山东旅游职业学院前身是1988年由国家旅游局和山东省人民政府共同投资建设的山东省旅游学校，1991年正式招生办学，2004年升格为专科层次全日制普通高等学校，实行省教育厅与省文化和旅游厅双重领导、以省文化和旅游厅为主的管理体制。学校以立德树人为根本使命，校训为“我们的天职是创造幸福”，愿景是建设“人文化、生态化、数字化、国际化，国内一流、世界知名的旅游学院”，坚持与行业接轨及为社会用人和学生就业成才服务的发展方向，教学质量与办学特色获社会认可。

The predecessor of Shandong College of Tourism and Hospitality was Shandong Tourism School, jointly invested and established by the National Tourism Administration and Shandong Provincial People's Government in 1988. It officially started enrolling students in 1991 and was upgraded to a full-time ordinary higher vocational college at the junior college level in 2004. It is under the dual leadership of the Provincial Department of Education and the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism, with the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism as the main administrative body. The school takes moral education as its fundamental mission, with the school motto "Our bounden duty is to create happiness" and the vision of building a "humanistic, ecological, digital, international, first-class domestic and world-renowned tourism college". It adheres to the development direction of integrating with the industry and serving social employment and students' career development, and its teaching quality and school-running characteristics have been recognized by the society.

该校是山东省名校建设工程首批技能型特色名校、山东省优质高职院校，近两年获各级各类荣誉30余项。学校位于济南市章丘大学城（国家AAA级旅游景区），占地近67.3万平方米，校舍建筑面积24.5万余平方米，拥有80多个教学实训场所，办学条件优良。深化产教融合，与多家企业合作提升学生职业竞争力，自1991年以来共培养毕业生4万余名，培训旅游业在职人员8万多人，近年用人单位需求量与毕业生数量比例保持在5:1至8:1。

The college is among the first batch of skill-oriented characteristic universities in Shandong Provincial Famous School Construction Project and a high-quality higher vocational college in Shandong Province. It has won more than 30 honors at all levels in recent two years. Located in Zhangqiu University Town of Jinan (a national AAA-level tourist attraction), the school covers an area of nearly 673,000 square meters with a school building area of over 245,000 square meters. It has more than 80 teaching and training venues, providing excellent school-running conditions. Deepening the integration of industry and education, it has cooperated with many enterprises to enhance students' professional competitiveness. Since 1991, the school has trained more than 40,000 graduates and trained over 80,000 in-service personnel in the tourism industry. In recent years, the ratio of employer demand to the number of graduates has remained between 5:1 and 8:1.