Resumen de Room to move?: the challenges of career mobility for tourism education
This paper critically examines the degree to wich tourism education prepares students for professional career mobility. It considers the changing nature of a professinonal tourism career and highlights a disconnection between the realities of career mobility that dominate the industru and the linear careers that tourism education promotes and tourism graduates expect. This paper ilustrates how this disconnectedness has manifested in tourism education in Australia, and argues that a focus on occupation-specific skills in the vocational education and training (VET) and higher education sectors has failed to adequately prepare graduates for mobile careers in a beyond the tourism industry. It concludes by suggesting that alternatives to preparing students for career mobility are available but require shifting focus from a skills-centric approach to one that emphasizes developing in students an ability to strategically plan for portfolio careers.
