The Influence of Digitization on Staff Training for Tourism and Hospitality Industry

Abstract

This article estimates the influence of digitization on staff training for tourism and hospitality industry. It is established that every entity of higher education, irrespective of selected strategy, should perform digital transformation, which stipulates for implementation of more flexible processes, modification of corporate culture, optimization of processes upon staff training for tourism and hospitality industry. It has been proved that digitization of educational environment leads to improvement of staff competitiveness, creation of value added and attraction of students. It has been detected that the issues of digitization of tourism and hotel education should include training and advanced training of teaching staff in the field of digital technologies for their application in educational process, implementation of digital technologies in education, provision of opportunity of shared use of digital resources and free access to them in cloud services.