Are the tuning meda generic competences useful for tourism graduates in Bethlehem-Palestine?

Abstract EN

This study aimed at measuring the usefulness of the Tuning meda generic competencies for the tourism graduate in the city of Bethlehem in Palestine.

To understand this relation, this paper mainly tried to figure out whether these competences affect the employers’ choice of the employees.

Two questionnaires were designed to understand the view point of the employers regarding these competences.

The first one was designed to arrange the competencies from the most important to the least important, the second one aimed to know how important these competencies are for the applicants’ to be offered a job in hotels in Bethlehem and was used to examine the hypothesis and answer the study’s questions.

50 questionnaires were distributed; the result showed that the top five competences are: communicate orally and in writing with different audience, identify and resolve problems, work in an interdisciplinary team, communicate in a second language, be self motivated.

Employers in hotels show their well to hire applicants with some or all T-meda generic competences as they see these competences a key element if providing a better service for the customers.