전문대 관광학과(전공)의 경쟁력 향상을 위한 방안

Study of Factors of Effective Management of Tourism Departments in 2-year Colleges

For the last 5 years there has been a massive increase of 200% in terms of the number of Tourism Departments without considering the balance between need and supply in the tourism industry. Recently, the problems have been due to the rapid decrease in the number of students and the faded economy, which has resulted in weak business in tourism industries. Therefore, this article provides the factors which can overcome the uncertainly of future employment for tourism students and improve the program and training system in the department. These factors will allow students to concentrate in an area, have support interest groups in their majors, systemize educational technologies, supply information technologies, develop faculties' abilities of using IT, offer further education opportunities to faculty, develop internship programs, and train students' to have skills to fit which meet the needs of industries.