Development of a Chinese Tourism Technical Word List Based on Corpus Analysis

“Chinese + Tourism” is an important subfield of the current research area of “Chinese +” vocational education. This article focuses on the vocational skills training of “Chinese + Tourism”, targeting both domestic and foreign tourism practitioners. To accomplish this goal, a Chinese tourism corpus was constructed, and a series of methods including text classification, relevant word frequency theory, vocabulary distribution range, and term frequency-inverse document frequency were employed to design a technical word list construction process. Through human intervention, a sequenced Chinese Tourism Technical Word List (CTTWL) containing 542 words has been developed. This word list is mainly composed of nouns, verbs, and adjectives, with a coverage rate of 11.05% in domain texts. Compared to the HSK (Tourism), although its text coverage rate is 16.59%, it includes 4,674 vocabulary words. In addition, the coverage rate of CTTWL in general texts is less than 1%, indicating that the word list developed in this article covers most professional vocabulary in the text with fewer words. CTTWL can provide vocabulary references for Chinese tour guide training, and tourism Chinese skills teaching and learning.