TITLE:
Construction and Implementation Pathways of an Integrated Curriculum System for Tourism Management in Secondary-Higher Vocational Education amidst Digital-Cultural Tourism Convergence
AUTHORS:
Xiuyu Xu
KEYWORDS:
Curriculum System, Tourism Management Major, Digital, Cultural Tourism Convergence
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.13 No.8,
August
22,
2025
ABSTRACT: Against the backdrop of digital-intelligent cultural-tourism convergence, the tourism industry exhibits heightened demand for professionals with enhanced capabilities in digital technology application, interdisciplinary knowledge integration, innovative practice, and continuous learning. This trend poses new challenges to current talent cultivation in tourism vocational education. To address this, the construction of an integrated secondary-higher vocational curriculum system for tourism management programs requires comprehensive reforms across four dimensions: positioning curriculum objectives, optimizing course content, innovating pedagogical approaches and refining assessment mechanisms. Concurrently, three synergistic pathways must be implemented: developing diverse-qualification faculty teams through multidimensional capacity, integrating educational resources through multi-approach coordination and strengthening policy safeguards via multilayered institutional support. This integrated framework aims to align vocational education with emerging trends in digital-intelligent cultural-tourism convergence.