What will the Entrepreneurial Students of Tourism and Hotels Intent to do After Graduation: Self-Employment or Green Entrepreneurship

Abstract

This research aims to study the impact of entrepreneurship education on the tourism and hotel students’ entrepreneurial attitude in Egypt after graduation and study the mediating role of the entrepreneurial attitude between entrepreneurship education and self-employment intention. In addition to, study the mediating role of entrepreneurial attitude between entrepreneurship education and green entrepreneurship intention. A questionnaire was designed and distributed to a random sample of students in faculties and institutes of tourism and hotels in Egypt to achieve the study objectives. 434 valid responses for statistical analysis were analyzed using AMOS V.24 program to extract the study results. The results of the study concluded that there is a positive effect of entrepreneurship education on self-employment intention as well as on green entrepreneurship intention. The results also demonstrated that entrepreneurial attitude plays a mediating role in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and self-employment intention, as well as in the relationship between entrepreneurship education and green entrepreneurship intention. The study revealed that tourism and hotel graduates in Egypt without an entrepreneurial attitude tend to self-employment. In contrast, tourism and hotel graduates who have an entrepreneurial attitude tend more to green entrepreneurship. This study presents a theoretical and practical contribution to tourism and hotel education.

Keywords: Entrepreneurship Education, Entrepreneurial Attitude, Self-Employment Intention, Green Entrepreneurship Intention, Tourism and Hotels Students

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