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What Do Hospitality Students Find Important About Internships?

What Do Hospitality Students Find Important About Internships? The study reported herein aimed to determine the importance and value of internships in the hospitality industry to students so that academic institutions, receiving organizations, and the students themselves can better prepare for placements in the future. Content analysis was applied to the placement reports submitted by 279 students at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management in the author's home institution. Based on a simple counting of placement attributes mentioned by the students, the analysis yielded nine themes. How the findings can be used to enhance student satisfaction with internships and how the enhanced internship experiences can help solve career problems are discussed. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal Of Teaching In Travel & Tourism Taylor & Francis

What Do Hospitality Students Find Important About Internships?

Journal Of Teaching In Travel & Tourism , Volume 10 (3): 14 – Aug 30, 2010
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Taylor & Francis
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Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1531-3239
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1531-3220
DOI
10.1080/15313221003792027
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Abstract

The study reported herein aimed to determine the importance and value of internships in the hospitality industry to students so that academic institutions, receiving organizations, and the students themselves can better prepare for placements in the future. Content analysis was applied to the placement reports submitted by 279 students at the School of Hotel and Tourism Management in the author's home institution. Based on a simple counting of placement attributes mentioned by the students, the analysis yielded nine themes. How the findings can be used to enhance student satisfaction with internships and how the enhanced internship experiences can help solve career problems are discussed.

Journal

Journal Of Teaching In Travel & TourismTaylor & Francis

Published: Aug 30, 2010

Keywords: placement; placement report; internship; work-integrated education; content analysis

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