Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection

Aaron Tham; Eunice Tan; Harng Luh Sin

doi:10.1080/1937156X.2026.2693287

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Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection

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Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection

Aaron Tham, Eunice Tan and Harng Luh Sin

Schole: a journal of leisure studies and recreation education, Vol.Advanced access

25-Jun-2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/1937156X.2026.2693287

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Abstract

Tourism

Environmentally sustainable commercial services and tourism

autoethnography

reflexivity

responsible tourism education

teaching in tourism

tourism education futures

Much has been written about the nomenclature of sustainable tourism education as a vehicle to prepare students for sustainability-centric careers and futures. Yet, despite the wide body of work surrounding the broad conceptualisations of sustainable tourism, the evaluation of sustainable tourism education has largely been nested in the perspectives of student feedback and outcomes. Through a critical collaborative ethnography reflection, we seek to unpack the current body of sustainable tourism education literature, the gaps that exist between theory and practice, and the best practices of how tertiary education can be redesigned toward more impactful and desired outcomes beyond institutional or governmental metrics.

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Title: Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection
Authors: Aaron Tham (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Eunice Tan - Singapore Institute of Management
Harng Luh Sin - Singapore University of Social Sciences
Publication details: Schole: a journal of leisure studies and recreation education, Vol.Advanced access
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/1937156X.2026.2693287
Copyright note: © 2026 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; Healthy Ageing Research Cluster; Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; Sustainability Research Cluster
Language: English
Record Identifier: 991238998802621
Output Type: Journal article

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