Professional Training of Students in the Tourist Sphere at the Modern Stage of Development of Foreign Economic Relations

Abstract

The article deals with the problems of improving modern professional tourism education. The paper defines the main theoretical aspects of professional training of students in the tourism sector and the implementation of this training in modern foreign economic and socio-cultural conditions, namely: the goal, objectives, components (stages) of professional training of a modern tourism manager, components of the content of vocational education, didactic foundations, patterns and etc. It has been determined that a modern tourism specialist must have the ability to learn and retrain (adapt) if necessary, find non-standard solutions to professional problem situations, possess a wide range of competencies, which allows him to carry out all areas of multifunctional professional activity at a high level. The article also defines the tasks of professional tourist training of future specialists, namely, the development of professional interest in tourism and the motivation to acquire knowledge, skills and abilities necessary for work; developing the ability to work independently in order to deepen their knowledge and improve the professional skills necessary to attract people to tourism; the formation of scientifically grounded views and beliefs necessary for a fruitful professional activity. In modern economic and socio-cultural conditions, there is a need to improve professional tourism education. In this regard, it is necessary to develop methodological foundations for the implementation of professional education of future tourism specialists at a qualitatively new level. In our opinion, the implementation of professional training of future managers of the tourism industry, taking into account the positions of competence, systemic, activity and personality-oriented approaches, justified by modern pedagogy of higher education, the integration of traditional and innovative approaches to the organization of the educational process in the context of the formal, aimed at the formation of professional the competence and readiness of students for the implementation of professional activities, will allow modern universities to produce competent specialists who are competitive in the domestic and world labor market in the tourism industry.