What are the employment prospects for tourism management majors in the United States?

According to statistics from the World Tourism Organization, tourism has become the world's largest industry, growing at a double-digit rate every year. According to the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) announcement at the World Conference held by the WTO, China's tourism employment ranks first in the world. According to the research results of the World Tourism Organization, by 2020, China will become the world's largest tourist destination, receiving 137 million inbound tourists annually. At the same time, there will be 100 million outbound tourists in 2020, ranking fourth in the world. Therefore, there is a huge gap in my country's demand for tourism management talents. Tourism management major is a new discipline established with the development of my country's tourism economy and tourism industry. In our country, this discipline has only been around for twenty years, but it has become an important subject department in the management discipline system. Tourism management has been juxtaposed with business administration and is a first-level discipline under management.

From the perspective of studying abroad, the tourism management major has gradually become a popular choice due to its broad employment prospects. There are very few schools in the United States that offer a pure master's degree in tourism management. Among the current top 100 schools, only NYU, UIUC, and George Washington University have tourism management majors. Many schools such as Cornell, PennState, OhioState and Purdue offer hotel management (hotel/hospitalitymanagement) or hotel and tourism management (HospitalityandTourismManagement). From the perspective of the industry, tourism management should include hotel management, entertainment management and other fields. In terms of professional application, these majors are also similar. Therefore, it is generally recommended that students apply for hotel management or entertainment management in the United States while applying for tourism management.

In fact, the connection can also be seen from the school’s curriculum. Taking George Washington University as an example, its tourism management (Tourism Administration) has four directions: exhibition management, hotel management, and sports. Management and sustainable development management of tourist destinations.

The three core courses studied in different directions are all the same: Sustainable Destination Development, tourism research and the application of statistics in tourism/hotel management (StatisticalApplicationsinTourism/ Hospitality Management). Therefore, applicants can determine the direction they will choose based on their internship situation.

The application for tourism management majors in American universities is slightly less difficult than the application for some popular business majors. First of all, there are no hard and fast rules indicating which majors can apply for tourism management and which cannot. In terms of rigid requirements, tourism management applications have lower requirements for GMAT/GRE (preferring GRE scores), TOEFL, and GPA than those for majors such as finance and accounting. But at the same time, tourism management applications attach great importance to the applicant's internship or even work experience in related fields, which can even make up for the applicant's lack of GPA to a large extent. This can be seen from the school’s professional training plan. Tourism management in American universities is to cultivate senior management talents in tourism companies, hotels and other fields. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that applicants applying for tourism management have relevant work and internships before applying. experience.

Relevant industry experts believe that my country’s tourism employment has broad prospects, and there are ten major growth points for tourism employment. Namely: ten aspects: new accommodation and hospitality industry, specialty catering industry, development of tourist attractions, production and sales of tourism commodities, tourism agriculture, tourism industry, tourism emerging service industry, tourism culture and entertainment industry, tourism transportation industry, and tourism labor export. These fields have fast employment growth, great potential, strong motility, and can make full use of market mechanisms to accelerate development and have low employment costs.

Therefore, undergraduate graduates with certain practical experience are quite popular. However, undergraduate graduates need to overcome the problem of having high ambitions and low ambitions. They must start from the grassroots level in a down-to-earth manner, and then develop after gaining experience. Otherwise, they will not be able to achieve high standards and will artificially create employment difficulties.