A Study of the Characteristics of the Emotional Intelligence for Interns of Tourism Management Major

By using Emotional Intelligence Scale(EIS),this paper conducted a questionnaire survey to investigate the emotional intelligence problems for interns of the tourism management major. The results show that:significant differences exist in terms of gender and the management of others' emotion;there are no significant differences in terms of education and homeplace;significant differences in emotion perception existing in tourism professional interns differs in whether they are the only one-child;there are significant differences in terms of emotional perception and emotional management of others. To improve tourism professional interns' emotional intelligence,schools,enterprises and students themselves should work hard together.