Course code: 088502
Course name: Introduction to Tourism Studies
Course type: specialty fundamental course
Period: 36
Credit: 2
Target students: Undergraduate student majoring in Tourism Management
Assessment: examination
Preparatory courses: Principles of Management
Introduction to Tourism Studies is the compulsory course of Tourism Management. It takes tourism activities as research objects, and specializing in key factors and their mutual relations. The main contents include the study on history and trend of tourism, on tourists, on tourism attractions, and on the tourism effects on society, economic, culture and environment, tourism trends in the world and in the China and so on. This course can help students have a good understanding of the basic theory and knowledge of Introduction to Tourism Studies, as well as have fundamental ability in analyzing and solving tourist practical problems.