The acquisition of Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurship skills using the indirect teaching method

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to disseminate the results of the indirect teaching method, as a form of training for the development and acquisition of a high number (27) of Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurship skills, in order to demonstrate that it also serves to: i) evaluate the learning; ii) measure the teaching-learning relationship with the students' future professional activity.

We used the qualitative methodology of the content analysis of answers to several open questions, posed to 100 students of Entrepreneurship, from the Polytechnic Porto School of Hotel and Tourism.

The results demonstrate that the indirect teaching method, that is, learning by guided discovery in simulation environments, applied in the teaching of Entrepreneurship, through 23 different activities, developed in 40 hours of simulation, allows the training for the development and acquisition. of 27 competencies.

We conclude that this indirect teaching method allows training for the development and acquisition of 27 Hotel and Tourism Entrepreneurship skills and also serves to: i) immediately evaluate learning outcomes; ii) demonstrate that students' potential entrepreneurial capacity goes far beyond the professional activity induced by the name of the course they attend.

We conclude that this indirect method of teaching allows us to acquire 27 Entrepreneurship skills in Hospitality and Tourism and also serves to: i) evaluate the results of learning immediately; ii) Demonstrate that the potential entrepreneurial capacity of the students goes far beyond the professional activity induced by the name of the course they attend; iii) Demonstrate that the potential entrepreneurial capacity is correlated with the number of different curricular units attended.