Tourism Management aims to cultivate advanced managerial and research professionals, familiarized the world tourism industry policies and the latest development of international tourism as well as its management, with an integrated systematic mastery of economics, sociology and management theories together with modern tourism research methodology, who are fluent in English, capable of doing managerial work and research in tourism.
The main areas of this major are tourism administration, international hotel management education, resorts development and management, behaviors research of tourists as consumers, exhibition economy and festival tourism. Main curriculums are tourism theories and pragmatic research, international tourism development research, comparative study of hotel management in China and at abroad, methodology of tourism research, resorts development and management research, international hotel management education research, tourism administration research, recreational projects development and management and behaviors research of tourists as consumers.
The graduates are expected to be qualified in tourism enterprises management at levels of administration department of municipals, tourist sites, hotels, traveling agencies as well as traveling consultation agencies, and be capable to do managerial and planning work of projects in parks, museums, airlines, exhibition centers as well as communities. They are also appreciated to be competent in education and research on tourism in colleges. The further study in this field for doctor degree is feasible.
