Should I choose tourism management as my major? What should I study? Is the employment rate good?

The employment situation of graduates majoring in tourism and hotel management is not optimistic.

Tourism graduate: There is no choice but to be a tour guide hotel. "In order to settle down as soon as possible, I just found a private travel agency as a tour guide. Basic salary, 300 yuan. A month later, I only got the basic salary. If you share a rent with your classmates, it will cost 200 yuan a month, so you still live the most riff-raff with a very low quality of life. " A newly graduated undergraduate majoring in tourism management told the author in an interview. "I ran for a long time, participated in more than a dozen interviews, and there were many job fairs, but I chose to go and didn't know what to do, so I have been living in a hotel. In fact, at first, I felt that I was not as good as a secondary school graduate with several years of work experience, but the reality is already like this, and I have to crustily skin of head and slowly accumulate. " A graduate majoring in tourism management who just signed up as a room attendant in a five-star hotel in Zhengzhou told us.

Tourism-related units: It is difficult to recruit the talents we want. "We need high-quality tour guides to adapt to the current tourism environment and situation." The manager of a travel agency said to the author, "These people should have rich cultural knowledge, super adaptability, good image, good temperament, rich experience, strong language skills, wide knowledge and be decent and generous to others. It is difficult to recruit and retain such talents, which increases the cost and burden of work. It is not that college students are inferior to vocational high schools, but that college graduates are arrogant. There are also college students who come to us for employment after graduation. They also have high enthusiasm for traveling, but they don't want to suffer. They wanted to be managers from the beginning, which was simply unrealistic. In fact, college students become social people when they enter the society, and they need to learn a lot. Our principle is to start from the grassroots. " The department manager of a travel agency reported. Colleges and universities: attaching importance to theory and neglecting practice. At present, most colleges and universities pay more attention to the cultivation of cultural theoretical knowledge, which leads to the lack of organic combination of students' theoretical knowledge and practical skills. There are not many undergraduate students majoring in tourism, most of them are teachers and office clerks in enterprises and institutions, while secondary school students engaged in tourism industry cover almost 70%-80% of employees in travel agencies and scenic spots.

On the one hand, there is a high demand for high-quality talents, on the other hand, a large number of graduates can't find satisfactory jobs, and the market can't find a good fit between talent demand and supply. For this reason, I think it is very important to keep a good attitude. Tourism graduates must not be arrogant. They should pay attention to the cultivation of their comprehensive ability in school, and they can't be impatient or give up even if they are unhappy for a while after entering the society. The most important thing is to change your mind when you are employed. I am willing to start from the grassroots level and constantly strengthen theoretical cultivation and practical accumulation to adapt to the increasingly competitive society.

In the long run, it belongs to the sunrise industry, which is full of vitality and vitality. However, the competition in this industry will become more and more fierce. Because the employment threshold of the low-end tourism industry is low, the profit margin is getting smaller and smaller, which is very hard. There is still a lot of room for development and profit in the high-end market, but the employment threshold is high. Therefore, the basic conclusion is that if you know a foreign language and have high personal quality, you can enter high-end industries, and the prospects are very promising. However, entering the low-end market and doing general tourism management may be very competitive and hard.