Perception of Students of the Degree in Tourism Regarding the Importance of a Foreign Language: English

EasyChair Preprint 8065

Abstract

Being the most widely used global language, English has been exerting a tremen-dous influence around the world in various spheres of our lives. These comprise, among others, travel, tourism, and hospitality industry, in all of which the use of English has become an imperative need. With its ever-growing importance, the role of English in travel, tourism and hospitality industry has been assuming greater significance, and also undergoing some functional changes. This work aims to present the main results, of a quantitative nature, after ap-plying a questionnaire survey, carried out among students of the Degree in Tour-ism, in a Portuguese private higher education institution, to ascertain their percep-tion of the importance of the English language in the Tourism sector. From the data collection carried out with 32 students, it was possible to assess there is still a way to go for these students, future professionals, to feel secure in the proficient use of the English language

Keyphrases: English language, Tourism, perception, students, worldwide

@booklet{EasyChair:8065,
  author    = {Sónia Leite and Isabel Borges and Eusébio Costa and Fátima Matos Silva and Stéphanie Mota},
  title     = {Perception of Students of the Degree in Tourism Regarding the Importance of a Foreign Language: English},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 8065},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2022}}