IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/reroxx/v36y2023i2p2129410.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Career barriers of hospitality and tourism management students and the impacts on their career intention

Author

Listed:
  • Fajian Liu
  • Fangqi Zhang
  • Nan Wu
  • Nallo Keifalla James

Abstract

This study constructs a three-dimensions of perceived career barriers (CB) of hospitality and tourism management (HTM) students, namely personal, social and interactional career barriers, and explores their impacts on students’ professional identity and intention to work in hospitality and tourism (H&T) industry. The findings based on a sample of 842 HTM students in mainland China are as follows. Firstly, the three-dimensions model could reveal the structure of HTM students’ perceived career barriers and all dimensions have significantly negative effects on professional identity and career intention. Meanwhile, the predictive power of personal career barriers is strongest, interactional and social barriers followed. Secondly, students’ professional identity plays a role as a mediator between career barriers and intention. Lastly, the barriers could be negotiated by major satisfaction, as it moderates the relationship of career barriers to intention partially. Managerial implications are also discussed for tourism industries and educators.

Suggested Citation

  • Fajian Liu & Fangqi Zhang & Nan Wu & Nallo Keifalla James, 2023. "Career barriers of hospitality and tourism management students and the impacts on their career intention," Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(2), pages 2129410-212, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:36:y:2023:i:2:p:2129410
    DOI: 10.1080/1331677X.2022.2129410
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2129410
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/1331677X.2022.2129410?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:reroxx:v:36:y:2023:i:2:p:2129410. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/rero .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.