Environmental Education in Tourism: a Comparison between Canada and Japan
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Telfer, David J [1] ; Hashimoto, Atsuko [1]
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[1] Brock University
Brock University
Canadá
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- Localización: Journal of hospitality and tourism education, ISSN 1096-3758, Vol. 13, Nº. 1, 2001, págs. 18-24
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
With an increase in concern over the state of the planet, environmental education has come to the forefront. While environmental impacts and sustainable tourism development have dominated recent tourism research, this trend—until recently—has only received minimal coverage in the tourism curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to examine the models of the tourism programs at the university level and to investigate the level of environmental education in undergraduate tourism programs in Canadian and Japanese universities. Course descriptions were collected and analyzed. The Business/Management Model dominates Japanese universities while tourism in Canada is mainly offered under the Liberal Arts Model. There are few tourism degree programs with an environmental focus, however, a growing number of ‘tourism and environment’ courses are identified. With tourism emerging as one of the largest interrelated global industries, there is a need to increase the level of holistic environmental education across tourism degree programs.
