I. A Brief Introduction

Central China Normal University is a key comprehensive University under Ministry of Education, is a national "211 Project" key construction universities, Tourism Management is key major in Central China Normal University. The late 1980s it began to recruit college student .Tourism Department was formally established in 1996 to recruit undergraduate student, under College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, and now it has tourism management master's degree. For good contributions in the tourism research and the application of outstanding achievements, in June 2010 China Tourism Academy of the National Tourism Administration launched only one branch in university in China - China Tourism Academy Wuhan Branch .

Faculty of Tourism Management Department is strong, has long been engaged in tourism education and research experts, scholars and academic backbone. In recent years, they have published more than 20 monographs and tourism-related professional textbooks; commitment to the national level, provincial and ministerial research projects, as well as all levels of government and enterprises commissioned a number of tourism planning projects with good reputation in the tourism academia and industry.

Tourism Management has a clear objective for students. It has long insisted combining theory and practice of educational policy to match the needs of society as its mission, training with travel management expertise, a solid theoretical foundation, practical ability, to tourism administrative departments at all levels, tourism enterprises and institutions engaged in tourism management work of the senior professionals, and senior and intermediate teachers. Teaching facilities of Tourism Management Department, with a library, computer rooms, language labs, multimedia classrooms, internship international three-star standard rooms, bars and a variety of modern teaching experiment teaching audio-visual equipment, and with a number of partnership with high-star Hotels , tourist attractions, tourism administrative departments and other designated students practice base .

Students of Tourism management have good career awareness, who Masters management skills in the tourism, with high level of English, computer skills and strong language skills. In recent years, each year nearly 30 percent of the students admitted to graduate school to continue their studies. For more than ten-year history, it has trained nearly a thousand graduates, with these students engaged in at all levels of the tourism administration department, tourism enterprises, tourism and other institutions engaged in tourism management, research, teaching and other work, by all employers welcome.

II. Educational Objectives

The professional training matches for modern tourism, with the students with economics, management basics, with the basic principles of modern tourism management, methods and means, with the humane quality, global vision, innovation, entrepreneurship, practical ability and social responsibility, who can work in all types of travel-related enterprises and educational and research institutions engaged in the operation, management, planning, consulting, application services, etc., compound talents, and to travel higher and secondary schools in training teachers for graduate education provide outstanding students.

III. Basic Requirements

The students mainly study modern economics, management and basic theory of tourism management, operation and management of travel service and is trained with the teaching of basic training , to acquire capabilities of analyzing and solving the basic problem of tourism management.

The graduates should acquire the following knowledge and abilities:

1) master the basic theory, basic knowledge, with a strong integrated use of the basic theories and knowledge to solve practical problems;

2) familiar with foreign & domestic tourism guidelines, policies and regulations, to understand our country and the world tourism industry and modern service industry developments;
3) master basic computer knowledge, proficiency in the application of office automation equipment and information management systems;

4) has a high level of foreign language, have good international communication skills;

5) master document retrieval, data for the basic approach has some scientific research and practical work, with some creative thinking;

6) with modern educational concepts and advanced teaching methods, teaching organizational skills and strong research capabilities;

7) grasp the basic principles and methods of entrepreneurship, with a strong sense of innovation and ability.

IV. Major Courses

Principles of management, Essentials of Economics , statistics, tourism, tourism economics, tourism planning and development, tourism marketing, tourism psychology, hotel management, travel service management, financial management, modern service management, tourism business English, tourism consumer Behavior , tourism Culture

V. Length of Schooling and Degree

Length of Schooling: 4 years

Degree: Bachelor of Management