Assessing academic engagement impact of post pandemic on hospitality and tourism education in selected colleges, and Universities of Iloilo

The post-pandemic has far-reaching consequences on every aspect of tourism and hospitality education needs a shift in focus from academic engagement on behavioral, cognitive and social aspects of hospitality and tourism awareness. Post-pandemic forced all teaching and learning activities to shift to online platforms. Tourism and hospitality students transition used to offline learning and online environment with blended learning of theoretical and practical components. A mix method of qualitative and quantitative, descriptive method using mobile based survey and electronic online survey with 145 tourism and hospitality courses participants. Results revealed that on behavioral academic engagement perceived by tourism and hospitality education responded with “Average” (M=2.57, SD=1.14), cognitive engagement “Low” (M=2.90, SD=1.17), and lastly on social- emotional academic engagement showed “Moderately Low” (M=2.49, SD=.71). It reveals that tourism and hospitality education of Iloilo had different effect as to academic engagement during post-pandemic on different modalities used by selected colleges and universities.