Analysis of the model of training for the tourism industry in Norway

This article is another publication of the research results of foreign models of training for the tourism sector. All the author's publications are based on a single cycle of a conceptual representation of professional education in the field of tourism as an activity-system which has its own goal-setting and invariant and variable structural elements, super-system limiters, resources, and so on. Comparative analysis of foreign models of training for tourism allows identifying the essential characteristics of the basic structure and content of models, which affect the efficiency of education systems, which in turn means the maximum achievement of the purposes of educational activities for their participants.In order to analyze the model of training for the tourism industry in Norway were used the author's own methods of analyzing the structure and content of vocational education in the field of tourism developed in order to study quantitative and qualitative parameters of education. As sources of information the author uses both secondary (research reports, statistics) and primary (results of surveys and interviews with representatives of education, students; pedagogical documentation) sources. The study of the Norwegian model of training for tourism includes: a research framework of conditions for the establishment and development of a training system for tourism in Norway; a study of tourism employment in Norway, which has a pronounced specificity (seasonality, alternative forms of tourism); a study of the structural features of the formation and continuity of educational levels. Of particular interest are the results of a study of factors affecting the consumer subsystem parameters, in particular, focus on student training; validity of educational levels and modules which direct education at the development of human resources.The results of the study lead to the conclusion about high levels which characterize the consumer subsystem of the system of professional education in the field of tourism. It is also possible to formulate an assumption about a correlation between the indicators of competitiveness of the tourism sector (in terms of the parameters describing human resources) and the indicators characterizing the consumer subsystem of the training system for the tourism sector.