Research On The Objectives Of Tourism Education In The Universities In China

Tourism education in the university in China originated in late 1970s. The first tourism college in China was established in 1978. During the past 20 years, particularly in 1990s, it was seen a tremendous and stable development in higher education and vocational education. On the early stage of tourism education in universities, the objectives conduced the curriculum cover all sorts of subjects. Until to date, the mode of tourism education is till teacher-centered, however, most tourism curriculums were originated and developed from the teachers'education background and origin of education institutions. Teaching was based on the needs of the teacher rather than the needs of the employer or employment of the students. That was very common at that time. There are many disadvantages in the practice of education-centered activities, which affect the durable development of tourism education in China. The tourism education in China in the 21st century, aims to develop outstanding talents who acquire abundant knowledge, while skilled at practice and creative in operation. This paper is based on this concept, with the principle of standing firm on reality and looking forward to the future, to look into the situation of China's tourism education in the universities, thus to meet the objective of developing the new talents in tourism industry thought university education.There are six parts in this paper: the first part sets forth the theme of this thesis, explains the practical and theoretical value of the research, criticizes some articles of the relative topics, and brings up the problems that need to be solved. The second part is to look into the theoretical problems in China's tourism education in university, and expound the relative concepts. The third part is to analyze the actuality and problems of tourism education in universities in China. The fourth part overviews the gross background, sorts it out that the high quality education in university is the essential choice of economic globalization and internalization of tourism talents. The following part is the key section of this thesis, making it clear that the objective of China's tourism education in university is to breed"multi-talents", and the new mode to achieve it. The last part is conclusion, restates the main idea of this thesis, and points out the main achievement, creativeness, and shortcoming as well.