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changes in pedagogy (Jamal et al., 2011) and,
curricular content and design.
As a result, sustainability occupies a prime
place among the topics of concern in tourism
academia, and beyond (Bramwell and Lane,
2014). The Building Excellence for
Sustainable Tourism Education Network
(BEST EN), discussed by Moscardo (2015) in
this SV has been part of this movement to
transform tourism education both in and
beyond the higher education sector. BEST EN
activities are focused on supporting better
thinking about tourism and sustainability
across all stakeholders and on supporting
transformative change in tourism. An
upcoming volume on education for
sustainability in tourism (Moscardo and
Benckendorff, in press) has extended this
mandate beyond what is needed to change
tourism to include a discussion of how tourism
itself might contribute to the education of
people about sustainability in general.
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