Innovation in tourism education development

Abstract

Although much of the discussion on the permanent process of innovation focuses on new products and technologies, all innovation is based on challenging existing assumptions and ways of thinking, in particular, it is argued, as a result of education and training. This paper argues that one option for developing the new ways of thinking in the management of innovation in tourism is the use of complicated and miscellaneous tourism educational program models. The analyses of tourism educational developmental history show that being contemporary it is a new educational sphere. A special place is allocated to analyses of multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary studies in higher education, development educational program models. At the end a suggestion is made to discuss the conceptual issues regarding coordination of the interests of students, employers and teaching staff in enhancing the quality of higher education in tourism. Material for the paper has been gathered through contacting experts in the field and conducting extensive literary reviews.