Experiment on training of tourism instructors: intermediate result and prospects

The considerable part of the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan consists of nature resources, which can be used in economic purposes through the development of active travel. However, travel companies of Kazakhstan do not use such travel in their work due to the lack of qualitative tourism instructors. During the Soviet period of development of Kazakhstan, a network of schools and training courses for tourism instructors from the republican level to urban and regional tourism clubs were developed and effectively operated. It was funded by trade unions. Currently, such centralized funding is not available, so a very topical issue is finding an alternative system for training tourism instructors. The practice of training tourism instructors, taking into account big experience of the Soviet times, has been accumulated at “Turan” University since 1992. In 2012, the university set a goal to develop an alternative system for training tourism instructors from among university students as part of the curriculum for the “Tourism” specialty. Studies conducted at the Research Institute of Tourism of “Turan” University showed that the most suitable contingent for the successful preparation of tourism instructors are university students of “Tourism” faculty. Summing up the intermediate results of the experiment conducted at “Turan” University, it should be noted that the learning process of future instructors made it possible to work out the technology of theoretical and practical classes with training trips.

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