Modern professional approach to training specialists for the tourism industry

Abstract

Currently, tourism education is faced with the task of training a specialist who meets both the requirements of the state and the demands of the regional and international labor market. A modern employee of the tourism industry is a "product" of high-quality tourism education, which should be systematic, practice-oriented and integral, as well as contribute to the promotion of the concept of continuing education or lifelong learning. This article analyzes the current state of the training of specialists in the tourism industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan, during which the authors systematically studied the educational programs (OP) "Tourism" and the results of training in this area of more than 40 universities of the republic that train specialists in tourism. In the process of research activities, a survey was formed and conducted of the main universities on the OP "Tourism", in order to identify the key components of tourism education of existing programs. The authors analyzed the normative legal documents in the field of education, namely the State mandatory Standard of education of the Republic of Kazakhstan (SES RK) in the direction of "Tourism" (bachelor's, master's, doctoral studies), the Professional standard "Tourism", developed by the national board of entrepreneurs "Atameken", as well as the results of a survey of subjects of the tourism industry of the country. Based on the data obtained, the authors identified priority areas in the formation of the OP "Tourism" and the key positions necessary in the formation of the results of training a specialist for the tourism industry. The result of the research work was the development of a model of continuous competence development of a specialist in the tourism industry, which was tested at three levels of education (bachelor's, master's, doctoral) on the example of disciplines of the human resource management system in tourism, as one of the key areas of tourism education.