- Title
- The professionalisation of tourism: preparing the way for the portfolio careerist in Australia
- Creator
- Lyons, Kevin D.
- Relation
- Tourism Development Revisited: Concepts, Issues and Paradigms p. 331-340
- Relation
- http://www.uk.sagepub.com/booksProdDesc.nav?contribId=633706&prodId=Book232803#tabview=toc
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Tourism is on the cutting edge of the services focussed industries that have emerged in post-industrial contexts. Recent research suggests that this growth in tourism and related labour demand has not been adequately served by supply and has resulted in a labour shortage across the gamut of jobs in the industry from unskilled, through semi-skilled to senior executive positions (Hjalager and Andersen 2001). Unskilled workers have always been the mainstay of the tourism labour market, especially in developing countries (Vanhove 2005). However, while unskilled positions will remain, the demand for such workers will be eclipsed by the need for professional personnel, who can lead the industry in the future (Department of Industry, Tourism and Resources 2002). This trend towards a demand for skilled and credentialed workers has been widely recognised as a key indicator that the tourism labour market is undergoing a process of professionalisation (Gee 1997; Hjalager and Andersen 2001). Gee (1997) has commented that this is especially true in fast growing destinations in the Asia-Pacific region. Currently, countries, such as Australia, that have relatively well-developed tourism training and education systems are increasingly attractive to neighbouring countries who seek skilled expatriates to fill professional positions.
- Subject
- tourism; services focussed industries; labour demand; unskilled; professionalisation
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804648
- Identifier
- uon:6683
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780761936336
- Language
- eng
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