Analysis of tourism and hospitality sustainability education with co-competition creativity course planning

Recently, with the increasing awareness of the importance of environmental protection, a critical need for tourism and hospitality education on sustainability has been widely recognized. This study adapts a pedagogical co-competition strategy, creative problem solving (CPS) and Abbreviated Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking for accurately measures creativity to predict the influences of the learning environment. Questionnaires were collected, with 196 effective anonymous responses from tourism and hospitality students. The results show that co-competition course design may encourage students' critical thinking regarding sustainability and increase student creativity, which should be promoted as a useful tool in sustainability education in the future.