Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan
University of Science and Technology won the second prize in the 2017 Cross-Strait Tourism Elite Fair.

Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology participated in the 2017 Cross-Strait Elite Tourist Fair, organized by ROC Tour Planning & Design Association. The team “Transferred Students Union,” directed by Prof. Ying-Ren Pan, won the second prize with their tour planning “Explore Formosa, Enjoying its Flora and Fauna, Love the Beautiful Island of Taiwan.”

【“Transferred Students Union” from Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won the 2017 Cross-Strait Elite Tourist Fair.】

The contest of Cross-Strait Tourism Elite Cup has been held for six consecutive years. This year, nearly five hundred teams from all over Taiwan came to the preliminary contest to win the four titles of different districts and the ticket to the final. More mainland universities came to join the Tourism Elite Cup, creating a cross-strait tourism platform for youth exchange to promote domestic and foreign planning and design for professional training and planning. Tourism and related industries can thus be developed; professionals in the industry of individual travel planning and design can also be enhanced.

【Cover of the briefing by Transferred Students Union: “Explore Formosa, Enjoying its Flora and Fauna, Love the Beautiful Island of Taiwan”】

The award-winning works “Explore Formosa, Enjoying its Flora and Fauna, Love the Beautiful Island of Taiwan” is based on three colors--gold, red, and green—for their creative ideas. The colors gold, red, and green represent enjoyment, achievement, and compliment, respectively. When integrated with the target object, they created a tour plan that is colorful, attractive, incentive travel, coupled with vivid performances and adapted to the song "Love to come, come to Taiwan!" The guitar solo and singing stunned the audience and helped the team stand out and win the first prize.

【“Transferred Students Union” from Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won the 2017 Cross-Strait Elite Tourist Fair: their briefing performance.】

The competition is based on incentive tourism, which is different from the general tourism planning. Such an incentive travel needs to accommodate thousands of people and therefore requires more professional planning and arrangement. It does not only include itinerary planning, the event arrangement, the theme dinner design; professional control skills in implementation of large-scale meetings throughout the process are required, while there should be an integration of Taiwan's specialties, multi-cultures, and well-known attractions. As a student working in the field of leisure and entertainment, each must devoted his or her future to tourism and leisure industry. Everyone will have to learn their own run, carry forward their favorite expertise, hoping that they can plan for more different tours and make more people understand the beauty of Taiwan.

【“Transferred Students Union” from Department of Leisure, Recreation, and Tourism Management, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology won the 2017 Cross-Strait Elite Tourist Fair: all the team members at the venue with the theme props.】

President Chien Tai of Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology stressed that in order to seek convergence with the industry and understand the focus of personnel training, the school has been actively counseling students outside the practice, helping them understand the workplace ecology, encouraging teachers to use their own professional knowledge to lead the students.