erdEducation Reform and Development2652-53642652-5372Bio-Byword Scientific Publishing Pty. Ltd.10.26689/erd.v8i2.14168ArticleAn Analysis of the Paths for Vocational College Foreign Language Students to Empower the Development of Rural Cultural and Tourism Industryhttps://artdesignp.com/journal/erd/8/2/10.26689/erd.v8i2.14168ChenLicheng2026822026-03-11In recent years, with the steady advancement of the upgrading and transformation of the rural cultural and tourism industry, the demand for high-quality foreign language talents has become increasingly urgent. As the main base for delivering talents to society, higher vocational colleges take the initiative to shoulder their educational responsibilities, adopt effective measures to optimize the foreign language teaching model, and enable foreign language teaching to better empower the development of the rural cultural and tourism industry. This can not only solve the core pain points in the development of the rural cultural and tourism industry, realize the accurate connection between talent training and rural needs, and promote the connotative development and value upgrading of foreign language teaching, thereby comprehensively improving the overall quality of foreign language students, but also implement the rural revitalization strategy and boost the high-quality development of regional economies. In this regard, this paper first expounds the significance of vocational college foreign language students empowering the development of the rural cultural and tourism industry, and then puts forward a series of effective development paths, aiming to provide certain references for relevant researchers.

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