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  • Publication
    Theoretical Aspects of the Building Professional Competences of the Hospitality Industry Specialists
    (2015-05-16) ;
    Velta Ļubkina
    The theoretical aspects of the concept of the professional competences of future hospitality industry specialists are examined and analysed in the paper. The study is carried out within the framework of development of the doctoral thesis “Interrelation of the professional competence theories and the practice in the hospitality industry”. The components and constituent elements of the professional competences of the hospitality industry specialists are defined in the research; the concepts “professional independence” and “professional mobility” are defined.
  • Publication
    EDUCATIONAL TOURISM IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE TOURISM PROFESSIONALS
    (2016)
    Iveta Dembovska
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    Velta Ļubkina
    The concept of educational tour (field trip) and the importance and role of  educational tours in the training of future tourism professionals are explored and analysed in the paper. The concept of educational tourism is formulated and the types of field trips are identified in the result of the research. A sociological survey with the aim to find out opinions of tourism students on the necessity, preferable types, and duration of field trips was conducted as well.Research methods: the logical construction method, scientific induction, synthesis, the monographic method, methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis for processing the survey results.