What kind of school is Shanghai Tourism College?

Established in 1979, Shanghai Tourism College is the earliest tourism institution of higher learning in China.

School motto: firm and tenacious, United and nervous, observing discipline and paying attention to fashion. The school pays attention to students' all-round quality education, emphasizes political thought, professional ethics education and cultural literacy education, and pays attention to the cultivation of application ability, service consciousness, practice consciousness and labor consciousness. Strictly manage schools, and integrate the civilized norms of tourism industry into tourism education with the concept of "schools are hotels and schools are tourist attractions". According to the Party's educational policy, our school trains students to be high-level applied talents with ideals, morality, culture and discipline, who love China's production party, socialist motherland and tourism, understand China's foreign policy, abide by foreign affairs discipline, master the basic theories, knowledge and skills of tourism business and have a certain foreign language level.

At the beginning of its establishment, the school was located in Dongmen Port, Fengxian, a suburb of Shanghai, covering an area of 2 1 hectare. 1986 is under the dual leadership of Shanghai National Tourism Administration and Shanghai Municipal People's Government. Our school is a tourism college with the most concentrated tourism teachers, the most complete tourism disciplines, the largest scale and the longest history. A considerable number of young and middle-aged teachers in the school have been sent to the United States, Britain, Japan, Switzerland, Australia and other countries for further study, and there are a number of well-known leading figures in the fields of tourism, geography and environment at home and abroad.

In August 2003, with the approval of the Shanghai Municipal People's Government, Shanghai Tourism College was retained as an independent institution, and Shanghai Tourism College and Shanghai Normal University Urban Tourism College were merged and formed, and the operation system of "Shanghai Tourism College" and "Shanghai Normal University Tourism College" was implemented. A school (college) is an educational institution with two names at the same time, of which Shanghai Tourism College is an independent legal person (hereinafter referred to as college).

With the care and support of Shanghai Municipal Party Committee, Municipal Government and Municipal Education Commission, in 2006, a tourism teaching building with an investment of 60 million yuan and a construction area of 25,000 square meters, with teaching facilities and experimental training facilities embodying the international tourism teaching concept and international advanced level, stood in Fengxian Campus of Shanghai Normal University, and the school moved into Fengxian Campus of Shanghai Normal University as a whole. The college adheres to the philosophy of facing the world and relying on the industry, taking the gathering of graduates in the industry and the contribution of scientific research achievements to the industry as the basic goal of running a school, insisting on mutual assistance and cooperation with the industry, and constantly improving the quality and strength of running a school.

The college has Shanghai Tourism Standardization Research Laboratory, Shanghai Tourism Law Research Laboratory, Shanghai Normal University Urban Ecology and Environment Restoration Key Laboratory, Shanghai Normal University Urban Ecology and Environment Research Center, China-Europe Urban Comparative Research Center, Shanghai Normal University Tourism Planning and Development Research Center, China-Korea Tourism Culture Research Institute, computer laboratory, voice laboratory, simulated tour guide laboratory, guest room laboratory, bar laboratory, cooking laboratory, biochemical laboratory, physical geography comprehensive laboratory, geographic information laboratory and environmental engineering laboratory. And signed agreements with dozens of three-star hotels, international and domestic well-known travel agencies, large-scale exhibition companies and other tourism enterprises as the internship base of our college (school). Hongqiao Development Zone has three-star Tianma Hotel and training center. College (school) is the examiner of tourism management, catering management (undergraduate and junior college), hotel management and international tour guide (junior college) in the higher self-study exam. College (school) continuing education (adult education) is the designated school for the qualification certificate training of general manager and department manager of tourist hotels of National Tourism Administration, and also the training base of the World Golden Key Hotel Alliance (China District). The college (school) now has: the college has two doctoral programs in environmental science and the national doctoral program in classical philology; Master programs in physical geography, human geography, environmental science, tourism management direction, subject teaching theory, geography education direction, etc. Bachelor degree in tourism management (travel agency management, tourism leisure management, tourism planning, hotel management, international tour guide, catering management, etc.). ), exhibition economy and management, geographic science (Normal University), geographic information system, resource environment and urban and rural planning and management, environmental engineering, etc. Hotel management, tourism management, tourism English, tourism Japanese, tourism Korean, financial accounting, business administration (e-commerce), exhibition planning and management, cooking and catering management. The college (school) has successively established sister schools and academic exchange relations with famous universities in the United States, Britain, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, Finland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macao. He has held many international tourism and tourism education, cooking culture, international exhibition education and training forums, international tourism forums, and national academic seminars on urban economic geography and micro-location. Extensive international cooperation has been carried out in tourism teaching and scientific research. The college (school) is currently an affiliated member of the World Tourism Organization (WTO), vice chairman of the Executive Committee of UNESCAP Asia-Pacific Tourism Education and Training Institute (APETIT), the only China school member of ICCA, a member of the Executive Committee of Asia-Pacific Education and Training Institute Network (APETIT) and the president of Shanghai Tourism Education Branch. Since its establishment, the college (school) has actively implemented the main strategy of "revitalizing the city through science and education" of the municipal party committee and municipal government, firmly grasped the opportunity of the Shanghai World Expo and the new round of urban development, accelerated the pace of modern service industry construction, relied on the comprehensive development platform of Shanghai Normal University, adhered to the principle of "student-oriented, focusing on undergraduate education, and taking the teaching quality as the lifeline. Relying on the industry, facing the world, innovating teaching and strengthening scientific research, centering on building a highland for undergraduate education in tourism exhibitions, aiming at building a first-class tourism college in China, achieving a high concentration of graduates in the tourism industry, improving the employment rate of graduates, stabilizing the employment rate and the development speed in the industry, and improving the influence of teaching and scientific research achievements on the development of the industry and relevant government decisions, a series of substantive progress has been made in innovating school-running modes and mechanisms, improving school-running level, improving school-running quality, and strengthening the combination of Industry-University-Research to meet the needs of tourism development. Tourism Science is the journal of the university and the source periodical of Citation Index of Chinese Social Sciences. The school library has more than 300,000 books and famous travel magazines at home and abroad. Running a school magazine and tourism science has a certain social impact.

"Create happiness and enjoy happiness"-the mission and goal of people in Tourism College (College)! Jiang Yifan