A Study on the Combination of Intercultural Communication and Tourism English Education

Abstract

With the success of a series of grand events in China, the demand for tourism talents has gradually changed from a purely professional skills type to a compound type with an international perspective, cross-cultural awareness and ability. Each tourism college and university also needs to follow this -Changes to strengthen the cultivation of students' comprehensive ability. Recently, the basic English of colleges emphasized the goal of "cultivation of intercultural communication skills" in the outline, and for tourism majors with strong foreign affairs, the cultivation of intercultural communication skills should also be put it on the agenda. The teaching of tourism English courses has played an important role in the cultivation of its ability, and the teaching of tourism English courses is also facing reforms. How to train students to be advanced with both professional tourism knowledge, international awareness and strong communication skills? Talents have become the focus of reform. Therefore, the author develops the theory of cross-cultural communicative competence, clarifies the basis and principles for developing cross-cultural communicative competence in tourism English teaching, and builds on the elements of cross-cultural communicative competence of authoritative experts to construct a suitable for tourism.