Professional Characteristics of School of Tourism Management, Tianjin University of Commerce

At the beginning of the establishment of this major, we formed an educational delegation to go to the United States, made a serious investigation on the famous American tourism universities, and learned from their advanced school-running model. We cooperated with three famous tourist universities, such as new york State University, designed the training scheme of this major, hired their experts and scholars as professional teachers, and sent professional teachers to the United States for further study. Introduce the original American textbooks and organize teachers to compile relevant textbooks. The first set of unified teaching materials for hotel management major in China universities was published, which was widely used in universities all over the country.

As a characteristic major of Tianjin University of Commerce, tourism management plays an important role in the overall development planning and professional structure adjustment of the college. Our aim of running a school is to aim at the market demand and cultivate students' ability to solve problems. In order to understand the market, in addition to maintaining close contact with domestic industry authorities and tourism enterprises, we also sent three groups of personnel to Canada, the United States, Switzerland, Germany, France, the Netherlands and other countries to inspect the teaching and management of foreign tourism markets and tourism colleges, so as to help us run schools more in line with the needs of the international market. On June 65438+ 10/day, 2004, the School of Tourism Management of Tianjin University of Commerce was formally established.

The level of teachers majoring in tourism management in Tianjin University of Commerce is very high among similar institutions in China. Most teachers are double-qualified. In addition to having high academic qualifications and professional titles, some of them go abroad for further study and study, and most of them have social part-time jobs, such as serving as national judges, appraisers and hotel general managers in the industry. In addition to completing the teaching tasks of this subject, the teachers of this department have presided over and participated in more than 20 scientific research projects entrusted by the state, provincial and ministerial levels and their enterprises, edited and participated in more than 50 monographs, teaching materials and teaching reference books, and published hundreds of academic papers, which has a certain influence in national tourism universities.