Transnational tourism education and student approaches to learning: is there a mismatch?

ABSTRACT

This article employs a novel approach by investigating Chinese students from a transnational tourism management programme in Hong Kong and Chinese students studying on a similar programme at the degree-awarding UK university. This quantitative study investigates whether there are any differences between two groups of students in terms of their approaches to learning, preferred learning and teaching methods and their satisfaction with the programme. The findings demonstrate significant differences between the two cohorts, indicating that a programme cannot be easily exported. The implications of the findings for the transnational curriculum, learning and teaching practice and theories of student approaches to learning are discussed.

KEYWORDS:

• Transnational tourism education
• approaches to learning
• learning and teaching methods
• curriculum
• student satisfaction

Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful for the detailed and useful feedback from Reviewer 1, Reviewer 2 and the Editor. Furthermore, they would like to thank all participants and teachers involved in this cross-country study.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.