There are 4 teaching and training centers in the college, with a total of 36 training places, including 6 operating places, including college hotels, water bars, supermarkets, student travel agencies, advertising production companies, etc., all of which are planned, organized and operated by students. According to the actual needs of travel agencies and hotels, special teachers such as Buddhist Grottoes, Ancient Buildings, Streets and Alleys of Ming and Qing Dynasties, Ancestor Culture and Foreign Language Situations are set up in the training places to ensure the consistency between teaching and actual posts. Among them, "Hotel Training Center" and "Tourism Management Training Center" are demonstration bases for practical teaching in higher vocational colleges in Shanxi Province, and "Tourism Management Training Center" is also a professional construction project supported by the central government. The college organizes students' field training twice a year, namely Wutai Mountain and Pingyao. Every year, a holiday tour guide class of 150-200 people is offered, and the way of "teacher training, enterprise expert training, on-site training and on-the-job internship" is adopted to let some students take the lead in employment.
The College has established 186 off-campus practice bases with 35 regions and cities in China, actively exploring international cooperation in running schools and foreign school-enterprise cooperation, absorbing international advanced educational concepts and utilizing foreign advanced educational resources. The college has successively established cooperative relations with industries, enterprises and universities in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Mexico, the United States, Germany and other countries for internship and further study. In 2007, we exchanged foreign students with Korean universities for the first time.
Colleges can make full use of social resources to help students combine the study of professional skills with the development of service tourism during their school days. At the first and second Taiyuan Coal Expo, the good quality of students in our college was highly praised by the organizing Committee; In Taiyuan 2008BMX International BMX Competition, our students provided volunteer service in small languages for athletes, which was well received by people from all walks of life.
Our college pays close attention to the training and assessment of basic skills. Taiyuan Tourism Vocational College strives to go beyond the teaching norms to conduct school-based curriculum research, organize teachers to conduct on-the-spot special research, collect the latest information of disciplines and industries, and compile 15 practical teaching materials that meet the actual needs of students and the tourism needs of our province. A vocational teaching structure characterized by application, practicality and creativity and a vocational teaching mode combining academic qualifications with certificates, learning with practice and knowledge with skills are constructed, which strengthens students' quality.
Since its establishment, the College has adhered to the service-oriented, employment-oriented higher vocational school-running concept and the school-running ideas of high-standard training, high-standard training and high-quality employment, complied with the good situation of the rapid development of tourism, and constantly strengthened the connotation construction of the College, and its school-running benefits have been recognized by the industry and society. In the quadrennial tour guide competition in 2006, teachers and students of our college stood out from 8000 contestants and won the championship and runner-up. In the same year, our college ranked first in the tour guide qualification examination of more than 50 colleges and universities; In 2007, the students of our college won the first prize in the province's oral English competition; In 2008, college students took the computer grade examination in Shanxi Vocational College and won the third place in the province. All the graduates in the past three years have been arranged by the college for internships and recommended employment, and the employment rate is 100%. Many media, such as China Tourism News, China Education News, China Vocational Education, Shanxi Workers News and Taiyuan Daily, made special reports on the talent training in our college.