Enhancing and Complementing the Instruction of Tourism and Hospitality Courses Through the Use of On-line Educational Tools

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate current levels of use and factors affecting application of Internet tools, i.e. the World Wide Web and electronic discussion groups, for enhancing and complementing traditional modes of teaching tourism and hospitality courses. 81 educators from all over the world were surveyed for exploring whether and how they use the Internet in instructing their courses. The majority of the educators teaching hospitality and tourism management courses use the Internet in their instruction, but at different levels and approaches; research findings revealed that Internet tools' and capabilities are very limited used for educational purposes.