should not be extrapolated to other universes.

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Zuccoli, A., Korstanje, M.E. (2023). The Future of Tourism Education Just after the COVID-19. In: The Role of Pleasure to Improve Tourism Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21580-3_6

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