AI Empowering Tourism Education Reform: Reconstruction of Teaching Objectives and Redesigning of Teaching Processes

Abstract

Artificial intelligence technology is driving tourism education to undergo a profound transformation from the traditional "experience inheritance" model to a precise "data-driven decision-making" model. Based on multidisciplinary practical cases such as smart scenic area management, cultural tourism IP incubation, and cross-cultural service design, this paper creatively proposes a three-dimensional empowerment model of "objective reconstruction-process redesign-evaluation innovation." Through empirical research that integrates AI virtual tour guide training, intangible cultural heritage digitization, and hotel revenue management simulation, the paper systematically demonstrates the disruptive transformation that artificial intelligence technology brings to the paradigm of tourism talent cultivation. This paper aims to provide a systematic theoretical framework and actionable practical pathway for the digital transformation of tourism education in the new era, with the goal of cultivating compound industry elites who possess both cultural foundation and technological literacy.