Kasmita
Tourism and Hospitality Faculty, Universitas Negeri Padang kasmita70@yahoo.co.id
ABSTRACT
Opportunities to work in the tourism industry are broad enough, but not all can be filled by workers who come from vocational education institutions. Some important positions are still being held by foreign workers, this is because things, such as ability and work experience is still low, and the limitations of language makes them difficult to compete. Condition of vocational education as a form of education, require attention to improve the capabilities and competitiveness. It is caused by various problems perceived by vocational education institutions are still not develop optimally. Vocational education has not been able to fill the job opportunities available both in the business world as well as the ability to be independent. Some thought needs to be speeding the development of vocational education in the country. This paper is the result of several articles, and data relevant to the issues raised.
Keywords: labor, tourism