Students' Internship and the Higher Education in Tourism in Support of the Regional Businesses: Methodology

Mariya Veleva () and Krasimira Yancheva ()
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Mariya Veleva: University of Economics - Varna
Krasimira Yancheva: University of Economics - Varna

Izvestia Journal of the Union of Scientists - Varna. Economic Sciences Series, 2019, vol. 8, issue 1, 129-140

Abstract: The goal of this paper is to highlight the problems and opportunities for integrating university graduates in the tourism industry through their practical internship, and to propose a methodology for measuring its effectiveness. The research brings out the most common problems and peculiarities, in twelve countries, in the practical training of tourism students: overtime without payment; lack of supervision and control of the students' performance; insufficient on-boarding; lack of on-the-job training; students become subject to dark leadership and are directly discriminated against or denied full rights to work and fair pay; gap between too high job expectations and reality; The curricula does not always meet the needs of the tourism practice. Based on the analysis of the students' internship in the specialty "Tourism" at the University of Economics - Varna, a new methodology for measuring its effectiveness is proposed.

Keywords: tourism; students' internship; higher education in tourism; tourism graduates; research methodology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.36997/IJUSV-ESS/2019.8.1.129

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