Brief Introduction

MTA—Master of Tourism Administration is an education program for the professional degree that cultivates the high-end application-oriented and multi-ability talents for tourism management. The MTA program for the international students of GUT aims at highlighting the characteristics of internationalization, application orientation and professionalism through implementing the internationalized and socialized education strategy; cultivating high-end, application-oriented tourism management talents whom are equipped with the high sense of social responsibility, innovation ability, tourism professional quality, bearing the global perspective, cross-culture communication competence, strong strategic thinking and implementation abilities, and meeting the actual working requirements of the modern tourism and the relevant industries, in order for developing the tourism industry of China and ASEAN countries. Guilin University of Technology (GUT) was one of the 56 domestic universities that are firstly designated to set up MTA by the Ministry of Education of the PRC in 2010; in 2011, the actual enrollment number of MTA reached 39, which ranked top among the domestic universities.