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Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills in Tourism: Anything Else?

Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills in Tourism: Anything Else?

Andreia Antunes Moura, Maria do Rosário Campos Mira, Vânia Natércia Costa
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 32
ISBN13: 9781799843184|ISBN10: 1799843181|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781799854869|EISBN13: 9781799843191
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch003
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Moura, Andreia Antunes, et al. "Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills in Tourism: Anything Else?." Handbook of Research on Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry, edited by Vânia Gonçalves Costa, et al., IGI Global, 2021, pp. 41-72. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch003

APA

Moura, A. A., Mira, M. D., & Costa, V. N. (2021). Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills in Tourism: Anything Else?. In V. Costa, A. Moura, & M. Mira (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry (pp. 41-72). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch003

Chicago

Moura, Andreia Antunes, Maria do Rosário Campos Mira, and Vânia Natércia Costa. "Soft Skills vs. Hard Skills in Tourism: Anything Else?." In Handbook of Research on Human Capital and People Management in the Tourism Industry, edited by Vânia Gonçalves Costa, Andreia Antunes Moura, and Maria do Rosário Mira, 41-72. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2021. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-4318-4.ch003

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Abstract

This chapter presents a qualitative study, resulting from a systematic literature review using a text analysis technique through the NVivo software, version 10.0. This technique involves grouping words that reveal semantic similarity to each other and results indicate that considerations around soft and hard skills in tourism have been different over time. In short, it might be said that it is hard skills that lead people to job interviews, but it is soft skills that allow them to be recruited for employment. Hence, it is the combination of the two skill types that enables people to have a job in the tourism industry, manage a career, and contribute to the differentiation of tourism companies in the tourism global marketplace that tends to be increasingly competitive.

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