María del Carmen Mínguez García|Carlos Martínez Hernández|Claudia Bernabé
Higher education and the sustainable tourism pedagogy: Are tourism students ready to lead change in the post pandemic era?
Universidad Complutense de Madrid|Universidad Complutense de Madrid|Universidad Complutense de Madrid
present context covid19 pandemics highlighted vulnerability tourism sustainable tourism needs thoroughly implemented confront crises sustainable tourism pedagogies must accompany process especially terms students professional skills essential overcoming crisis situations paper seeks evaluate degrees tourism spain perspective students teachers order show extent consider students sufficiently qualified address challenges required tourism sector deal crises answer question turned sustainable tourism pedagogy stp framework critical analysis tourism studies based six areas literacy article use empirical analysis stp core literacies evaluated statistically validated questionnaire addressed 393 respondents data analysis performed analytical descriptive techniques results show tourism degrees meet needs todays students especially major lack sustainability issues ii significant gaps perception teachers students iii calls sustainable tourism pedagogy higher education paper concludes highlighting urgent need revise official national programmes