The Relationship between Green Education and the Sustainability of Students' Skills in the Tourism Higher Institutes

Green Education plays a central role in shaping the transformation students’ skills towards sustainability. Education for sustainable development is an educational vision to balance human and economic well-being with cultural traditions and reverence for the Earth’s natural resources. So, this research aimed to reflect the principles of sustainability into educational practices, guiding the choices of the appropriate learning objectives, updated teaching content, and learning methods which highlights the importance of green education for tourism students. This paper aimed also to study the benefits and challengers of green education in tourism higher institutes.
It is increasingly clear that education & skills, attitudes and behaviour are crucial for sustainable & inclusive growth in developing countries. So this research determined that there are 3 types of students’ skills to go green; the first is general sustainability knowledge, mainly in the soft skills, awareness and action competence. The second skill includes occupation skills specifically in social science, computer technology……. and so on, while the third skill includes leadership and management skills aimed at green transition. Many of these skills exist and are transferable, but need to be further strengthened and supplemented with green notions and practices.
Quantitative data were accumulated through online questionnaire formed in multiple choice survey questions which analysed to report descriptive statistics about the research sample. The research results indicated that there is a positive relationship between green education and the sustainability of students' skills. On the other hand, this paper showed that the conventional education is no longer suitable for nowadays, so inculcating education in graduates for building their professions as better decision makers in Green education will be more beneficial in future.