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Design-Based Learning in Hospitality Education

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This book offers a practical guide for educators and industry partners on how to implement DBL in practice, while supporting collaboration between education and the hospitality industry. By sharing...
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  • 13 October 2026
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Focuses on the future of Design-Based Learning in hospitality education, delivering theoretical depth and practical utility

This book presents insights and lessons learned from implementing Design-Based Learning (DBL) within hospitality management education. It offers a practical guide on how to design and implement DBL in educational practice, while supporting meaningful collaboration between education and the hospitality industry. Including perspectives from students, educators and industry practitioners, the chapters highlight DBL in action across the full curriculum from first first-year bachelor to the master’s level using real-life design challenges as the foundation for learning, designing and research. By sharing collective experiences from a university applying DBL across its entire hospitality programme, the book provides a unique, hands-on exploration of how DBL can shape the future of hospitality education.

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Price: $179.95
Pages: 274
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Imprint: Channel View Publications
Publication Date: 13 October 2026
Trim Size: 9.20 X 6.15 in
ISBN: 9781836460152
Format: Hardcover
BISACs: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Future Studies, TRAVEL / Food, Lodging & Transportation / Hotels, Inns & Hostels, EDUCATION / Adult & Continuing Education, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Higher, Hotel, hospitality and catering trades, Higher education, tertiary education, Social forecasting, future studies
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A timely and rigorously grounded contribution to hospitality education through Design-Based Learning as a transformative, practice-integrated pedagogy to bridge theory, industry engagement, and curriculum design. The book provides a compelling roadmap for developing future-ready professionals equipped to navigate complexity, co-create value, and drive innovation in today's dynamic world.

This book makes Design-Based Learning tangible. It offers hospitality educators a thoughtful, research-informed and highly practical account of how students, educators and industry partners can learn, design and inquire together. Its strength lies in showing not only what DBL is, but how it can be lived, sustained and improved.

Hanneke Assen is Professor of International Hospitality Education at the Academy of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands.

Laura Velten is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Academy of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality at NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands.

Marte Rinck de Boer is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Academy of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality at NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands.

Macmillion Braz Fernandes is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Academy of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality at NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands.

Mandy (Xiaomin) Wen is a Lecturer and Researcher at the Academy of Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality at NHL Stenden University of Applied Science, the Netherlands.

Foreword. Directors Leisure, Tourism and Hospitality Management

Foreword. Student

Foreword. Educator 

Foreword. Hospitality Practitioner 

Introduction. Moving to Design Based Learning in Hospitality Education

Section 1: Your First Steps in Design Based Learning

Chapter 1. Knowing the Why -The Foundation of the Design Based Learning Curriculum

Chapter 2. Knowing the Design – Design Principles for Building a Design Based Learning Curriculum

Chapter 3. Knowing the Where - The Components of a Rich Design Based Learning Environment

Chapter 4. Knowing the How - Tools and Activities to Stimulate Learning Processes in Design Based Learning

Chapter 5. Knowing How to Assess – A Mirror for Lifelong Learning

Section 2: Your Next Steps in Design Based Learning

Chapter 6. Knowing with Whom - Crossing Boundaries between Hospitality Education and Industry

Chapter 7. Knowing How to Facilitate Design Based Learning - Roles, Tasks and Activities of partners-in learning

Chapter 8. Knowing How to Support Educators in Design Based Learning –Design Based Learning Study

Chapter 9. Knowing How to Set up a Design Based Learning Team – the DBL Team model

Section 3: Our Showcases: Design Based Learning in Action

Chapter 10. Getting Started with Design Based Learning - A Case from the Foundation Phase

Chapter 11. Creating Your Own Design Challenge - A Case from the Main Phase

Chapter 12. Designing in Hospitality - A Case from the Main Phase

Chapter 13. An Alternative Approach to Design Based Learning - A Case from a Minor Study ‘About Hostmanship’    

Chapter 14. Designing a Service Experience - A Case from a Master of Arts

Section 4: Looking Ahead – The Future Possibilities in Hospitality Education

Chapter 15. Roadmap for Scaling and Sustaining Design Based Learning