The Department of Tourism and Hotel Management was established in 1989. Over the two decades, with concerted efforts by the faculty, the Department has developed into a key discipline of Fujian Province, and a national key subject in business administration under SMXMU. With a strong faculty, excellent teaching facilities and practice bases, the Department offers undergraduate, masters and PhD programs in tourism and hotel management, accepts post doctoral researchers as well.,
Over the years, the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management has fully utilized the strength of a comprehensive university, focusing on the combination of teaching, research and practice. Through academic exchanges, by continuously improving teaching and research quality, the Department aims at building up its discipline strength, and accomplishes a great deal in developing faculty, textbooks, teaching facilities and practice bases. Currently, the Department possesses a high-level faculty, among the 9 full time faculty members, all of whom are full professors and associate professors, and the faculty with PhDs takes 78%, capable of educating inter-disciplinary talents with broad knowledge base, and international scope.
The Department of Tourism and Hotel Management utilizes its geographical advantages and links to keep studying the Southeast Asian and Taiwan tourist markets, and has good accomplishments, particularly in researching the Southeast Asian and Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macao markets, tourism resources development and tourism enterprise management, thus gaining its position in the discipline in China. Recently, while maintaining its traditional discipline advantages, the Department seeks to combine the strength of financial management, to build its characteristic service quality management and tourism financial management programs.
