About the university
Shandong College of Tourism and Hospitality(SCTH) has gone through 30 years since its establishment situated in Yanzi Mountain in —. With China’s reform and opening up in the 1980s, the development of tourism was surging.
With the guidance of the sonorous oath to “create Shandong’s own tourism school” in —, the Shandong Provincial Tourism School, the original name of SCTH, was built at the foot of Yanzi Mountain by the Pipa Spring. Focusing on the core issue of “what kind of talents to cultivate and how to cultivate the talents”, SCTH supports the development of Shandong tourism, influencing that of the whole country and even the whole world. Fostering virtue through education as the basic task, SCTH conscientiously implements the educational policy of the Party and the country. With wisdom and the spirit of pioneering, innovation and exploration, the school has developed at a breathtaking pace.
In —, SCTH was officially recruited and there are 90 students in the first batch. In —, it was upgraded into a public college level and officially entered the field of higher vocational education. In —, it was relocated to the new campus of Zhangqiu University Town in Jinan and the operating conditions were significantly improved. In —, awarded the “Five-Star Diamond Award”, the highest honor in the world service industry by the American Academy of Quality Service Science, SCTH becomes the only educational institution in the world to receive this award; In —, SCTH, with the five best tourism colleges in China, initiated the establishment of the “Five-star Alliance of Chinese Tourism Colleges”, the Chinese Tourism Education Ivy League. In —, it was selected as one of the first batch of Shandong Provincial Skill-oriented Colleges and become a major college in Shandong higher vocational education. In —, it was awarded the title of National Advanced Vocational College, and has a due influence in the national higher vocational education field. In —, the college has been successfully named Shandong High Quality Higher Vocational College in Construction Project, entering a new stage of high-quality development.
Over the past 30 years, SCTH has developed by following the rules of tourism industy and vocational education and formed its own unique spiritual value system. Insisting on combination of market orientation and international education standard, the college creates a unique value system of seven major concepts under the guidance of college motto with distinctive tourism characteristics. The seven major concepts include the following. The SCTH motto of “Happiness is our vacation”. The SCTH orientation of “The cradle of modern tourism elites”. The SCTH mission of “Educate students to learn to know, learn to do, learn to live together, and learn to be”. The SCTH spirit of “Service-oriented”. The SCTH temperament of “we are gentlemen and ladies, we cultivate gentlemen and ladies”. The SCTH quality of “professional spirit, professional quality, professional skills”. The SCTH vision of "building domestic first-class, world-renowned tourism academy characterized with internationalization, humanization, digitization and ecologicalization”. In the construction of campus culture, with the pursuit of inclusiveness, SCTH integrates service culture, vocational education culture, red culture, Qilu culture, spring water culture, and international advanced culture into college culture, which are widely praised by all walks of life. Those advanced ideas have contributed SCTH to a fast track in various fields as powerful as an engine
Since its foundation more than 30 years ago, SCTH has won many proud “firsts” and the only college in the world that has won the international “Five-Star Diamond Award”, the highest honor in the world’s service industry;
It is a college with a four-star internship hotel on campus;
It is a college with a large golf driving range on campus;
It is a college with an AAA-level campus scenic spot;
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