Samokhval O. Tendencies of Tourism Education Development at Higher Education Institutions in German-speaking Countries of Western Europe

The doctoral thesis deals with the theoretically methodological principles of the development and formation of continuous tourism education systems in German-speaking countries of Western Europe. The peculiar internal national, external European and world factors that influenced the concept of tourism education development in these countries were determined; features of development of continuous tourism education concept in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg and Liechtenstein within the regular structuring, functioning, evolution of tourism education on the basis of holistic analysis of pedagogical, political and economic processes were studied. The trends of tourism education development in Ukraine are empirically identified and grounded, and possible ways of their implementation in the national system of tourism education under the new socio-economic conditions are substantiated.