为了响应中国中央政府大力发展职业学院教育的战略决策精神，让中国的大学教育和人才培养更接地气，本月14日，世界酒店联盟和湖北咸宁职业技术学院在湖北咸宁市正式签署合作，并决定将“世界酒店联盟商学院华中教育基地”落户在“咸宁职业技术学院”，并共同在旅游管理、酒店管理、航空服务、国际交流等专业领域为世界酒店联盟旗下成员企业和关联单位培养高素质和实用性很强的人才。两家单位还就其他有关高端资源利用，国际化渠道合作和著名企业共建及名家援助等方面达成了高度共识。两家单位第一个合作期为十年，并致力在中国职业学院教育方面做成中外业界瞩目的典范。在双方签署合作当日，世界酒店联盟主席吴军林被特聘为“湖北咸宁职业技术学院名誉院长”。
【链接】咸宁职业技术学院简介
咸宁职业技术学院是经湖北省人民政府批准、国家教育部备案的一所综合性公办高职院校。学校所在地——咸宁市，被列为首批全国旅游标准化5个试点城市之一，是享誉中华大地的“香城泉都”，自然环境十分优美。学校面街临河，拥山抱水，松茂竹盛，繁花序时，是求知治学的理想之地，被评为全国职业教育先进单位、省级文明单位、省级园林式单位、省级平安校园、省级依法治校示范校。
学校始建于1965年，原华中农学院咸宁分院自1976年以来一直从事专科层次的普通高等教育。1984年被省政府确定为“湖北省中职学校师资培养培训基地”，1999年被省政府列为“全省首批试点高职院校”。独特的历史奠定了学校坚实的办学基础。学校占地面积1086亩，建筑面积37万平方米，设有12个二级院部，教职员工1200余人，全日制在校生15000余人，馆藏图书118万册，固定资产总值5亿多元。
Educational Cooperation has Completed: WHA Signed Officially with Hubei Xianning Vocational Technical College
In order to respond to the strategic decision-making spirit of Central Government of China, to help Chinese university education and talent cultivation boot on the ground, World Hotel Association(WHA) and Hubei Xianning Vocational Technical College finished an official signature for cooperation on April 14th, as well as decided to set up “Business College of WHA——a Central China Educational Base” in “Xianning Vocational Technical College” and to cultivate talents with high-quality and practicability in fields like tourism management, hotel management, air service, international exchange and so on for member firms and relevant units of WHA jointly. The two units also reached a remarkable degree of consensus on relevant usage of high-end resources, cooperation of internationalization channel, co-construction of famous businesses, assistance of celebrities, etc. The first term of the cooperation between WHA and Xianning Vocational Technical College will last for 10 years, during which the two units are to dedicated themselves to be models drawing attention of the industry both at home and abroad in aspect of Chinese professional schooling. At the same day of signing an agreement, Mr. Wu Jinlin, chairman of WHA, was specially appointed as “Dean Emeritus of Hubei Xianning Vocational Technical College”.