ABSTRACT
Currently enrolled tourism students are likely to be occupying jobs in the future that do not even exist today and even more can expect to leave university without any assurance that they will find a job in the field for which they should be qualified. Pointing to the global population increase, and related competition, less dependence on manual labour and the mass-university producing more graduates, Robinson and Aronica (2009: 232) assert that: ‘The plain fact is that a college degree is not worth a fraction of what it once was. A degree was a passport to a good job. Now, at best, it’s a visa. It only gives you provisional residence in the job market.’
