Teaching environmental sustainability and responsibility in the Anthropocene: Overview of Tourism Studies in Spain

"This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism on 2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15313220.2020.1797610." [EN] Tourism studies are showing an increasing interest in the analysis of environmental sustainability and responsibility in the Anthropocene epoch. In the Higher Education (HE) Tourism studies, new concepts and skills are incorporated helping students to develop environmental knowledge and responsible attitudes and behaviours grounded in closer associations between the Earth systems and Humanity. The aim of this study is to examine the extent to which environmental education is incorporated in the curricula of Tourism studies at 55 Spanish universities throughout a syllabus content analysis. The results evidence that HE Tourism studies in Spain has a generalist orientation because of the holistic vision inherent to that courses, whereas matters regarding environmental issues would be necessary to organise in a more coherent way in the form of specialised training tracks devoted to environmental education including both sustainability and responsibility issues. The authors of this paper wish to thank José Carlos García-Rosell and Emily Höckert of Lapland University and the two anonymous reviewers for their critical comments of this study and their insightful advice and suggestions. Teruel Serrano, MD.; Viñals Blasco, MJ. (2020). Teaching environmental sustainability and responsibility in the Anthropocene: Overview of Tourism Studies in Spain. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism (Online). 20(3):216-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/15313220.2020.1797610 Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) (2005). Libro blanco del Título en Grado en Turismo. http://www.aneca.es/var/media/359791/libroblanco_turismo_03.pdf (Retrieved: May 2019). Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación (ANECA) (2019). Registro de Universidades, Centros y Títulos (RUCT). https://www.educacion.gob.es/ruct/consultaestudios.action?actual=estudios (Retrieved: September 2019). Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación Boissevain, J. (1996). Coping with Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism. Berghahn Books, 264 pp Boyle, A., Wilson, E., & Dimmock, K. (2015). Transformative Education and Sustainable Tourism: The Influence of a Lecturer’s Worldview. Journal of Teaching in Travel & Tourism, 15(3), 252-263. doi:10.1080