"National Premium Tour Guide" is the highest level of the tour guide level series recognized by the National Ministry of Culture and Tourism. Only 16 tour guides from 13 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities, have been awarded the National special tour Guide in 2021 National Special Tour Guide evaluation released by the Office of the National Tour Guide Evaluation Committee. Up to now, there are only 40 special tour guides nationwide. Liu Yanhong, an associate professor from the Department of Leisure Tourism of our college, finally won the national premium level English tour guide after seven-month preparation of application. She passed the selection based on municipal, provincial and national levels step by step and experienced three levels of defense. She becomes the first and only one in Guangdong Province.

Prof. Liu Yanhong is the principal of the first batch of national first-class undergraduate practice courses "Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Cultural Tourism Industry". She has been the principal investigator of four provincial projects and had published more than 40 academic papers. She guided students to participate in the national College students' Red Tourism Creative Planning Competition, summer practice "three trips to the countryside", and other activities, where the students visited and conducted surveys in 10 provinces and 25 cities, and won three national awards. 213 students obtained the national tour guide certificate, of which 88% were English language holders, under her supervision. She has built the campus tour guide team to receive 6,185 Chinese and foreign visitors from 24 countries and regions such as Britain and France, which received good reputation from all works of life.

Our college has always attached great importance to the close combination of teaching and practice, theory and practice. The awarding of national premium English tour Guide will play a positive role in promoting the deep integration of sports and tourism in the future.