Conditions of the development of scientific and methodological competence of future tourism specialists in higher education institutions

Abstract

Current trends in the development of the tourism industry require the updating, which will be focused on improving the quality and humanization of the training process for tourism specialists. Such skills as planning, forecasting, modeling, designing are qualitative indicators of the professionalism of a modern tourism specialist. A tourism experts profession is simultaneously transforming and managing. In order to manage the process of individual development, it is necessary to be competent. The notion of professional competence of a tourism experts expresses unity of his/her theoretical and practical readiness to the integral structure of a personality and describes his/her professionalism. Content of professional competence of a tourism experts of one or another major is determined by qualification characteristics. It constitutes a normative model of a tourism experts’s competence, reflecting theoretically substantiated professional knowledge, abilities, skills.