Asian Students Now See Hospitality and Tourism as Viable Career Options
Photo Credit: Hospitality graduates at Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland. Flickr / Les Roches International School of Hotel Management
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As Chinese and other Asian students watch their countries' outbound tourism increase, they're seeing an opportunity to better tourism in their own backyards by getting educated in countries where their friends and families are traveling to. They can then adapt some of these learnings for local tourism needs.
As tourists from China and other Asian countries start streaming into popular destinations, Asian students are beginning to populate hospitality and tourism programs more so than in the past.
A visit to a major tourist attraction in any corner of the globe or a stay at a large urban hotel likely includes brushes with numerous strands of diversity.
Determining how to cater and serve these diverse tourists, especially the influx of tourists from China, is a strategy that many hotels and destinations have on their drawing boards.
Students from Asian countries are responding to this market need.
Les Roches International School of Hotel Management in Switzerland has a student body that's 53% Asian, 35% European and the remaining 12% hail from the Americas, Africa and the Middle East. These percentages yield 99 nationalitie
