## 2023

Qudu Financial Statements, Hotel Management Principles, and Hotel Room Operations Management have been successively approved as national first-class courses

## 2022

-The major of Exhibition Economy and Management has been approved as a national first-class undergraduate major construction site

-The tourism management major has passed the UNWTO TedQual certification for tourism education quality by the United Nations World Tourism Organization

-The theoretical research and promotion application of technology foresight and innovation management facing the international forefront won the second prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award

## 2021

-Approved as the first Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Philosophy and Social Sciences, the Digital Countryside and Sustainable Development Laboratory of Culture and Tourism has been established in the school

-Approved as a key research base for humanities and social sciences in Guangzhou, Research Base for Integrated Development of Culture and Tourism (selected as a source think tank of China CTTI)

-The Research Report on the Development of Global Tourism in Guangdong Province won the first prize for excellent achievements in philosophy and social sciences in Guangdong Province

## 2020

-South China University of Technology establishes independent department level departments, including the Department of Tourism Management and the Institute of Tourism Development and Planning Research

-Establishing a Master's program in Digital Tourism and Exhibition Engineering Management (MEM) (the first in the country)

## 2019

The tourism management major has been approved as a national first-class professional construction site

## 2018

-Approved as Guangdong Provincial Social Science Research Base Guangdong Tourism Strategy and Policy Research Center (selected as a source think tank of China CTTI)

-Approved as the Guangdong Rural Revitalization and Tourism Big Data Engineering Technology Research Center by the Guangdong Engineering Technology Research Center

-Exploration and Practice of the Trinity Talent Training Model for Tourism Management Major Won the Second Prize of Guangdong Province Higher Education Teaching Achievement Award

## 2017

Approved as the Guangdong Hong Kong Macao Greater Bay Area Exhibition Collaborative Innovation Research Base by the Pan Pearl River Delta City Exhibition Alliance

## 2015

Holding the 2015 Guangzhou Xiaoguwei (Island) Asian Tourism Development Forum

## 2013

Establishing a middle school called the School of Tourism and Hotel Management in the School of Economics and Trade

## 2011

Jointly establish a 2+2 undergraduate program in tourism management with internationally renowned universities such as Purdue University and University of Wisconsin in the United States

## 2010

Approved doctoral program in tourism management

## 2009

Approved to build a national level comprehensive experimental teaching demonstration center (South China University of Technology) sub center

## 2008

Establishing an undergraduate program in Exhibition Economics and Management

## 2006

Approved Master's program in Tourism Management

## 2004

Establish a School of Tourism and Hotel Management and offer undergraduate programs in Tourism Management