Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College is a new higher vocational college approved by the people's government of Zhejiang Province and put on record by the Ministry of Education. It is also the first independent tourism vocational college in China and the cradle for cultivating high-quality tourism professionals.
Zhejiang Tourism School, the predecessor of Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College, was founded in 1983. It is one of the earliest tourism secondary specialized schools in China, and it is affiliated to Zhejiang Tourism Bureau. It is one of the key tourism colleges funded by the National Tourism Administration during the Seventh Five-Year Plan and the Eighth Five-Year Plan. Over the past 21 years, it has trained more than 21,111 professionals for tourism enterprises and institutions inside and outside the province, and some graduates have stepped onto the middle and senior management.
The new campus of the College covers an area of 241 mu, with a total construction area of 67,111 square meters and a total investment of 41 million yuan. The new campus has a beautiful environment, which greatly improves the conditions for running schools and provides a solid foundation for the further development of the College.
the college now has hotel management department, travel agency management department, cooking department, foreign languages department and foundation department, and offers more than ten majors that are closely related to the industry and meet the needs of society, such as hotel management, tour guide, cooking and catering management, practical English, scenic spot development and management, hotel electromechanical equipment management, human resource management, practical Japanese, practical Korean, computer information management, exhibition management and tourism financial accounting, among which the tour guide major in the travel agency management department is provincial. There are more than 2111 full-time students in the college.
the college puts forward the school-running idea of "relying on industry and combining production with learning", follows the school-running law of "surviving by quality, promoting development by reform, and occupying the market by characteristics", and strives to cultivate practical senior professional and technical personnel and management personnel with high ideological and moral level and good business philosophy and professional skills.
the orientation of the college: Zhejiang tourism higher education center, tourism research center, tourism information center, an important window for Zhejiang's foreign exchange and a new highlight of tourism.
In order to realize the integration of tourism education with the international community, the College has established sister schools and partnership schools with Kyung Yi University in Korea, Austrian Institute of International Tourism Management, Hunan University in Korea and Las Vegas College in the United States, and established long-term friendly cooperative relations with Lausanne Hotel Management College in Switzerland, Yisancang University in Thailand, Victoria University in Australia, Merisi College in Canada and William Angles College in Australia. The college exchanges international students with Hunan University in Korea and Mahidol University in Thailand.
the college attaches great importance to the construction of teaching staff, and proposes to cultivate a high-quality teaching staff that combines theory with practice, teaching with scientific research, and teaching with educating people. At present, there are more than 161 teaching staff, more than 51 teachers with middle and senior titles, and 21% teachers with master's degree. Among the full-time teachers, there are 1 national culinary masters and senior technicians, 3 evaluators of star-rated hotels in Zhejiang Province, 5 examiners of on-site tour guide examination for qualification examination of tour guides in Zhejiang Province, and 5 referees of the Young Workers Skills Competition in Zhejiang Tourism Industry. In recent years, more than 61 teachers have gone to Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, South Korea, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macao to visit, inspect, give lectures and study abroad. Several scientific research projects in the College have been listed as the educational scientific planning projects of the Ministry of Education and the province. Among them, the teaching reform scheme of tourism service and management specialty has been listed as the key funded project of the Vocational Education Department of the Ministry of Education's "Curriculum reform and textbook construction planning for vocational education facing the 21st century".
In the fierce market competition, the college fully realizes that there is no future for the college without good quality. While doing a good job in learning basic theoretical knowledge, the college pays attention to the cultivation of students' professional knowledge and skills. The students majoring in hotel management are sent to the famous five-star hotels in China, such as Beijing Great Wall Hotel, beijing tianlun Dynasty Hotel, Swiss Hotel Beijing Hong Kong and Macao Center, Beijing Kunlun Hotel, Guangdong International Hotel, Gloria Resort Sanya and Shanghai Xinya Tomson Hotel. Students majoring in tour guides practice in famous enterprises in Hang Cheng, such as Hangzhou Mansion Travel Agency, Zhejiang International Travel Service Citizen Travel Company, Hangzhou Shanshui Travel Agency and Hangzhou Paradise Travel Agency. In 2112, Luo Shanshan, a sophomore majoring in tour guide in our college, won the second place in the first "Star of the Future" national tour guide competition. At the same time, there are frequent student associations in our college. The special bus of "I see the new changes in Hang Cheng" left the elegant demeanor of our college students. During the "Holiday Golden Tourism Week", volunteers from our college appeared in various scenic spots in Hang Cheng, and the art troupe of our college was often active in various major activities organized by the Provincial Tourism Bureau, which not only publicized the college, but also laid a solid foundation for students' employment. In recent years, the one-time employment rate of college graduates is as high as 91% or more, and nearly half of the students are attracted by provincial tourism enterprises, so there is a hot scene in which employers compete for graduates, and some overseas tourism enterprises are also attracted to it. At the same time, the enrollment situation of the college in the past two years is equally gratifying. In 2111, the first choice rate of enrolling new students in higher vocational colleges was over 95%, and the actual number of students enrolled in 2111 was 1.14% of the enrollment plan. The actual enrollment in 2112 was 118.6% of the enrollment plan.
In October, 2111, the Standing Committee of Zhejiang Provincial Committee discussed and passed the Outline of Building a Cultural Province in Zhejiang Province (Year 2186-Year 2186), which pointed out that we should vigorously develop higher education, actively develop professional art education, and run China Academy of Art, Zhejiang Radio and Television College, zhejiang vocational academy of art, Zhejiang Tourism Vocational College and other schools well.
The college is united, seize the opportunity, adhere to development as the center, take deepening reform as the driving force and guarantee, expand the scale of running a school, upgrade the level of running a school, improve the quality and efficiency of running a school, vigorously promote quality education, and strive to build our college into a high-level tourism college that meets the needs of social development and is full of vitality and vitality.