МІЖКУЛЬТУРНА СКЛАДОВА ПРОФЕСІЙНОЇ ПІДГОТОВКИ ФАХІВЦЯ ТУРИСТИЧНОЇ СФЕРИ

Abstract

The article considers the theoretical aspects of tourism specialist professional training for multicultural interaction. The researcher analyses the concepts of “professional training”, “tourism specialist professional training”. The author determines that the development of tolerance, communicative culture and behaviour are the priority tasks for the effective intercultural communication. It is noted that the result of this training is a specialist capable of professional self-determination and self-improvement throughout his/her life, ready to communicate with the representatives of other cultures who are the carriers of their own, unique cultural customs, traditions, religious beliefs. The analysis of the organisation of the educational process in tourism educational institutions shows that the learning of humanitarian disciplines directly result in the formation of intercultural competence and emphasises the importance of extra-curriccular and independent work of students, practical future specialists’ training abroad for acquiring practical communivative skills due to the communicative interaction with the foreigners. It is revealed that the culture of professional communication of a future tourism sphere specialist is of paramount importance in his/her becoming a subject of the intercultural dialogue. Intercultural competence is defined as the presence of knowledge, skills and abilities obtained in the process of professional training for establishing personal relationships between people or groups of people who are the representatives of different cultures for the exchange of information, values, norms of behaviour able to feel the peculiarities of dialogical relations. It is noted that intercultural competence contributes to the equal and tolerant coexistence of peoples on the principles of equality and dignity, and productive cooperation both at the social and economic levels. The recommendations for further research indicate the need for the improvement of the skills of scientific and pedagogical workers in the context of intercultural cooperation.