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The state of travel and tourism human resources in Latin America

✍ Scribed by Abraham Pizam

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 1999
Tongue: English
Weight: 115 KB
Volume: 20
Category: Article
ISSN: 0261-5177
DOI: 10.1016/s0261-5177(99)00026-6

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✦ Synopsis

The results of a study undertaken among 209 Travel and Tourism enterprises and 17 National Tourist O$ces in Latin America, indicate a shortage of quali"ed human resources, and de"ciencies in foreign languages, computers and marketing skills. Participants expressed the opinion that there were not enough external tourism education and training institutions in their respective countries and that most of the existing ones were not of good quality. They also indicated that the travel and tourism industry did not command su$cient respect and support from their governments and political institutions.

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