2012 Annual Meeting of China Tourism Academy's External Research Institutions Held in Shanghai

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On December 23-24, 2011, the annual meeting of the external research institutions of China Tourism Academy was successfully held at the Urban Tourism Research Base of China Tourism Academy (Shanghai Normal University). The theme of this annual meeting was "Academic Community and the Cultivation of Young Talents". Representatives from 12 external research institutions, representatives from 8 observer units and nearly 100 teachers and students from Shanghai Normal University attended the annual meeting. Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily Online, China Tourism News, Sohu Travel, Tourism Times and other media reported the meeting in full.

This annual meeting is divided into three parts, namely the annual work summary and plan of peripheral research institutions, academic seminars and the release of landmark results in 2011. On the afternoon of December 23, 2 branches and 10 peripheral research bases, including the Urban Tourism Research Base, focused on urban tourism, tourism market and destination marketing, tourism impact, basic tourism theory, hotel industry, tourism safety, An annual summary of the organizational construction, scientific research business and talent training carried out in the western tourism development, Taiwan tourism, tourism vocational education, tourism standardization and other disciplines was carried out. According to statistics, this year, the 12 external research institutions of the China Tourism Academy published nearly 40 monographs and textbooks in their respective tourism disciplines, published nearly 180 academic papers, and undertook nearly 140 projects of various types at all levels. Dai Bin, President of the China Tourism Academy, made a special speech on the theme of "The cultivation of young people is the strategic mission of the academic community". He emphasized that the growth of young people is the basis for the inheritance and innovation of tourism academics; the inheritance and guidance of young people is the key task of the current tourism discipline construction; the growth of young scholars is the strategic mission of the academic community. He expressed the hope that tourism academic institutions, especially the administrative heads and subject leaders of the institutions, would have a sense of mission in cultivating young scholars. It is hoped that academic institutions will put more burdens on young people and create opportunities for them to grow up under the burdens. It is hoped that academic institutions will steadily build academic platforms so that young scholars can always carry out academic evolution and theoretical innovation in the right direction. It is hoped that academic institutions will establish a correct value orientation for young people, jointly explore scientific research methods that adapt to the needs of the times, form a value rationality and instrumental rationality unique to academic groups, and cultivate a Chinese school of tourism theoretical research in the process of passing on academic fire. .

On the morning of December 24, participating representatives participated in the academic seminar session of the annual base work meeting. The meeting was chaired by Gao Jun, chief expert of the Urban Tourism Research Base. Shen Shanzhou, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Tourism Bureau, Yang Weiwu, member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Shanghai Normal University and dean of the School of Tourism, and Dai Bin, dean of the China Tourism Research Institute, delivered speeches respectively. Under the auspices of professors Li Tianyuan, Ma Yaofeng and Xie Yanjun, young tourism scholars from 12 external research institutions discussed "tourism higher education reform and MTA training system", "tourism industry and urban integrated development", "socialism "Tourism under the background of great cultural development and prosperity" was discussed in depth. On the afternoon of December 24, China Tourism Academy organized 12 external research institutions to release the landmark academic achievements of 2011. Media, representatives, teachers and students from Shanghai Normal University School of Tourism attended the press conference and had a lively discussion around the released results.

Finally, President Dai Bin awarded the "China Tourism Research Institute (Graduate) Excellent Award Program Fund" to the Urban Tourism Research Base. He pointed out that in order to adapt to the new needs of quality education and create a scientific research and academic atmosphere, the China Tourism Research Institute has established the "China Tourism Research Institute (Graduate) Excellent Award Program Fund" since 2012 to subsidize doctoral and master students in the tourism major with scientific research potential to engage in scientific research activities and cultivate students' scientific research capabilities and innovation awareness. In order to better utilize the limited funds, the Institute will focus on subsidizing one branch or research base each year. At the same time, the fund accepts donations from all walks of life and all of them are used for this excellent award program. List of 12 external research institutions of the China Tourism Research Institute: Kunming Branch, Tourism Market and Destination Marketing Research Base, Tourism Impact Research Base, Tourism Basic Theory Research Base, Hotel Industry Research Base, Tourism Safety Research Base, Wuhan Branch, Urban Tourism Research Base, Western Tourism Development Research Base, Taiwan Tourism Research Base, Tourism Vocational Education Research Base, Tourism Standardization Research Base.