As the world faces many serious challenges informed, courageous and mindful leadership is
needed for a better future. The Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) is the collective …

The Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) seeks to provide vision, knowledge, and a
framework for tourism education programs that promote global citizenship and optimism for …

Founded in 2007, the Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI) has organized several
meetings to discuss critical issues that need to be addressed in creating desirable and …

The world faces many challenges, of which one of the most important is creating the leaders
of tomorrow. With an explicit charge of universities to take a leading role in educating …

This paper reports on an initiative to examine the future of tourism education into the years
2010–2030. A group of 45 senior tourism educators and industry experts came together for a …

Convinced that tourism education needs serious rethinking, the Tourism Education Futures
Initiative (TEFI) has a mission to be the leading, forwardlooking network that inspires …

Among the many intellectual treasures left to the modern world by the ancient Greeks is the
notion of paideia. In contrast to the term banausos, which means technical, skill-building …

Origin In recent years, it has become increasingly obvious that tourism education needs
serious rethinking. Surging growth in tourism arrivals and receipts, going strong since the …

This article summarizes the development of tourism curricula over the past 20 years from the
perspective of global tourism. The paper proposes a generic framework for a future tourism …

This opinion piece questions the current thinking that underlies tourism education and
training in the 21st century. There is no doubt that tourism education and training went …