Differences between Tourism Sociology and Tourism Management

The difference between tourism sociology and tourism management;

1. Tourism is a science with the widest scope of academic research and some tourism-related problems, while tourism management is a specialty, which is bound to be narrower than tourism. The former does not necessarily exist, the latter exists, and the former definitely exists.

2. Tourism sociology is a new discipline, which starts with tourism and studies the conditions and mechanisms for the benign operation and coordinated development of its various components by using sociological theories such as social holism and social interaction. It tries to study tourism phenomena, relations, behaviors and laws from micro and macro perspectives, so as to solve the problems encountered in the development of tourism, realize the sustainable development of tourism and promote the improvement and improvement of the whole human survival and development environment.

3. Tourism management is an undergraduate major in colleges and universities. This major trains senior professionals who meet the needs of the market economy and the development of tourism at home and abroad, have the knowledge and ability of economics, management, administration and related disciplines, master the theoretical knowledge and methods of tourism management, have the ability to develop practical problems of tourism, and can engage in the research of hotel management, travel agency management and tourism management disciplines in tourism administrative departments and enterprises at all levels. Students mainly study the basic theory and knowledge of tourism management, highlight the mastery of the subject system of tourism resource development and planning, and accept the basic training of tourism management and tourism resource planning and development, and have good scientific literacy and basic skills of resource development and planning management.