Research on the Integration of Teaching and Research: Cultivation Path of the Transformation Ability of Teachers in Culture and Tourism

Abstract

Under the policy framework of Guangdong Province's "High-Quality Development Project for Hundreds of Counties, Thousands of Towns, and Tens of Thousands of Villages" and the "Double Hundred Initiative" in higher education institutions, the implementation of rural revitalization strategies and the high-quality development of county-level cultural tourism economies have significantly increased demand for interdisciplinary talents with both theoretical depth and practical innovation capabilities. However, current applied undergraduate institutions' cultural tourism faculty face challenges such as theoretical-practical disconnection and weak research-to-education conversion capabilities, which hinder the efficiency of the "Double Hundred Initiative". Taking Zhaoqing University as a case study, this research establishes an "Integration of Research and Teaching" model to explore pathways for cultivating faculty's research-to-education conversion capabilities: breaking the inertia of "research-heavy but teaching-light" through a "mutually recognized" system for teaching-research integration; promoting bidirectional convergence between industrial practice and research topics, as well as transforming research outcomes into teaching resources; and building collaborative innovation platforms for teachers and students to form a closed-loop chain of "industrial practice → research topics → teaching content → innovation and entrepreneurship projects". This model significantly enhances faculty's research capabilities and students' innovation and entrepreneurship skills, providing replicable experiences for applied undergraduate institutions to serve the high-quality development of local cultural tourism economies.