MU at TEFI Conference in India
March 04, 2012
MU’s involvement in the international Tourism Education Futures Initiative (TEFI), is taking University President Karl Wöber to Delhi and Jaipur, India to speak at the regional conference entitled ‘’The Future of Tourism Education and Growth of Tourism in Asia-Pacific: Vision, Values and Principles,’’ from March 1st-4th.
At the University of Delhi, Prof. Dr. Wöber will chair the panel on ‘Sustainable Development of Tourism', and in Jaipur he will discuss ‘Implementation of TEFI at the University Level’. Other conference speakers include the distinguished academics and previous lecturers at MU’s Latest Trends seminar series, Daniel Fesenmaier of Temple University and Gianna Moscardo of James Cook University.
Founded in 2007, TEFI seeks to strengthen relationships between the tourism industry and universities engaged in tourism education, and to promote forward-thinking change in the field. The initiative puts focus on the value-based principles of ethics, stewardship, knowledge, professionalism and mutuality in that tourism students can take with them into their future professions.
