Leisure travel education

Abstract

In the 21st century, people from different walks of life, class and country will be roaming every part of the world. The global industry is expected to employ 338 million people reaching $7.2 trillion in revenues. The sooner education encourages students to understand how the industry is creating new ventures and catering for new travel needs, the better prepared they will be as young and older tourists themselves. The introduction of leisure travel education across the curriculum should help students penetrate and read the mechanism of the travel industry. If primary education seeks to improve rather than reproduce society, then leisure travel education should equip children to assume responsibilities for world citizemy and prepare them to understand that they should not be simply directed by external forces to the extent that they get carried away by the currents of fashion and convenience. Moreover, the pedagogy most conducive to leisure travel education is that which enables the student in a sense to use his/her own brains, not somebody else's. To live rather than exist.