A chapter from the HEA's publication Enhancing education for sustainable development in Business and Management Hospitality Leisure Marketing Tourism.
This chapter describes how European Union (EU) funding through Erasmus Intensive Programmes can be used to enhance the education of sustainable tourism management. It will describe how the mobility afforded to staff and students through the EU grant has allowed students to meet and engage with various stakeholders in tourist destinations in order for them to gain experience of adapting and applying the theory of sustainable tourism development to real world settings.