ATHE 2009 CONFERENCE
NAVIGATING SHIFTING SANDS AND MOVING MOUNTAINS:
New Paradigms for Tourism and Tourism Education?
Co-convened by Sheffield Hallam University
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CONTEXT
The last 30 years are beginning to be
challenged more seriously, generating an intellectually exciting time when it is
appropriate for academics to reflect on their contribution to helping shape the
landscape of tourism as part of society. How should future tourism curricula
influence the way we encourage students to think about the challenges facing the
world, themselves and the role of tourism in that changing and uncertain world?
Conference themes
- The future of capitalism - tourism market models and HE
- Equipping students with the intellectual ability to fundamentally consider and
challenge systems they may work in and inter-disciplinary knowledge, research
and analytic skills to enable creative, innovative thinking and to generate new
solutions
- Curricula and content e.g focus, relevance
- Political intervention
- Role and validity of benchmarks
- Management of the curriculum
- Quality systems; quality content; quality of experience
- Barriers to change
- Value for money for students
- Reducing costs through reducing beaurocracy
- Role of risk and risk management
- Demographic change
- Issues concerning tourism and wider society
- Sustainability of tourism
- Sustainability of tourism as a subject in HE institutions
- Employability in tourism /new skills for a new society?
- Professional academics
- 14 – 19 Diplomas – what impact will these have?
EXHIBITORS
REGISTRATION
ATHE rate applies to delegates from ATHE member institutions. If you wish
to check whether your institution is a member of ATHE or have any other queries,
please contact
secretary@athe.org.uk.
PROGRAMME
Click
here for a copy of detailed programme (PDF file)
INFORMATION
Please contact Lyn Bibbings (Chair)
ljbibbings@brookes.ac.uk or Merz Hoare (Administrator)
secretary@athe.org.uk for further
information.
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