ENGAGING HIGHSCHOOL STUDENTS TO HOSPITALITY TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION PROGRAM WITH TECHNOLOGY IN HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY ONLINE TRAINING

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Online training in “Technology in hospitality industry” is one of strategy to engage prospect students to Hospitality technology innovation (International program), Suranaree University of Technology, Thailand. This training provided content related to background in technology which is implemented for hospitality industry together with its innovation that academic students learnt. The objectives of this study were to engage high school students and to study the achievement in the training for high school students through online training “Technology in hospitality industry”. Data was collected from questionnaires and pretest/posttest from 100 high school students who are interested in this major field of study. The result found that participants did not only obtained more knowledge, but also abilities to utilize in their daily life. They were understanding and interesting in the curriculum program. Prospect students were highly satisfied for this training. Furthermore, they preferred more activities related to this training which would fulfil their knowledge. Higher educational institute could apply this strategy to engage them to the curriculum program. This was one of the best practices for higher educational institutes to engage prospect students which will be qualified into academic students for the future.