Author(s)

Yinghui Li

Corresponding Author

Yinghui Li

Abstract

The digital transformation of Tourism English major is of great significance to the development of the tourism industry. Cultivating tourism English talents with digital literacy skills will bring vigor and vitality to the development and innovation of tourism industry. Exploring effective strategies of digital transformation in Tourism English major from three aspects: teachers, textbooks, and teaching methods can help teachers establish new concepts of digital teaching, enhance their digital awareness and application competence, improve students' comprehensive abilities such as digital literacy, innovation ability, problem-solving ability, and communication ability, so as to adapt to the changes and requirements brought by the development of digital technology to tourism industry positions, and promote their employment competitiveness. This article takes the Tourism English major of Shandong College of Tourism and Hospitality as an example, and try to find out effective paths and strategies for the digital transformation of Tourism English major by focusing on enhancing the digital awareness and dual-qualification quality of the teachers, developing digital textbooks based on school-enterprise cooperation, promoting self-learning and personalized teaching under the digital learning environment, building up core courses digital resources network, and applying mobile digital technology to improve teaching effectiveness and evaluation, and so on.

Keywords

Digital Transformation, Tourism English, “Three Reforms of Education”