A research on implementing tourism and hospitality computerized management into teaching

Within these past few years, the GDP of the services-producing industry in Taiwan has surpassed the GDP of traditional industry. Because of the ECFA Treaty and mutual trust and peace between Taiwan and China, the tourism industry has broken the new record within these 60 years by receiving more than 240-billion-dollar income. The tourism industry in Taiwan is expected to bring over 5.5 million visitors in the year of 2010, more than around 3 million visitors averagely per year in the past. Thus, training students to become professional workers in the field of tourism and hospitality plays an important role. Complying with so-called golden ten year vision and designing teaching creativity and practices are essential. In order to make students infuse new technology and management into their job markets under the system of industry-university and to promote industry creativity and values, vocational colleges should combine work field practices and theories and bring elites and commonly used computer software together. School E-learning platform, based on the combination of teaching and work field practices, should be developed to achieve the goal of resource sharing. Interesting digital instruction should be implemented to enable the course contents and the industrial system to become an interactive instruction. The implementation of tourism and hospitality computerization practice should be divided into two main tasks: one is work field practice and implementation; the other is operation analysis and management. The achievement of professional training effectiveness could be expected not only by simulating working environment and basis instruction but also by combing instruction and work field practices.