Research on Development of Modern Service Industries

Release Date: 2017-09-21

Course Name	Research on Development of Modern Service Industries					Course Code
Course Type	□Public Degree Courses□ Basic degree course □ Public Obligatory Courses□Professional Obligatory Courses ☑ Professional Elective Course □ Public Elective Course
Course Semester	2nd	Course Time		36			Credit	2
Institute	Tourism Management and Planning Academy	Applicable Major		Tourism Management
Assessment method	□Examination（Close book ） □Examination（Open-book ） ☑Test(Term Papers) □Test(reading report) □Test(Journals reviewed) □Others
Usual Performance accounting	30%		Final grade accounting		70%
Advanced courses	Intermediate-Microeconomics， Research on Regional Tourism Development
Teachers	Gui Ladan
Teaching Objectives
Research on Development of Modern Service Industries is an effective way to adjust, optimize and upgrade economic structure by developing modern service industry that is also a basic circumstance of achieving comprehensive, coordinated and sustainable economic development, as well as an important choice for regions and cities to develop their economies and improve comprehensive competitiveness. By studying this course, students should academically comprehend the system and structure of the modern service industry, be familiar with its composition and basic theory. By case studies, practice, topic discussions and other methods, students are expected to improve their problems analyzing and solving abilities. Especially, they will be able to combine the reality with theory of tourism development, which can lay a solid foundation for other specialized courses.
Teaching Contents
The course of Research on Development of Modern Service Industries will be taught in the form of seminars, 7 in total. The first seminar is the research foundation of the development in the modern service industry, which contains the development and evolution of service industry, the theory of the development of service industry, and basic conception of modern service industry. The second seminar is research in regional development of the modern service industry, which contains regional differences and harmonious development of modern tourism industry, etc. The third seminar is about industry-related analysis of modern service industry, which contains comparative analysis on correlated characteristics and mutual effects of modern service industry. The fourth seminar is about evaluation of regional harmonious development in the modern service industry. The fifth seminar is the research on management modes and development strategies in the modern service industry, which contains management models, operation patterns and development strategies of modern service industry. The sixth seminar is policy practice on the development of modern service industry. The seventh seminar is the study of development in a modern service industry in Guangdong.