https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/135968 2026-04-26T21:58:06Z 2026-04-26T21:58:06Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136172 2025-06-05T11:48:18Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Do tourists who visit Malta expect traditional local food tasting to be included in guided tours, or is it just a nice add on? Abstract: The concept of ‘food, or culinary, tourism’, defined by the World Food Travel Association as “the act of travelling for a taste of place in order to get a sense of place” (www. worldfoodtravel.org) is undoubtedly a growing part of the global tourism story. This was echoed by Carmina Fandos Herrera, a senior lecturer in marketing at the University of Zaragoza, in the UNWTO Global report on Food Tourism, when she said that ‘Gastronomic tourism is an emerging phenomenon that is being developed as a new tourism product due, inter alia, to the fact that according to the specialized literature (among others, Quan and Wang, 2004) over a third of tourist spending is devoted to food. Therefore, the cuisine of the destination is an aspect of utmost importance in the quality of the holiday experience“. [excerpt]

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136134 2025-06-04T13:39:16Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ITS lecturer creates mobile app to teach about cocktails Abstract: How do you respond as an educator to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic when your practical classes are cancelled and you can only meet them online? A game may not be the first thing that comes to mind, compared to the traditional online meeting, online forum, and using a Virtual Learning Environment. ITS lecturer Richard Pons came up with the idea of creating an educational game based on rummy to train his students in the recall of cocktail ingredients and recipes. Within a few weeks of brainstorming, development and testing, the game Bevicuious rummy was born and made available as an app for Android. [excerpt]

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136115 2025-06-04T12:15:20Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: A sense of place : photography tour in Malta Abstract: Although a “Sense of Place” has different meanings to different people, it can easily be explored in a photography tour. The researcher was looking to bridge the gap between intangible feelings by turning them into the tangible expression of photography. In the “Sense of Place Photography Tour”, the group will learn how to identify a location in such a way that they connect with it in an individually meaningful way. The researcher set out to explain a number of techniques taking approximately 20 to 30 minutes and subsequently, showing the group a standard way of shooting to simplify this process. Over the next four hours, the researcher would spend individual time with each member of the group slowly revealing technical pointers and reaffirming techniques via repetitive methods and positive reinforcement. [excerpt]

2022-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/136114 2025-06-04T12:11:49Z 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Characteristics of quality assurance from the viewpoint of hospitality and tourism education Abstract: Good quality assurance practices within a culture of continuous evolving educational system are currently playing an important part more than ever. Students are observing and understanding the role of quality assurance as an improvement process which will eventually benefit them. To be able to value what they are learning, students need to verify important factors within their learning environment. These factors vary from lecturers’ professionalism, diversity of lecturing aids, different assessment styles used for their work, and opportunities that are awaiting in the future when they graduate from the same educational institution where they are currently studying. Learning ethos are a true example of what quality assurance can lead to within an educational institution from a student’s perspective. For students, learning ethos are all those factors which are related to the input they are giving their respective programme of study.

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