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Case Study 7: Principles of Responsible Management Education as a Tool to Tackle Overtourism—Potentials and Limitations for the University of Catania

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Existing research on overtourism has so far studied the phenomenon mainly from a tourism industry point of view. This chapter adopts a new stand by investigating overtourism from an educational angle. This chapter offers an inductive investigation of sustainability education on tourism courses in Higher Education (HE). As a tool PRME has a strong potential in terms of helping to achieve sustainability, not only in tourism but also in other industries. As far as tourism is concerned, and more specially, tourism education, PRME is not yet a norm or a panacea. It is suggested that for sustainability education to be more strongly embedded in HE provision, PRME needs to develop as a ‘must have’ accreditation.

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    According to the rules introduced by the Italian University reform of the 1999, the application process may be developed in three alternative ways: (i) degrees with open access upon successful completion of secondary school; (ii) degrees with access regulated at national level and therefore that can be accessed upon successful completion of secondary school and of a standardized national entry test; (iii) degrees with access regulated at local level and therefore it can be accessed upon successful completion of secondary school and with a test provided by the University (Durazzi 2014). The latter is the case of the BSc.

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  1. Business School, University of Winchester, Winchester, UK

    Hugues Séraphin

  2. University of Catania, Catania, Italy

    Marco Platania

  3. University of Winchester Business School, Winchester, UK

    Manuela Pilato

  4. AFG College, University of Aberdeen, Doha, Qatar

    Tatiana Gladkikh

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Séraphin, H., Platania, M., Pilato, M., Gladkikh, T. (2020). Case Study 7: Principles of Responsible Management Education as a Tool to Tackle Overtourism—Potentials and Limitations for the University of Catania. In: Séraphin, H., Gladkikh, T., Vo Thanh, T. (eds) Overtourism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42458-9_21

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