Tourism education in Sweden: Past, Present and Future

This article will describe how tourism education was started in Sweden for about 33 years ago, at university level. The article gives some hints about how three dedicated young teachers take the same initiatives at different colleges more or less at the same time. It is description of how the established university society looked at this new and odd subject - tourism, but also how the Swedish university system changed a lot and became a much more modern and streamlined one. The article ends up with some desires like what Swedish tourism programs in the near future need, is increased funding for research and more international contacts and collaboration with other teachers and students! Copyright (C) 2012 JAEBR