Research Into The Bilingual Teaching In Higher Tourism Education

In The 21st century, as the Internet, high technology, the rapid development of economic globalization as well as China becomes a full member of WTO members, tourism professionals will increasingly fierce market competition. Market demand for qualified personnel in the tourism, will be transformed into not only professional knowledge and proficiency in Chinese language and culture, but also proficient in foreign languages, and are familiar with foreign cultures, understanding of the international market operation rules, a new international competition to bilingual personnel. As a high-quality tourism personnel training bases - Tourism higher education, we welcome the opportunity, we are also facing an enormous challenge. Against this background, "bilingual" Teaching resulting, in 2001 the Ministry of National Education's《On the strengthening of Undergraduate Education to improve the quality of teaching in a number of views》,the explicit requirements of the colleges and universities in three years opened 5 % -10% of the "bilingual" education courses and the introduction of the original materials and raising the quality of teachers. The reaches about Construction of model of bilingual teaching in Tourism Higher Education become one of the issues of greatest concern to tourism education. However, due to the implementation of China's bilingual teaching in Tourism Higher Education has a relatively short time, the studies of bilingual teaching are in the exploratory stage also. And bilingual teaching is one related to the contents of teaching, teaching Model, curriculum, teacher training, building materials, teaching assessment of the complex and systematic project. Therefore, tourism higher education in the process of implementation of bilingual teaching it is necessary to sum up experiences and lessons, but also to resolve existing problems.In this paper, the author from a certain point of view about theoretical and practical understanding of the operation, and then with which the background of the times, and China's basic national conditions, from a number of the basic theory of bilingual teaching. Expounded related concepts (bilingual, and bilingual education, bilingual teaching), as well as bilingual education model (immersion program, maintenance bilingual education, and transitional bilingual education), in order to The balance theory,Think tank model,The thresholds theory,Interdependent hypothesis as a reference, with the relevant theoretical knowledge and practical results, analysis of the Tourism Higher Education to the need for bilingual education and the implementation of the status quo, based on this to construct bilingual teaching model to meet the characteristics of China's higher tourism education and the development needs of tourism industry and probe into the implementation of the bilingual teaching strategies, in order to offer some experiences and references for the development of China's Tourism Higher Education bilingual Teaching.