Abstract: This paper aims at identifying the learning styles of tourism management
programme students in Greece and the investigation of embedding problembased
learning (PBL) via online activities in the assessment. There is need for
degrees in tourism management programmes that will enable students to think
critically. Tourism education and training is required to adapt to patterns of
change which seem certain to exert a profound influence on future roles and
behaviours, since the vocational aspect of learning and teaching has been
criticised. In order to understand the students’ learning style and behaviour it is
important to develop learning and teaching strategies that enhance the student
experience. The author has used Honey and Mumford’s Learning Style
Questionnaire (LSQ); even though it has been used widely in management
training, very few studies using the LSQ however, have focused on hospitality
and tourism. The results suggest that the students have a preferred style that
poses challenges to lectures in understanding the students’ learning behaviour as well as at developing their teaching strategy. The findings show that students
prefer concrete learning styles, active and occasionally reflective. The author
suggests that an appropriate teaching method is problem-based learning with
the use of online techniques to trigger the students’ interest and give them the
opportunity to reflect and practice the knowledge gained at the course.