Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D) in
Tourism Management
Programme Objectives
Doctoral students in this discipline should love the motherland, abide by discipline and law, have good research literacy, professional ethics and sense of cooperation, and be able to actively serve social modernization; advocate the core value of science and innovation, master the solid basic theory and frontier practical issues; have independent scientific research ability and can utilize scientific research methods to solve major practical problems in tourism and related industries; good writing skills, academic communication ability, international vision and competitiveness. After graduation, the students are required to be competent for teaching and research in Colleges and universities, research institutions, etc., or serve as senior management of relevant units in the tourism industry.
Graduate Outcomes
1. Literacy Requirements
(1) Humanistic quality: The students are requied to thoroughly implement the scientific view on development, support the Party's route, principles and policies, have good quality in ideological and politicy and moral cultivation, can serve socialist construction, and have good scientific spirit and academic ethics, have humanistic and social science literacy, understand historical and cultural background, and be able to identify scientific research problems with Chinese characteristics.
(2) Professional quality: master the solid basic theory and systematic professional knowledge of the discipline, and have high written and language expression ability; Have innovative spirit and basic literacy and ability to engage in scientific research, teaching and management. Be competent for teaching and research work in Colleges and research institutions, or management of relevant units in the tourism industry
(3) Scientific research literacy: systematically master scientific research methods, be able to independently identify scientific research problems and solve problems with matching research tools, have good written expression ability, and have the basic literacy of independently writing academic papers and industrial reports.
2. Knowledge Requirements
(1) Basic theory and cutting-edge knowledge: master rich and solid theoretical basis and cutting-edge research results and practice through the study of cutting-edge lectures on tourism research and practice and selected readings of tourism classic literature.
(2) Scientific research methods: master scientific research methods and tools in the field of tourism management through the study of quantitative research methods, social science research methods, applied research methods and other courses.
(3) Professional orientation and interdisciplinary knowledge: master the knowledge of unique research directions and interdisciplinary knowledge through the study of professional orientation courses such as "behavioral science research under the network background", "special research on tourism informatization" and "Research on tourism regional system".
3. Capability Requirements
(1) Independent research and thesis writing ability: be able to apply the basic theory of tourism management, based on scientific research methods, combined with unique scenarios, identify and analyze relevant problems in the development of tourism industry, and form research results and corresponding solutions.
(2) International communication ability: have a certain international vision, be able to communicate and engage in research in a cross-cultural context, and be able to transmit research results and theories with Chinese characteristics in the field of international academic research
