Historical aspects of the formation of children and youth tourism in the education system

The organization and implementation of tourist activities in the education system being one of the labor functions of the Professional Standard “Teacher”, has a positive effect on the upbringing of the younger generation in the context of modernization of public consciousness. Despite the relevance of the labor functions of a teacher, one of the problems of the tourism development in the system of general and additional education is the lack of training of specialists in this area and the lack of consistency in the use of youth tourism in the educational process. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the need to develop tourism in the system of general, secondary and additional education, to analyze the positive and negative practices of using child and youth tourism in educational process. To reach the purpose the retrospective analysis of the development of youth tourism and an assessment of its current state in the education system were made. The historical periods of solving the problem of the development of youth tourism are substantiated, the criteria for periodization are identified and the content characteristics of the identified periods are described. The historic ways to solve the problem are determined, and the analysis of the modern period of development is given. The necessity to further study the problem of the development of youth tourism has been proved.