Department settings of Yunnan Tourism Vocational College

The Tourism Department of Yunnan Tourism Vocational College was formerly the Tourism Management Department of Yunnan Tourism School. It was established in 1998 and began to recruit tourism technical secondary school students. In 2011, the school established the Department of Tourism after being registered as Yunnan Tourism Vocational College by the Ministry of Education. The majors enrolled in university junior colleges include travel agency management, tour guide, tourism English, and applied Thai. The majors enrolled in technical secondary schools include Japanese tour guides and Korean tour guides. There are more than 1,100 students on campus, with a total enrollment of more than 8,000 students in the past 14 years, and more than 8,000 graduates have been delivered to the society. The first-time employment rate of graduates in that year is 100%.

The Department of Tourism currently has 48 full-time teachers, including 13 senior lecturers, 28 lecturers and 7 teaching assistants. Among the teachers, 2 are PhD students, 13 have obtained master's degrees, 3 are currently studying for master's degrees, 36 are dual-qualified teachers, and 7 have gone to the United States, the United Kingdom, Austria, Japan, Thailand and Singapore for further studies.

The Department of Tourism attaches great importance to the cultivation and construction of the teaching team, and the teaching level of teachers has been continuously improved. In the National Teacher Multimedia Courseware Competition and Lecture Competition, 3 teachers won the first prize and 6 teachers won the second prize. award. In the province's teacher speaking competition, 11 winners were awarded. Four teachers have been hired as judges for the national competition, and nine teachers have been hired as on-site examiners for the National Tour Guide Qualification Examination.

Teachers of the Department of Tourism attach great importance to scientific research. They have presided over more than ten projects from the China Vocational Education Association, Yunnan Provincial Department of Education, Yunnan Tourism Planning Institute, and Kunming Municipal Construction Bureau, and edited more than 30 textbooks. Published many papers in core national journals.

The Department of Tourism attaches great importance to the cultivation of students’ practical abilities. The ratio of practical courses to theoretical courses in the training plan and teaching plan is 1:1. There are 6 relatively complete various training rooms on campus and 10 off-campus training bases. Students' professional abilities have been significantly enhanced and their overall quality has been high. , have strong working ability and have been highly praised by employers. Many graduates have become general managers or department managers of travel agencies.

The Department of Tourism attaches great importance to education and teaching reform. Especially in recent years, according to the needs of tourism development and the job market, it has intensified education and teaching reform, explored new models of talent training, and cultivated many outstanding talents. students, many of whom have won awards in provincial and national competitions. In 2010, two students, Zhuang Xu and Wang Lin, who were sent by our department to participate in the "China Vision Cup" National Tourism School Service Skills (Tour Guide Service Skills) Competition, won the first prize. In 2010, Liu Dan, a student in Class 31 of our school’s English tour guide class, won the second place in the English group in the “Colorful Yunnan Cup” provincial tour guide competition, and won the “Gold Medal Tour Guide”, “Provincial Youth Job Expert”, and “Yunnan Tour Guide”. He was awarded the title of "Technical Expert in the Provincial Tourism Industry" and later represented Yunnan Province in the National Tour Guide Explanation Competition and won the Excellence Award. In addition, our school graduates Dai Shengchun and A Xiaoying also won the title of "Silver Tour Guide" in the English group in this competition. In the 2010 Provincial Secondary Vocational School Tour Guide Competition, two contestants from our school, Ma Ting and Li Jingqin, won a first prize and a second prize respectively. In addition, more than 100 students have won the title of "Gold Medal Tour Guide" in various states and cities across the province. In 2012, for the first time, our department sent three representative teams of college Mandarin, college English and secondary vocational Mandarin to participate in the "Shenzhou Vision Cup" National Tourism College Service Skills (Tour Guide Service Skills) Competition. Shi Ruihan and Cun Danyun won the college Mandarin respectively. Gao Kelian and Yang Tianyu won the second prize in the college English group respectively, He Zhenxin won the first prize in the secondary vocational Mandarin group, Li Bing won the second prize, and our school won the "first prize in the group". After research at the dean’s office meeting on July 4, 2013, the original Department of Hotel and Leisure was divided into two departments: the Department of Hotel Management and the Department of Leisure Economics. The Department of Hotel Management is composed of the former hotel management and culinary teaching and research sections; the Department of Leisure Economics is composed of the former three teaching and research sections of golf, aviation services, and accounting.