What certificates are generally required for tourism management majors?

First of all, I think the poster should have his own clear goals, and he should not blindly follow the trend when doing research. As a primary school student whose major ranks high in the country, I got a tour guide certificate in my sophomore year, and interned in a five-star hotel in my junior year. I have a basic understanding of tourism management and hotel management. I hope to provide you with some information below. Enlightenment. As mentioned above, first of all, you should clarify your goals. The goal is navigation. Only by having goals can you have a direction and not be confused. This is very necessary for the tourism management major that involves a wide range of industries. Most importantly, goals keep you from wasting time and life. Below we divide it according to the general career direction: Those who are willing to work in travel agency tour guides or obtain a master's degree in this major are recommended to take the exam. However, the statistics of graduates from our school in previous years show that there are basically zero people working as tour guides in this major, and those working as travel agencies are already very rare; the first degree is in tourism, it depends on your personal wishes; if you want to work as an overseas tour guide and an international tour guide, it is recommended to take the exam . Let’s look back at the verification process. Taking the tour guide certificate exam is definitely a job where the investment exceeds the output. You must first study 6 or 7 official designated subjects to prepare for the first round of the national written examination, including the basic knowledge of national tour guides, local tour guide basics, tourism policies and regulations, tour guide business, etc. The content is complex and must be memorized in large quantities, and the preparation time is very tight. During this period, we spent a lot of time reading frantically. Not to mention the physical and mental stress, we also had to travel to the designated city to take the written test. I went back to prepare for the interview. I memorized 8 tour guides a week (a few pages is enough for one article, and if it is an English tour guide, the tour guides will be in English). For the interview, I went to the designated test center to randomly select questions and the teacher asked about professional knowledge... Ignore these psychological and physiological Not to mention the double test, its low passing rate can be daunting. Such hard work is nothing more than a certificate, which is only valuable to those engaged in the tour guide industry. There are also students from other majors who have asked me about taking the tour guide certificate for traveling. As far as I am concerned, I have never thought about using the tour guide certificate to reduce tickets when traveling. There are specific regulations. Some of my classmates have worked part-time as tour guides, mostly for fun and experiential purposes. If you are willing to work as a tour guide, you should be mentally prepared. Apart from the fact that the domestic tour guide industry has unguaranteed wages, low thresholds, and irregularities, tour guides are divided into junior, middle, senior, and special levels. Promotion is somewhat difficult. There are 540,000 tour guides nationwide, and there are only 27 special-level tour guides in the country. Special-level tour guides not only require a bachelor's degree or above, 9 years of experience as a junior to senior tour guide in the form of monster hunting, but also require a certain number of papers or monographs to be published, etc. Hard conditions... God-like exists, and one of them has even appeared on hundreds of forums. Therefore, if you do not have the intention to engage in a career as a tour guide or obtain a master's degree in tourism management, I suggest that you do not need to take the exam and instead spend your time on what you really need. If you are willing to work in the hotel industry, it will be an advantage if your second degree is in English. Hotels are relatively stable compared to tour guides. International hotel groups have greater room for advancement than domestic hotels. Before my internship in my junior year, I had an interview with hotel HR. Because of my fluent speaking skills, I was assigned to the front office department, and then interviewed for the position assigned by the front office manager. The host is an English major and has obvious advantages in speaking. It will be difficult for the front office to reject you. It would be better if you have a background of overseas returnees. Certificates in English, such as the eighth-level professional qualification, are not a problem for entry. The content of the hotel is relatively complicated, so I won’t say much about it due to time constraints. In general, hotels need comprehensive talents. What is important are academic qualifications (which determines the threshold), work ability, interpersonal skills, learning ability, and knowledge. Certificates are actually not important (this is actually the case in most industries in China... 囧). For example, the front office manager and housekeeping director in charge of the hotel where I am doing my internship are not only personal charisma, connections, handling skills, and leadership skills, but they are also proficient in several languages. They blurt out knowledge about ancient and modern Chinese and foreign countries, and they are called " Even though some people have many certificates or even a master's degree, they have been still working in front-office grassroots positions for many years due to poor overall ability or lack of outstanding abilities... It can be said that the hotel is a microcosm of the big society. . My internship reflection is: A person's way of thinking determines his life. If you are willing to engage in tourist attraction design and tourism planning (this is also the direction I am most interested in), just one sentence: Don't take the exam, just take the postgraduate exam! There is still a big difference between undergraduate education and master's degree education in domestic tourism majors, and tourism management in prestigious foreign universities is also a good choice. During my master's degree, my tutors will have scenic spot projects, and some of our teachers also own companies... so there are many opportunities to show off their skills. Planning a new scenic spot is very tiring and arduous, but it is very interesting. In addition, if an international tourism conference is held, students can also apply to attend the conference abroad. But different schools have different preferences for students. For example, Sun Yat-sen, which ranks first, recruits more students from its own school, and our school prefers undergraduate students majoring in geography... other directions... such as exhibitions, etc... Overall, the key lies in the positioning and goals of the poster. What we should think about is not what certificates we should have, but how to improve our professionalism, way of thinking, and knowledge dimensions... Certificates only prove that we have the most basic knowledge conditions in a certain field and our learning ability and learning in the past period of time Attitude (the same applies to scholarships, diplomas, etc.), and soft indicators such as conversation, thinking, and ways of doing things are the "certificates" that we can't get rid of in our lives. And these empty and general soft indicators require continuous learning over many years. ***Reluctant.

It’s late at night... That’s it, please tap ~ 2014/8/11 Addendum: Some people have misunderstandings about the tourism management major. One is that “tourism management = tour guide OR tour guide management”; the other is that “this major is very fun” . This is not the case. The tourism industry involves a wide range of industries, ranging from travel agencies, hotels, scenic spots, conferences and exhibitions, to aviation and other transportation industries, and tourism academics... Tour guides are just one of the professions. In fact, there are a wide range of professions for tourism majors to choose from. It can be seen that tourism majors are relatively "Taiwan Balm". Tourism management is a branch subject under business administration. As far as school curriculum is concerned, different schools have different focuses. For example, middle and high schools focus on practical hotel and travel agency service operations courses; some colleges and universities focus on management courses, with mixed courses; in tourism management courses at foreign language universities, foreign language alone takes up about half of the time... Tourism major The academic pressure of students is still relatively high, and the weekly courses for freshmen and sophomores are all full; with the increasingly fierce competition for employment and the prejudice against tourism majors by some people in society, the employment pressure of tourism majors is also not small. According to employment statistics circulated on the Internet, tourism management is among the top ten most difficult majors to find employment in colleges and universities across the country. Therefore, students majoring in tourism need to be more careful if they want to improve their competitiveness. Take foreign language as an example. If your undergraduate school is a certain foreign language university, and the tourism major can pass the associate's 8 exam, then work hard to learn English and pass the associate 8 exam; if your undergraduate school cannot pass the associate 8 exam, you can take the English certificate such as advanced interpretation, or master a A small language. It is difficult for a graduate who is fluent in English and masters two or more languages ??to be unpopular with employers. Of course, I'm a little off topic here... I'm just providing you with a reference. A close friend sent me a private message saying that I feel very confused when studying tourism, and I don’t know whether to choose tourism or hotel, etc... These questions must ultimately come back to the individual. First, choose the direction of study based on personal interests, school strength, and development prospects; Then learn some language or accounting knowledge with a purpose. If you add more possibilities to yourself in terms of learning, you will not limit yourself to death in terms of career planning.

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