Introduction to Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College

The college has six departments and one department, namely, Department of Travel Agency Management, Department of Hotel Management, Department of Foreign Languages, Department of Tourism Planning, Department of Modern Information, Department of Tourism Art and Department of Basics. ***There are 13 majors in tour guide, hotel management, tourism management, tourism English, tourism Japanese, applied French, applied Korean, applied Russian, applied German, tour guide (Spanish), flight attendant, modern logistics, and travel agency management. Among them, tour guide, hotel management major, tourism English, and minor language major have become the leading majors in the province; the college is the training base for key teachers of tourism majors in secondary vocational schools in Shanxi Province.

The college has built four teaching and training centers on campus, including 36 training venues, including six operational venues, including college hotels, water bars, supermarkets, student travel agencies, and advertising production. companies, etc., all planned, organized and run by students. In accordance with the actual needs of travel agency and hotel positions, the training venue has teachers on special subjects such as "Buddhist Grottoes", "Ancient Architecture", "Ming and Qing Streets", "Root Culture", and "Foreign Language Situations", ensuring that teaching and practical positions are guaranteed consistency. Among them, the "Hotel Training Center" and "Tourism Management Training Center" are the practical teaching demonstration bases for higher vocational colleges in Shanxi Province, and the "Tourism Management Training Center" is also a professional construction project supported by the central finance. The college organizes two field trainings for students every year, namely in Mount Wutai and Pingyao. We organize holiday tour guide classes for 150-200 people every year, and adopt the method of "teacher training, corporate expert training, field training, and on-the-job practice" to prepare some students for employment.

The college has established 186 off-campus internship bases with 35 regions and cities in China. At the same time, it actively explores international cooperative education and foreign school-enterprise cooperation, absorbs international advanced educational concepts and utilizes advanced foreign educational resources. . The college has successively established cooperative relationships with industries, enterprises, and institutions in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico, the United States, Germany, and other countries for internship training and further study. In 2007, it exchanged international students with a Korean university for the first time.

The college makes full use of social resources to help students combine the study of professional skills with the development of service tourism during their studies. At the first and second Taiyuan Coal Expo, the excellent quality of our students was highly praised by the organizing committee; in the Taiyuan 2008 BMX International BMX Competition, our students provided volunteer services in minor languages ??to the athletes and were well received by the participants. Well received by people from all walks of life.

Our college pays close attention to the training and assessment of basic skills. Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College strives to go beyond the teaching standards to conduct school-based curriculum research, organizes teachers to conduct on-site special research, collects the latest information on disciplines and industries, and compiles 15 courses that are in line with the school Practical teaching materials that are practical for students and meet the needs of the tourism industry in our province. A vocational teaching structure with application, practicality and creativity as the main characteristics and a vocational teaching model of academic qualifications plus certificates, learning plus practical training, knowledge plus skills have been built to strengthen the quality of students.

Since its establishment, the college has adhered to the service-oriented and employment-oriented higher vocational education philosophy and the school-running ideas of high-standard training, high-standard training, and high-quality employment, in line with the rapid development of the tourism industry. In a good situation, the connotation construction of the college has been continuously strengthened, and the effectiveness of running the school has been recognized by the industry and society. In the 2006 Provincial Tour Guide Competition held every four years in the province, the teachers and students of our college stood out from 8,000 contestants and won the first and second place; in the same year, in the provincial tour guide qualification certificate examination participated by more than 50 colleges and universities, we won The college ranked first; in 2007, our college students participated in the province's English speaking competition and won the first prize; in 2008, the college students participated in the Shanxi Provincial Higher Vocational College Computer Grade Examination and won the third place in the province. All graduates in the past three years have been arranged for internships and recommended for employment by the college, and the employment rate is 100%. "China Tourism News", "China Education News", "China Vocational Education", "Shanxi Workers' News", "Taiyuan Daily" and other media have made special reports on the talent training of our hospital.