With the deep integration of the digital economy and new quality productive forces, data has become a core element driving tourism transformation and achieving high-quality development. This trend poses severe challenges to the talent cultivation models in tourism management programs at higher education institutions. Currently, tourism big data education??faces multiple challenges, including outdated concepts lagging behind industry practices, a curriculum system disconnected from technological advancements, teaching models rigidly adhering to traditional lectures, industry-education integration remaining superficial, and evaluation mechanisms struggling to measure comprehensive competencies. These issues have resulted in a significant structural gap between talent supply and industry demands. This paper adopts "Data-Driven Tourism Innovation" as its core concept and systematically constructs a "Four-Core-Driven" talent cultivation theoretical framework integrating "knowledge-ability-thinking-competence," while proposing a new teaching reform paradigm based on the fundamental principles of "demand orientation, competency-based, scenario-driven, and ethics integration." On this basis, the paper systematically designs a progressive curriculum system featuring "platform-based foundations, modular cores, and project-based applications," explores an immersive teaching model characterized by "virtual-real integration and industry-education collaboration," and optimizes a comprehensive evaluation system emphasizing "process orientation and multi-stakeholder participation." Finally, through in-depth analysis of a practical case involving the reform of the "Big Data Mining and Application" course at a specific university, the effectiveness of this reform path in enhancing students' data literacy, technical application capabilities, and innovative thinking is validated. The research results demonstrate that the teaching reform system constructed in this paper can effectively bridge the industry-education gap, providing a systematic solution with both theoretical depth and practical value for cultivating high-quality interdisciplinary talents in the tourism industry that meet the development requirements of new quality productive forces.