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Understanding Generation Y’s attitudes towards a career in the industry

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posted on 2017-12-06, 00:00 authored by Scott Richardson
This chapter examines the attitudes and perceptions of current undergraduate tourism and hospitality students in Australia towards careers in the industry. Areas that students have concerns over include respondent’s relationship with their managers, promotion opportunities, career paths, and the pay and conditions on offer within the industry. Possibly the most alarming finding to come out of this chapter is that more than 50% of respondents are already contemplating careers outside the industry. Of those with work experience in the industry, 38.1% claim that they will not work in the tourism and hospitality industry after graduation, with 91.7% of these respondents’ citing working experience in the industry as the main reason for this decision.

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Category 1 - Australian Competitive Grants (this includes ARC, NHMRC)

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Editor

Benckendorff P; Moscardo G; Pendergast D

Parent Title

Tourism and generation Y

Start Page

131

End Page

142

Number of Pages

12

ISBN-13

9781845936013

Publisher

CABI

Place of Publication

Wallingford, UK

Open Access

  • No

External Author Affiliations

Taylor's University College;

Era Eligible

  • Yes

Number of Chapters

14

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