Gap Analysis on the Competency of Indonesian Tourism Workers in the ASEAN Economic Community
- DOI
- 10.2991/atf-16.2016.54How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- ASEAN Economic Community, tourism workers, labour mobility, competency, gap analysis
- Abstract
Tourism is one of eight professions that are prioritized to be integrated in the framework of ASEAN Economic Community. Among the prioritized professions, tourism has led in producing detail arrangements of mutual recognition agreement in the sector, including by setting ASEAN Common Competence Standards for Tourism Professionals (ACCSTP) and Common ASEAN Tourism Curriculum (CATC). It means the mobility of tourism workers or professionals in the regional labour market may be realized faster than other professions. However, there is a considerable concern over the quality of Indonesian human resources in tourism that may hinder benefits offered by the opening of the regional labour market. This paper investigates potential gaps between standard competencies of AEC and competencies of Indonesian tourism workers. Through a survey conducted in Greater Jakarta, this study found no significant gap between the two. This paper argues the low gap may be due to majority respondents are trained in schools of tourism located in urban, big cities which enjoy quality curriculum and trainers. Nevertheless, the paper encourages a full adoption of regional qualification standards to guarantee the skills recognition of the Indonesian tourism workers in the region.
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- © 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - George Sirait AU - Nyoman Pinia PY - 2016/05 DA - 2016/05 TI - Gap Analysis on the Competency of Indonesian Tourism Workers in the ASEAN Economic Community BT - Proceedings of the Asia Tourism Forum 2016 - the 12th Biennial Conference of Hospitality and Tourism Industry in Asia PB - Atlantis Press SP - 368 EP - 374 SN - 2352-5428 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/atf-16.2016.54 DO - 10.2991/atf-16.2016.54 ID - Sirait2016/05 ER -