A General Introduction to the College

◎The first vocational college of tourism in the country

◎The only vocational college of tourism in Zhejiang province

◎An excellent college in the national evaluation of personnel education working proficiency

* Industry Based * Integration of Production Learning * Geared into the World and School Supported Abroad Study

   Formerly known as Zhejiang Tourism School , Tourism College of Zhejiang was established in 1983. After the approval from the provincial government in March, 2000 for its construction and official announcement of its establishment in January, 2003, the college passed the qualification evaluation sponsored by Zhejiang Educational Bureau in June the same year and therefore became the first tourism vocational school in the country and the only independent and public tourism school of high learning in the province. In November 2006, it successfully passed the working proficiency evaluation sponsored by the Education Ministry and became the first Excellent Tourism College in the country affiliated to Zhejiang Tourism Bureau.

   Located by the Qiantang River , the Mother River of Zhejiang, the college covers an area of 304 mu with a floor space of more than 100 thousand square meters. Its garden styled architecture and the modern and comprehensive teaching facilities bring out the best in each other.

   The college has eight departments including Hotel Management, Travel Service Management, Tourism Planning, Foreign Language, Fine Arts, Basic Course, International Education Department and Adult Education School . It also has a Books and Information Center and the State Institute of Professional Skill Appraisal. It offers 22 majors as follows: guide interpreter, travel service operation and management, tourism management, hotel management, hotel engineering maintenance and management, personnel resource management, accounting, cooking techniques and nutrition, scenic spot development and management, convention and exhibition planning and management, tourism English, tourism Japanese, practical Korean, applied Russian, acting art, tourist product designing and making and air service. It enrolls students from the whole country. At present, it has over 6,000 full time students with a staff of more than 300.

   The college boasts a strong team of faculty and system of discipline. One hundred and sixty-five of the teachers hold senior or medium professional titles and 96 have doctorate or master degrees. There are also one member of Vocational Education and Teaching Supervising Committee, one discipline leading youth of the Higher Learning Schools in the province, three objects of educating under the “New Century 151 Personnel Program”, four youth supported by the province and one advanced teacher in the vocational education in the province. The college also constantly engages foreign teachers and experts of English, Japanese, Korean and Russian language. Two of the foreign teachers from the college have won the West Lake Friendship Prize. The college also boasts three state level elite courses, seven teaching materials belonging to the 11th five year plan of the education ministry, one key major of the province, ten provincial level elite courses and two specially constructed teaching materials in the province.

   The college is the center of tourism higher education and tourism scientific research in the province. It is also an important window to the foreign exchange of tourism education. The schooling of the college is characterized by Industry Based, Integration of Production and Learning and Geared into the World. It has innovatively developed a “Recruitment Program” with such well-known companies and hotels as the New Century Tourism Group Company, Zhejiang World Trade Centre Hotel, Hangzhou Dragon Hotel, West Lake Sofitel and Ningbo Nanyuan Hotel Group. The college is the first one in Zhejiang province authorized to enroll foreign students, the only one admitted by APETIT, the first one to send students to foreign hotels for internship, and the first one to exchange students with foreign universities. It is one of the vocational colleges that have a large number of students studying abroad and large number of foreign students studying on its campus. It has two cooperative education programs approved by the Education Ministry..

   For years, the college has been taking “Ambitious, Pragmatic, Caring and Exquisite” as its school motto. Seizing all the opportunities, the college perseveres to follow a course of internationalized tourism education one-heartedly and creatively for the goal of building itself into a college of provincially prominent, nationally famous and internationally well- known.