為了響應中國中央政府大力發展職業學院教育的戰略決策精神，讓中國的大學教育和人才培養更接地氣，本月14日，世界酒店聯盟和湖北咸寧職業技術學院在湖北咸寧市正式簽署合作，并決定將“世界酒店聯盟商學院華中教育基地”落戶在“咸寧職業技術學院”，并共同在旅游管理、酒店管理、航空服務、國際交流等專業領域為世界酒店聯盟旗下成員企業和關聯單位培養高素質和實用性很強的人才。兩家單位還就其他有關高端資源利用，國際化渠道合作和著名企業共建及名家援助等方面達成了高度共識。兩家單位第一個合作期為十年，并致力在中國職業學院教育方面做成中外業界矚目的典范。在雙方簽署合作當日，世界酒店聯盟主席吳軍林被特聘為“湖北咸寧職業技術學院名譽院長”。
【鏈接】咸寧職業技術學院簡介
咸寧職業技術學院是經湖北省人民政府批準、國家教育部備案的一所綜合性公辦高職院校。學校所在地——咸寧市，被列為首批全國旅游標準化5個試點城市之一，是享譽中華大地的“香城泉都”，自然環境十分優美。學校面街臨河，擁山抱水，松茂竹盛，繁花序時，是求知治學的理想之地，被評為全國職業教育先進單位、省級文明單位、省級園林式單位、省級平安校園、省級依法治校示范校。
學校始建于1965年，原華中農學院咸寧分院自1976年以來一直從事�？茖哟蔚钠胀ǜ叩冉逃�。1984年被省政府確定為“湖北省中職學校師資培養培訓基地”，1999年被省政府列為“全省首批試點高職院校”。獨特的歷史奠定了學校堅實的辦學基礎。學校占地面積1086畝，建筑面積37萬平方米，設有12個二級院部，教職員工1200余人，全日制在校生15000余人，館藏圖書118萬冊，固定資產總值5億多元。
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”.