The Development of a Short-Term Vocational Training Course in Tourism Industry for Students Tourism Learning Cente

Abstract

This research is concerned with investigating the integration of quantitative and qualitative data in mixed methods research with four objectives as 1) to study the development of the career of learner's skills by taking a short course training in the field of tourism industry, 2) to develop the short-term vocational training courses in tourism industry, 3) to study the learner's satisfaction toward to short-term vocational training courses and 4) to create the guideline of the development of the short-term vocational training courses in tourism industry as case study for students and lecturers, 163 peoples totally by launching a questionnaire, and 20 peoples from high executive administration ranking by interview. Research results indicated that most of trainees would like to develop their career skills especially in the tourism industry such as cooking skills, snacks and beverage making skills, English skills, and information technology skills accordingly. The development of short-term vocational training course will consist of the training course principle, objective, structure and content. The training course activity, learning media channels, and course evaluation must be verified and get approval by the professional to test the course before officially open. It should be consist of six curriculum courses as cooking skills, baking skills, food and beverage service skills, five colors steamed bun making skills, English for communication skills, and information technology skills, etc. Most of trainees were satisfied with the training at a high level 12-hour learning per course which 6 hours for theoretical learning and 6 hours for practical training. To create the guideline of the development of the short-term vocational training courses in services industry consist of four mainly procedure as 1) do the research and study the cause problem and the needful, 2) design the training course by following the objective of the course curriculum such as the course principle, objective, structure and content, teaching media and course evaluation, 3) the training course must get the approval from the expert professor before officially open to public, 4) Try the training course and assess the satisfaction of the participants after the training, and 5) the training course must keep developing for the content and language using and must be printed as completely official curriculum for short-term vocational training course for officially using to the public as well.