Development of Higher Tourism Education in China.doc

Development of Higher Tourism Education in China Abstract: By analyzing the status of China’s Tourism higher education in the discipline, the market needs, training objectives, curriculum, teaching staff and student employment problems, the proposed tourism authorities to increase support for tourism education, tourism institutions in order to market demand oriented, clear training objectives, improve quality of teachers to change teaching methods, colleges, enterprises and the establishment of Accelerated Degree’s training model.  Keywords:: tourism; higher education; problems; countermeasure  One of China’s tourism problems in higher education  1.1 Travel and Tourism’s subordination  A few years ago, the State Council Academic Degrees Committee and the Ministry of Education, graduate and undergraduate students of our discipline professional directories have been adjusted only in the management category (No. 12), the Business Administration Discipline 1 (No. 1202), the set up tourism management of two subjects (No. 120,203). This is the only higher education, a travel professional. As we all know, tourism is an integrated industry, involving food, shelter, transportation, travel, shopping and entertainment on six aspects; Travel discipline system is a multi-disciplinary, multi-level system of academic disciplines, including management disciplines, Economics, Geography Subject literary subjects, planning disciplines and other disciplines. Therefore, China’s Ministry of Education Travel and Tourism simply as a two disciplines greatly limited the development of tourism education. Disciplines, such an arrangement, making university tourism management a “small and complete” situation, courses in all aspects related to tourism, but only superficial. Making tourism a real sense of higher education “big and empty.”  1.2 out of market demand for tourism education  In recent years, the rapid development of tourism, making tourism in the national economy a