Design-Based Learning in Hospitality Education

This book offers a practical guide for educators and industry partners on how to implement DBL in practice, while supporting collaboration between education and the hospitality industry. By sharing experiences from a university applying DBL across its hospitality programme, it illustrates how DBL can shape the future of hospitality education.

Focuses on the future of Design-Based Learning in hospitality education, delivering theoretical depth and practical utility

This book presents insights and lessons learned from implementing Design-Based Learning (DBL) within hospitality management education. It offers a practical guide on how to design and implement DBL in educational practice, while supporting meaningful collaboration between education and the hospitality industry.

Including perspectives from students, educators and industry practitioners, the chapters highlight DBL in action across the full curriculum from first first-year bachelor to the master’s level using real-life design challenges as the foundation for learning, designing and research.

By sharing collective experiences from a university applying DBL across its entire hospitality programme, the book provides a unique, hands-on exploration of how DBL can shape the future of hospitality education.