LEARNING ACHEVEMENT IN HIGH EDUCATION OF TOURISM IN IMPLEMENTING INDONESIA?S NATIONAL QUALIFICATION FRAMEWORK (KKNI) (A CASE STUDY ON HIGH EDUCATION OF TOURISM IN DAERAH ISTIMEWA YOGYAKARTA)

  • Author: Muhamad
  • From: Master Program in Tourism Studies Graduate School of Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta

Abstract:

Today, tourism has become an independent science and is equal to other fields of study. Recently, many studies appear to underline the importance of tourism education and each country begins to develop tourism education. Many steps are taken, including ministry of tourism, to take parts in developing tourism study program. One of the steps taken is by establishing higher education of tourism. However, there is a problem in conducting higher education of tourism, which is the insufficiency of human resources in tourism field and it is less than 10 percent. In fact, there are 380 tourism agencies in Indonesia which need a lot of employees in tourism field including tourism industry. The major cause in the problem mentioned is the lack of equality in learning achievement process of scientific education which leads to its development has not yet been done optimally. This research aims to examine the learning achievement in higher education of tourism. Case study method is applied for exploring several institutions using in depth interview and observation as the data collection technique to see their learning achievement has meets the level of KKNI.

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