The World Skills Competition (WSC) technology expands the vocational education new field of vision, shows the hospitality industry development frontier technology, points out the direction of professional teaching reform, plays a demonstration teaching role, guides the trend of professional skills development direction and the highest level. In-depth study of WSC conducive to promote the training objectives of hotel management professionals in line with the international standards and helps to improve the skills and comprehensive quality of talents in the hotel hospitality industry. This paper analyzes food and beverage service project contents of the WSC, competition standards, ability standards, and the connection with higher vocational hotel management courses, and puts forward the optimization strategy of training hotel management professionals based on WSC.

Yan Zeng. Discuss the Leading and Optimization Strategy of the World Competition Food and Beverage Service Project for Professional Talent Training. International Journal of Social Sciences and Economic Management (2024), Vol. 5, Issue 1: 42-49. https://doi.org/10.38007/IJSSEM.2024.050106.

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