Kobzova S. Professional training of tourism specialists for regional tours designing

Object: process of professional training of tourism specialists; aim: substantiate theoretically and proof experimentally the effectiveness of the technology of training of tourism specialists for regional tours designing; methods: analysis, generalization, modeling, observation, discussion, questionnaire survey, testing, analysis of products of training and project activities, expert evaluation, pedagogical experiment, methods of mathematical statistics; novelty: for the first time the technology of training of tourism specialists for regional tours designing is worked out; results: teaching and methodological guidelines of training technology of future tourism specialists for regional tours designing (the algorithm for regional tours designing; the guidelines for the students studying „Geography of Tourism” basic training course; the work program „Regional tours designing”; evaluation and diagnostic system for checking the preparedness of the students of „Tourism” specialty for regional tours designing) were developed; field – theory and methodology of professional education