Introduction

The Department of Tourism Management provides the professional tourism mangers to meet the needs of the global and information-driven society through its majors program of study and research on the international tourism trends and industry management issues. The majors program specifically aims at cultivating the global minded tourism specialists for the regional society, i.e. Jeju Autonomous Province and Jeju International Free City.

To achieve the departmental goals, courses in general theory, tourism policy, tourism business management and its theory and practice, on-site practical lessons, particularly rigorous computer education and language training, are offered to train the tourism managers needed for the industry. The departmental curriculum is designed based on the tourism management courses and stringent training in secondary languages such as English, Japanese, and Chinese, etc. Native language speaking faculty members also help foster the language skills of the majors students.

Aims

The Department of Tourism Management aims at cultivating the specialists to meet the needs of the information-driven world in general and the tourism industry in particular. The department gets strong support from the university as its special strength building academic unit.

Careers

Upon satisfying the requirements, graduates of the departmental majors curriculum are eligible to earn various professional and practical certificates as business executives, tourism instructors, advertizement specialists, interpreters, hoteliers, computer experts. They also opt going on to further study in graduate schools here at home or abroad for eventual careers in teaching and research. They also earn teachers certificates for teaching at high schools as tourism teachers.

History

1973: Established the Tourism Development Majors

1979: Established the Department of Tourism

1987: Renamed as the Department of Tourism Management

1997: Open the night school in tourism

1990: Established master’s degree program, Graduate School of Management

1999: Established master’s degree program, Graduate College

2001: Institute Ph.D. degree program, Graduate College