Empowering Tourism Management Undergraduate Students Through City-Level Industry-Education Consortiums A Pathway Study on Cultivating Practical Innovation Capabilities

As the tourism industry undergoes transformation and upgrading, the application of new technologies and shifts in market environments demand higher standards from tourism professionals. Multidisciplinary talents equipped with practical skills and innovative spirit have become urgently needed in the sector. The "Municipal Industry-Education Consortium," a collaborative education platform led by the government and involving multiple stakeholders such as enterprises and educational institutions, plays a crucial role in cultivating the practical innovation capabilities of vocational undergraduate students in tourism management. This paper explores the essence of practical innovation-oriented tourism talent, proposing that current cultivation should shift from skill transmission to knowledge ecosystem construction, from scenario simulation to practice-community participation, and from single-dimensional evaluation to competency-oriented multi-stakeholder assessment mechanisms. Consequently, it constructs a mechanism and pathway for cultivating practical innovation capabilities in tourism management through city-level industry-education consortiums. This includes establishing a "module-project-progression" curriculum system, a four-tier progressive practice teaching system "foundation-specialization-application-innovation/entrepreneurship", and a "multi-stakeholder, full-process assessment" evaluation and feedback mechanism.