Founded in 1960, under the direct jurisdiction of the Oversea Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council of China, Huaqiao University is one of the key universities of Chinese government, and also a comprehensive university that was one of the first common institutions of higher learning qualified evaluation of undergraduate teaching.

College of Tourism is established in 2004. Her predecessor, the Tourism Department of Huaqiao University, which started in 1984, was the one of the first eight tourism colleges with the approval of China Education ministry. The college is  the member unit of “ China’s top 10 tourism colleges”, and also the first school in China that recruits oversea undergraduate, graduate and PhD. Students. The present Dean is Prof. XIE Chaowu.

College of Tourism has a staff of 56 qualified faculty members. Among them 38 are full-time teachers, 32 professors and associate professors and 29 Doctors. Many teachers are also shouldering important social and academic responsibilities. Such as the Director and Secretary of Tourism management Education Committee of Higher Vocational Education of Education Ministry, member of National Tourism Graduate Degree Steering Committee, member of Food and Beverage and hospitality Higher Vocational Education Steering Committee, member of Tourism Geography Professional Committee of the Geographical Society of China,Vice-chairman of Education Branch of China Travel Organizers, Vice-chairman of Fujian travel Association etc.

College of Tourism has a complete personnel training system with one Doctorate program, three Master's programs, four bachelor's programs. Tourism management Doctorate program is one of the four doctoral disciplines II; tourism management bachelor's program is the national characteristic professionalism; higher vocational program is a state- level teaching reform major. Moreover, the College is also one of the first school that has been qualified to recruit MTA（Maters of Tourism Administration.

With a high the capacity for scientific research, School of Tourism  has 8 academies, such as Cross-Straight Travel Institute, Fujian and Macao institute and  Tourism Safety Institute, which was one of the first 5 institutes set up by Chinese Travel Academy, taking charge and completing nearly 40 provincial and ministerial projects.

Focusing on teaching, research and social service, College of Tourism has completed over 300 social projects in tourism planning, hotel management and industry development consultation. She also appointed some teachers to Ningde, Wuyi Mount, Xianyou, Taining, Meizhou Island, Pingtan International Tourism Island, Taining and other important tourist destination to hang duty, which as provided great intellectual support to local tourism industry. In 2012 and 2013, school and college signed a school-enterprise cooperation agreement with Xiamen Airlines Co., Ltd. and Xiamen Airlines Hotel Management Co., Ltd., starting a new mode of college-enterprise cooperation.

College of tourism also build a great relationship with some oversea colleges and enterprises. Many teacher have oversea study and visiting experiences, and many students have been send to macao tourism college, University of Guam, Dhurakij Pundit University, Chandrakasem Rajabhat University and some universities in Taiwan for exchange learning. In September 2014, we will establish english teaching classes to educate international tourism talents for the society.

Now we have nealy 1200 students, including 100 postgraduates, 142 oversea students and 80 ethnic minority students. We have cultivated nearly 3000 students in the last 30 years, including 600 overseas.

With the motto that “exploit the superiority, highlight the feature, lead in nation and go to the world” , the College of Tourism will try to be first class nationwide and world famous school .

(Oct. of 2020)