TOURISMOLOGY OF FRANCE IN A SPECIAL COURSE «TOURISM POTENTIAL OF FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRIES» (FOR MASTER'S LEVEL ОN SPECIALITY 242 TOURISM)

Abstract

Problem statement and Purpose. Among the disciplines that form the specialty 242 Tourism in higher educational institutions of Ukraine, one of the main is Tourismology. According to V. Pazenok, V. Fedorchenko, O. Kruchek, T. Dyorova, O. Lyubitseva, M. Malskoy, Y. Zinko, S. Gorky, M. Kiselova, V. Sievers, I. Bratusya, Y. Lyubivoy, E. Slobodenyuk, V. Sich, N. Fomenko, K. Kolomiets, N. Tereshchuk, S. Timchuk, L. Tranchenko, V. Yavorskaya and others, the tourism is a multi-vector scientific direction that unites philosophical, geographical, legal, sociological, cultural, pedagogical and other dimensions, that should be deeply studied by representatives of the vast scientific fields. Joining this point of view, it is possible to add the foreign language and culture dimensions. The purpose of the article is to analyze the interdisciplinary context of training participants in the educational process, within the framework of the Special Course "Tourist Potential of French-Speaking Countries" (the selective block), with a focus on the modern market of educational services and the development of the competencies of higher education recipients necessary in professional contexts. Data & Methods. The research material is French-language scientific academic publications, publications on the specialty and educational materials of the official websites of the leading higher educational institutions of France for tourism, the framework of the courses "Second Foreign Language (French) for Professional Purposes" (general training cycle) and "Tourismology" (the cycle of professional training) with Philosophical methods of using and explaining the contradictory and complex development of intercultural interactions, methods of analysis, analogy, deduction and the axiomatic method. Results. The author's special course on the choice "Tourist potential of French-speaking countries" included in the List 2 (VP 2) for participants in the educational process of the Curriculum for training masters (Branch of knowledge – 24 Sphere of service, specialties of tourist services) is the contribution to the French scientific school (Hoerner J.-M., Sicart C., Marcel Gabriel H., Morfaux M., Frangialli F., Perreault S., Deleuse G., Gauttari P.-F., Blanchard R., Mieges J., Defert P. & others) and the Interest for French the tourist sphere of Odessa and Odessa region thanks to the powerful francophone layer. It represents the systematization of scientific approaches of French specialists to the understanding of the phenomenon of tourism with a brief analysis of the tourist attractiveness of the French-speaking countries and Dependent Territories where French is the official language and consist of 120 hours: 20-classroom, 26-practical and 74-independent. Four semantic modules are: Tourismology of France and the components of the tourist potential of France; The tourist potential of the French-speaking countries of Europe and Canada; Tourist potential of French-speaking countries in Africa; Islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans, Caribbean Sea & Dependent territories where french is official. This interdisciplinary course expand the boundaries of the above programs at the Tourism Department of Geological and Geographical Faculty of Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University.