Study of the Tourism Talents Training Mode Focusing on Practical Abilities

Abstract

The rapid development of China's tourism industry stimulates the society's demand on professional applied talents in tourism, especially in the direction of professional tourism planning and management. The boost of the demand for applied tourism talents brings not only the expansion of tourism education but also a series of problems exist in talents training mode. Aimed at the problems of backward practical teaching contents in the teaching process, unstable teaching practical base and the failing in carrying out the teaching practice, this essay promotes the improvement strategies of tourism talents training mode focusing on practical abilities. The strategies include a further definition on the practical teaching target of the tourism major, an enlarged proportion of practical curriculum, an innovated cooperation mode between schools and enterprises to better adapt graduates to the society's demands and a reasonable enlarged teaching staff in practical teaching with managers in enterprises as the guest lecturers. 1. The status quo of the development and demand for talents of China's tourism industry China's tourism industry has been developing rapidly for years since the reform and opening (shown in Fig.1) and the domestic tourism income and inbound tourism income has an accelerating growing speed in this century. China's domestic tourism income increased by 827% in 13 years as it grew from 317.5 billion yuan in 2000 to over 2.6276 trillion yuan in 2013, approximately this year's gross domestic product of Thailand, which is the tourist attraction of Asia. The inbound tourism income at the same time increased by 318% with it grew from 16.2 billion dollars in 2000 to 51.664 billion dollars in 2013, approximately the gross domestic product of Bulgaria, which is the country of rose in Europe.