Tourism Management Department
The department has a teaching staff of 35 people, 85% of whom graduated from famous tourism management colleges and have rich experience in tourism industry and 30% of whom were awarded MA degree. And the department is well equipped with complete specialized teaching facilities such as simulated guest room, simulated restaurant, simulated bar, simulated kitchen, simulated electronic business lab, simulated network classroom and so on. Besides, it has set up its own hotel for teaching use and some internship bases. The majors offered in the department are more distinctive compared to those offered in the other institutes of tourism in China. The department places great value on practical teaching and good relations with various tourism enterprises, sparing no efforts to train more qualified talents for the tourism industry
With the needs of the society in mind, the department attaches great importance to the application of theories to practices. Its aim is to make the students have strong tourism ethics and managerial expertise, have good organizational abilities and adaptation skills. They should also master more than one foreign language and be computer literate. During their 3 years of study, the students will have to spend 6 to 12 months on fieldwork in some tourism companies. Besides normal teaching, the department annually offers some workshops on tourism management and services, for which it is praised by the tourism industry. In addition, the department has jointly set up some tourism management correspondence teaching schools with some tourism bureaus and tourism companies in Baise, Longsheng, Beihai and Liuzhou. In the past few years, the employment rate of the graduates of the department has been over 95%...