Tourism education in China originated from 1987, which is completely correct, and it can also be said that it was in the 1980s, which would be more accurate. Foreign tourism education originated in 1960s, while China started in 1980s.

Higher tourism education in China began at 1978, which marked the establishment of Shanghai Higher Tourism College. 1982 The Department of Economics of Hangzhou University took the lead in setting up tourism undergraduate majors.

Starting from 1980, the National Tourism Administration and eight ordinary universities, including Nankai University, jointly set up tourism departments or tourism majors. Tourism education in other colleges and universities was mostly founded in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Introduction to tourism education;

Tourism education is an important driving force for the perfection of tourism discipline and the sustainable development of tourism. "Tourism education" has become one of the most active branches and research hotspots in tourism discipline.

"Tourism education" is a comprehensive and complicated social and cultural activity to cultivate tourism talents, aiming at increasing the educated's tourism theoretical knowledge, practical ability and tourism professional ethics. "

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