METHODOLOGICAL BASES OF FORMATION OF MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPETENCE OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS IN THE SPHERE OF HOTEL SERVICE AND TOURISM

Abstract

The article examines a problem of forming a multifunctional competence of future specialists in the field of hotel and tourist services. The paper reveals the meaning of this competence and its role in the system of key competencies of a specialist in the tourism industry. As a methodological basis for the formation of multi-functional competence of future specialists in the field of tourism and hotel services, the study substantiates the system, competence and multi-functional approaches. The author concludes that the formation of multi-functional competence provides not the assimilation of individual unrelated elements of knowledge and skills, but the mastery of a complex procedure of multidisciplinary activity, for each of the areas of which the specialist has an appropriate set of educational components, which have a personal and significant character.