Brief Introduction of Tourism Management
School of Xiangtan University

     With its utmost emphasis on discipline construction and teacher construction, Tourism Management School of Xiangtan University is centering on improving and enhancing teaching and educating quality. Its special characteristic is seeking development from serving the local economy. The purpose of this School is to cultivate students with broad international perspective, extensive humanity knowledge, solid theoretical foundation and sustained innovation ability. It currently consists of the Department of Tourism Management, the Department of Hotel Management, the Department of Human Resources Management. It has also established Tourism Science Application Institution, Human Resources Management Research Institution, Hunan Red Tourism Research Base, Hunan Tourism on-the-job Training Demonstration Base, Tourism and Hotel Management Experimental Center co- built by the central and local governments and many other Teaching, Research and Training centers. The Tourism Management School of Xiangtan University offers two B.A programs—tourism management and human resources, one M.A. program—tourism management, and set up MBA in tourism management jointly with Business School of our university. Now it includes more than 500 undergraduate and graduate students.
    The School possesses an excellent teaching and research staff consisting of professors and instructors. At present it has a teaching and administrative staff of approximately 23, including 5 full professors, 4 associate professors, 8 Doctors & Doctor Candidates, 12 lecturers, 1 scholar of "100 Project" of Hunan Province, 1 winner of “121Talent Project” of Hunan Province, 2 youth core teachers, 4 advisory experts of Hunan Tourism Planning, 2 members of Hunan Tourism Principal Committee, 2 members of Hunan Leisure Agriculture Experts Committee, 1 Senior Guider of Hunan Province.
    The School covers 1,600 m2 teaching and scientific research area, with advanced tourism and hotel management Experimental Center. Costing more than 300 millions, this center is co-built by central and local government, which provides a good condition for the students to develop their comprehensive abilities. It not only has developed good relations with more than30 well-known hotels at home and abroad, such as Hilton Hotel, Hunan Huatian Hotel, Dongguan International Longquan Hotel, Sanya Palme Hotel, but also has established a stable practical training bases with more than 100 scenery spots, traveling agencies as well as Municipal Tourism Bureau around the country , such as Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie, Mountain Shao and Mountain Nanyue, Huatian International Traveling Agency, Guangzhilv Traveling Agency, which presents a good chance for teachers and students to practice themselves.
    The school lays equal stress on teaching and scientific research. In recent years, it has undertaken and completed more than 100 various types of research and half of them have got prizes. The main projects include “Studies on Regional Competition and Collaboration of Tourism Development in Ethnic Areas” sponsored by the State Social Sciences Fund and more than 50 national and provincial research projects. The teachers have not only hosted and participated in 40 issues, but also published more than 50 academic works textbooks and 500 academic papers in many academic journals, such as in “Guangming Daily” (theory version), “Tourism Journal”, “Economic Geography”, “Research and Development”, “Regional Research and Development”, “Tourism Science”, “Seeking”, “Contemporary Financial”, “Financial Theory and Practice”, “Soft Science” and so on.