The onset of the social distancing during the pandemic and the shift from face-to-face to digital teaching and learning prompted researches to study the adaptation and change process of tourism education.The paper aims at identifying the students' views on the learning experience in the context of virtual education environment.A survey was conducted among undergraduate and master students at the Faculty of Business and Tourism, Bucharest University of Economic Studies.The questionnaire was streamlined along three major themes: education competencies, communication and interaction, and impact on the future professional career.Based on the feedback of 269 sampled students, the findings point to: 1) high level of involvement and motivation supported by the availability of digital technologies and students' computer skills; 2) enhanced interaction and team working; 3) varying content engagement along disciplines and lecture/seminar classes; 4) relative loss of creativity in the absence of real-life inter-relations.We found that the self-identification of students with the 'online generation' is strong, yet controversial due to both positive and negative emotions.Overall, we notice the mixed effects of the online education on students' personality, life style and learning.Finally, our paper demonstrates that the integration of online educational tools requires curriculum updates and improvements of teaching methods to meet students' expectations.
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