新时期高校旅游人才培养的思考

新时期我国旅游业面临良好发展机遇,发展需要一大批国际化、专业化的高素质旅游人才。面对新形势、新特点,高校应创新人才培养模式,深化教育教学改革,加快旅游人才的培养,为旅游业加速发展提供人才和智力支撑。     

我国旅游企业人才需求及培养探索

随着我国旅游业的持续健康发展,市场对旅游人才提出了新的要求,人才质量已经成为我国旅游业可持续发展的重要保障因素.本文根据我国旅游企业人才需求的主要特点,对我国旅游人才的培养进行相关分析,就我国旅游人才培养提出了几点建议.     

共同治理视野下的中外合作办学模式研究——基于“利益相关者”理论

我国旅游产业的飞速发展对旅游职业院校的人才培养提出了新的要求——国际化旅游人才.旅游职业院校的国际合作办学是培养国际化人才的主要途径.本文基于“利益相关者”理论,分析旅游职业院校中外合作办学的各个利益相关方及其角色,提出建立“共同治理”的新的合作办学模式.     

山东省旅游业发展现状分析及对策研究

为了促进山东省旅游业的健康有序发展,采用比较法和调查问卷法,分析了山东省旅游业发展的现状及存在问题,提出了加快发展山东省旅游业的对策,认为基本对策是挖掘具有重要历史文化价值的旅游资源,中长期发展对策是重视高端旅游人才的培养、区域旅游产业一体化发展、打造特色乡村民俗旅游品牌。     

《国际市场营销》双语教学改革的实践与思考

"双语教学"作为教育国际化战略的一部分,是高等教育与国际接轨、吸收和借鉴国外先进文化的桥梁与纽带,是本土化培养"复合型、应用性"国际化人才的必然选择.本文基于国际市场营销课程双语教学的必要性,结合教学实践,从教学模式、教学效果评价等方面展开论述.     

福州市旅游人才培养方法纠偏以及方法探究

作为国家历史文化名城的福州,旅游业迅猛发展,对旅游人才的培养即是机遇又是挑战。本文就福州旅游业发展现状和人才的缺失进行分析,对专业化建设旅游人才的培养提出解决方案及建议。     

财经院校旅游管理专硕人才培养模式创新与实践研究

以OBE理念为导向,聚集旅游业管理与规划、旅游投融资、数字文旅三大培养方向,着力服务地方文化和旅游产业高质量发展,充分凸显了突出财经特色、推进产教融合、强化数字融通、培育双创人才4个方面的人才培养特色,构建了财经院校特性的产教学研一体化培养体系。培育了一批面向旅游产业实践的高层次专门人才,形成了具有明显财经类院校特色的旅游管理专业硕士人才培养的新模式。     

拉萨发展生态旅游的优劣势分析及对策建议

发展生态旅游对促进拉萨地区经济社会发展具有重要作用,也对保障国家生态系统具有关键意义。将拉萨(七县一区)打造成具有高原特色和民族特色的国际旅游目的地,生态化、民族化、国际化应该成为拉萨生态旅游业发展方向。文章就拉萨发展生态旅游的优劣势进行分析,以期促进旅游业科学规划、有序发展,造福地方发展。     

以就业为导向的高校旅游管理专业人才培养策略

本文针对目前国内旅游业高级管理人才匮乏与高校旅游管理专业人才＂潜流失＂这一旅游业人才供需矛盾的现象,参考香港理工大学酒店及旅游业管理学院的办学经验,提出以就业为导向的高校旅游管理专业人才培养策略。     

浅析旅游人才培养应如何适应旅游业发展

目前我国的旅游业人力资源面临着学历层次偏低,高级旅游管理人才缺乏的问题,人才的培养已成当务之急。文章分析了我国的旅游人才培养现状,旅游业人才需求现状继而对我国旅游人才培养模式进行了初步探索。     

Students' Reactions to the Introduction of Videoconferencing for Classroom Instruction

This study examined how students who had no prior experience with videoconferencing would react to the use of videoconferencing as an instructional medium. Students enrolled in seven different courses completed a questionnaire at the beginning of the semester and again at the end of the semester. Students at the origination and remote sites did not differ in their reactions toward videoconferencing but there was a significant difference for gender. Women reacted less favorably to videoconferencing. Compared to the beginning of the semester, students reported significantly less positive attitudes toward taking a course through videoconferencing at the end of the semester. There were no significant differences in students' attitudes toward videoconferencing across courses at the beginning of the semester but there were significant differences across the courses at the end of the semester. The results suggest the need for better preparation for both students and instructors.     

Cooler temperatures inductive to locust outbreaks

Ajoint study by Prof. ZHANG Zhibin from the CAS Institute of Zoology and his co-workers from Norway, US and Swiss have indicated that historical outbreaks of migratory locusts in China were associated with cold spells, suggesting that China＇s projected climate warming could decrease the pest＇s numbers. The study was published in Proceedings of theNational Academy of Sciences on 17 September, 2007.     

Exploring Multiplexity: Social Network Structures in a Computer-Supported Distance Learning Class

A computer-mediated group is a complex entity whose members exchange many types of information via multiple means of communication in pursuit of goals specific to their environment. Over time, they coordinate technical features of media with locally enacted use to achieve a viable working arrangement. To explore this complex interaction, a case study is presented of the social networks of interactions and media use among members of a class of computer-supported distance learners. Results show how group structures associated with project teams dominated who communicated with whom, about what, and via which media over the term, and how media came to occupy their own communication niches: Webboard for diffuse class-wide communication; Internet Relay Chat more to named others but still for general communication across the class; and e-mail primarily for intrateam communication. Face-to-face interaction, occurring only during a short on-campus session, appears to have had a catalytic effect on social and emotional exchanges. Results suggest the need to structure exchanges to balance class-wide sharing of ideas with subgroup interactions that facilitate project completion, and to provide media that support these two modes of interaction.     

To serve and promote science development via innovation

CAS should stick to the principle of rendering service to, and giving impetus for, the development of China＇s science enterprise by making S＆T innovations, said CAS President LU Yongxiang. The CAS president made the remarks in a recent talk to communicate the gist of the winter session of the Party＇s Leading-member Group at CAS, which was held from 7 to 11 January in Beijing.     

Tracing the origin and early radiation of birds——Paleornithologist ZHOU Zhonghe

With great care, Dr. ZHOU Zhonghe takes out a package wrapped by cotton tissue from a drawer and says: "This is the gem of our collections: the fossil of a bird that lived 125 million years ago!" Then, pointing at a tiny mound, he explains: "Look, this is the claw and that is the head. It was in the egg shell and ready to hatch ... The species fell into a family of waterside inhabitants."     

The Role of Intermediating Institutions in the Diffusion of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI): How Industry Associations Intervened in Denmark, Finland, and Hong Kong

Electronic data interchange (EDI) provides means for interorganizational communication, creates network externalities, requires an advanced information technology (IT) infrastructure, and relies on standards. In the diffusion of such innovations, institutional involvement is imperative. Such institutions contain governmental agencies, national and global standardization organizations, local government, and nonprofit private organizations like industry associations. The last type of organizations we call intermediating institutions. They intermediate or coordinate ("inscribe") the activities of a group of would-be adopters. Unfortunately, little is known of how these organizations shape the EDI diffusion trajectory. In this article we examine one specific type of intermediating organizations?industry associations?and how they advanced the EDI diffusion process in the grocery sectors of Hong Kong, Denmark and Finland. We identify six institutional measures, placed into a matrix formed by the mode of involvement (influence vs. regulation) and the type of diffusion force (supply push vs. demand pull), that can be mobilized to further the EDI diffusion. Industry associations were found to be active users of all these measures to varying degrees. Their role was critical especially in knowledge building, knowledge deployment, and standard setting. Furthermore, institutional involvement varied due to policy and cultural contingencies and power dependencies.     

How Electronic Publishers are Protecting Against Piracy: Doubts About Technical Systems of Protection

The increasing prospects of digital piracy has prompted the perceived need by electronic publishers to adopt technical systems of protection, and governments to reform their copyright laws. This article is a preliminary study of the management of intellectual property by electronic publishers, defined as those involved in the production of online databases, and CD-ROMs. It focuses on three main issues: (1) how electronic publishers view the increasing threat of piracy; (2) the methods of protection employed to protect intellectual property in digital format; and (3) the importance of technological protection of intellectual property in electronic publications. The analysis is based on a sample of 23 UK electronic publishers. The interviews revealed an interesting assortment of protection methods and did not show that technological protection was a preferred way. Instead, the means of protection, in addition to copyright law, comprised niche markets, pricing, trust, bad publicity, and nontechnical and technical means.     

Rough Justice: A Statistical Assessment of ICANN's Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy

Long-standing conflict between domain name registrants and trademark holders prompted the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to create a global, mandatory arbitration procedure known as the Uniform Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP). The UDRP has been used in 2166 cases involving 3938 domain names as of 1 November 2000. The policy gives the initiator of a complaint, generally a trademark holder, the right to choose which ICANN-accredited dispute resolution service provider (RSP) will handle the case. During the preparation of the UDRP,some feared that complainant selection would lead to "forum shopping" that might bias the results. This article performs a statistical assessment of the forum-shopping thesis and finds support for it. There are statistically significant differences in the various RSPs' propensity to take away names from defendants; there are also major differences in the number of cases brought to each RSP. RSPs who take away names have the larger share of cases. The study examines other variables that might explain differences in market share, such as price, the plaintiff's nationality, or the time taken to decide a case. It finds that nationality and time also are correlated with market share. The study concludes that shopping for a favorable outcome is an important factor in the UDRP.     

Prevalence of soft neurological signs in Chinese people

Prof. Raymond C.K. Chen, a neuropsychologist with the CAS Institute of Psychology, has made novel progress in his studies of schizophrenia. His work has been reported by a recent issue of Behavioural Neurology.     

Our Own Devices: Heterotopic Communication, Discourse, and Culture in the Information Society 1

The main premise of this article is that in information societies generally, and in virtual social contexts particularly, a distinctive style of interaction to facilitate the communication of difference, heterotopic communication , has emerged. It rests on two cultural foundations: an ideological belief in the positive, socially integrating power of communication, and a prevailing ethic of instrumental rationality, subjective individualism, and strategically practiced self-interest. The former is demonstrated by the use of simulation and spectacle as sources of information; exhibitionism/voyeurism as a communicative style; and the awareness of surveillance. The latter is seen in the competitive use of knowledge as a commodity; a surface globalism masking deep parochialism; lateral as well as vertical information inequity; and the use of public versus private as strategies for engagement rather than as spaces. Those who engage in heterotopic communication resort to their 'own devices' both in the sense of personal agendas, strategies, interests, and interpretations, and in the form of the telecommunication tools that help realize them. These personal and technological devices allow individuals with the right educational and technical resources to avoid exposure to disagreement, difference, or other information that does not serve their direct purposes or reflect their particular views of the world; yet they also help convey the appearance of openness, availability, and cooperation. This style of interaction is used strategically in combination with information and communication technologies to gain social or economic advantages, but it may encourage social separatism and parochialism, inhibit the negotiation of disputes, and emphasize competing interests.