Tourism Management of Henan University formally established and enrolled students in 1994, which was the earliest in Henan Province. In 2001, tourism management department started to recruit master graduate students in tourism culture and tourism geography. It was the first to award the conferring right of master’s degree among Henan province’s universities in 2003 and became the provincial key discipline since 2008. In addition, henan university earned the master of tourism administration (MTA) degree conferring right in 2010, which was the national first batch. Then the tourism management department develop rapidly: be appraised “the Top Ten Tourism Colleges and Departments in China” in 2011; be approved “Provincial Characteristic Specialty” in 2013 and “Provincial Specialty Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project” in 2014; in 2015, the first batch earned education master and professional master degree conferring right, be approved “Provincial Specialty Postgraduate Education Comprehensive Reform Pilot Project”, and was selected as the national “TOP20” scientific research institution; be approved “China Tourism Academy Research Center of Cultural Tourism” and theoretical teaching spot of national “Cultural Tourism Talent Training Center” in 2017.

   The department of Tourism Management possesses an energetic and high-quality academic team comprised of 22 full-time teachers, which includes one professor, 10 associate professors, 11 lecturers. The department has one doctorial supervisor, 14 full-time master tutors and 22 part-time master tutors. Among them, there are one teacher selected in “Academic leader of henan province”, a speaker at CCTV’s Lecture Room, two teachers selected in “young backbone teacher of high school in Henan province”, one teacher selected in “the Tourism Young Expert Training Program of China National Tourism Administration”, one teacher selected in “Thousands of Tourism talents planning project of China National Tourism Administration”, six teachers who have study and working experience overseas.

 Department of tourism management has a relatively complete personnel training system. Currently, there are 339 undergraduate students, 7 international students majoring in tourism management, 340 commissioned undergraduate students of Minsheng College tourism management; 36 graduate students which include 10 academic master students (2 foreign students), 21 professional master students, 5 education master students, 3 doctoral students and 2 post doctor of tourism cultural history.

Tourism management department always focus on students’ humanities and practical innovation ability during the 25 years’ development. Our department persist in cooperating with enterprises to provide better job opportunities for students, promoting the students’ quality with international education, and have already developed a large number of talents for tourism and related fields. More than 1,500 undergraduates and over 100 master graduates have graduated. Nearly 16,000 Self-Taught students were cultivated by our department as the Henan province tourism management examination unit. In the past five years, more than 100 students have received awards in various competitions in China. The rate of postgraduate entrance examination reached over 30%. The pass rate of college English four and six have exceeded 90%. Many students won prizes in national and provincial competitions such as the National College English Contest and the University Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition. At present, there are more than 500 graduates who have become the mainstaies of tourism enterprises and tourism administrative departments such as tourist attractions, hotels, and travel agencies. More than 80 graduates have become the general managers of star hotels, tourist attractions, and travel agencies. More than 100 graduates have become academic leaders in Henan University, Shanghai Normal University, Henan Normal University, Henan University of Economics and Law, and other tourism colleges. Two graduates were awarded the “Golden Key” by the International Hotel Golden Key Organization (U.I.C.H). furthermore, one graduate student has quickly grown into a five-star hotel general manager within two years.