Labour Market for Tourism Graduates: comparisons between 2012 – 2018 data

• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Carlos Eduardo
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Medaglia, Juliana, Massukado-Nakatani, Marcia Shizue
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Pesquisa em Turismo
• Texto Completo: https://rbtur.org.br/rbtur/article/view/1779
• topic: Tourism; Higher Education; Labour Market; Turismo; Formación Superior; Egresados, Mercado Laboral; Turismo; Formação Superior; Egressos; Mercado de Trabalho

There has been plentiful debate about tourism education, including a number of work groups in many events. However, there is, on the other hand, little information about the employability of these courses’ graduates. Over time there has been an increasing gap between the interests of trainers and human resources hiring sectors, the former being more concerned with the academic and humanistic building of the undergraduates and the latter focusing on the need for professionals with proper skills acquired during their undergrad period. Focusing on the comparison between the ‘Professional performance of the graduates of higher education courses in tourism’ research in 2012 and 2018, this article discusses the labour market of graduates of higher education in Brazil, in terms of the main activities, sectors of activity and remuneration. It has been based on primary and secondary data, with a more descriptive character and a qualitative approach in the interpretation of the data. Among the main results it is possible to highlight that the tourism sector is not as diverse as taught in the higher education courses, due to the finding that most of the jobs are concentrated in on or few positions. Also, the perception of a discrete improvement in the remuneration, the rise of the participation of professors in the market and the growth of respondents linked to the public sector are among the main findings