Commitment to Sustainable Development in Higher Education Tourism Curriculum

Training the next generation of the tourism industry human resources is vital in sustainability. Therefore, Higher education should provide education and skill programs for tourism students with an education for sustainability and create learning opportunities on real-life projects that provide the necessary skills and expertise for a more sustainable world. The purpose of this study was to investigate how to use the approach of sustainable tourism development in the design of higher education curriculum.

The research method was applied in objective and qualitative data collection and theoretical research method. For this purpose, the basic concepts and components of the logic of curriculum design were extracted according to the approach of sustainable development and attention to the positions of social constructivist learning theory and educational perspective based on critical theory. Finally, the characteristics of curriculum elements related to sustainable tourism were identified. And the desired framework was designed. The Delphi method was used to validate the sustainable tourism curriculum design model and the validity of the said model was checked and confirmed by experts and experts.Discussion and

The results obtained indicate that the commitment to a sustainable development approach in the field of the curriculum involves a range of comprehensive expertise in the field of tourism that is not easily adapted and adapted in the current educational framework. Therefore, paying attention to the commitment and the commitment of the sustainable development approach in the tourism curriculum can provide the basis for redesigning the curriculum according to the basic assumptions of the sustainable development approach, creating opportunities and innovation in learning, learning outcomes, and student readiness. Understanding the concept of sustainability can also help tourism professors and students evaluate and improve their curriculum with regard to sustainable tourism education