The Teaching Tourism Walking Workshop (TeToWaWo) is a series of one-day walking workshops that will be held in various parts of Japan in 2025. Each workshop is intended for ‘local’ participants and will repeat the same theme in different places. Their focus is on exploring multimodal activities and assessments used in Japanese learning environments. The workshops offer participants immersive and embodied experiences where sharing of good practices takes centre stage. 

TeToWaWo follows in the footsteps of TeToWaCo 2024 (held in Sapporo) which focussed on values-based tourism education, emphasising the importance of personal growth amongst learners in higher education. The conference last year introduced also the importance of incorporating ways for learners to develop their multiliteracies through innovative educational environments. These are topics that we now plan to expand upon – asking participants to share and reflect upon both successful and unsuccessful attempts at breaking away from a teacher focused classroom style, to more actively engaged learning events.