THE IMPORTANCE OF TOURISM IN THE PROFESSIONAL TRAINING OF A FUTURE GEOGRAPHY TEACHER

Abstract

The article discusses a topical problem of professional training of a future geography teacher. The author puts forward an idea of the need to include the study of tourism in the geography teacher training program taking into account the modernization of the education system in Russia, the content of geographical education, modern requirements for a teacher. The basis for this idea is the author’s five-year research on the dynamics and peculiarities of the international and domestic tourism’s development. The main study’s content is a description of the educational potential of studying the tourism sector from the perspective of a competence approach. The author explains how tourism can influence the development of professional competencies. The author also proposes and characterizes 3 ways of transformation for the inclusion of tourism in the professional training of geography teachers at Volgograd State Social Pedagogical University. This development has practical significance for the transformation of further educational activities there.