Moscow regional education cluster in tourism and service

The article substantiates the relevance of a cluster model integrating the resources of those participating in the system of personnel training for the Moscow region tourism and service industry with the view to alleviating the personnel shortage and the inadequate professional training of the employees in the target sphere of regional activity. The principle of continuous professional development based on the strategic complex approach to the demand-for-personnel forecasting is used as the conceptual foundation for the cluster formation. The authors propose a solution to the personnel issues concerning multisector spheres of activity: 1) at the regional level; 2) on the intersectoral and interdepartmental basis. The authors describe the efficiency factors of a cluster-model-based organization of professional training systems providing personnel training fordifferent spheres of activity. Among these factors are: 1) regional and local authority''s engagement in solving the staffing problems ofthe major sector; 2) a recognition by the administrative bodies, educational establishments, business and society in general of the necessity to consider not only the narrow utility task of vacancy-filling, but also, more importantly, the task of equipping the learners with valuable personality tools potentially promoting effective socialization, professionalization, and continuous development through common cultural, methodical and professional competence formation; 3) the readiness level ofparticipants in the system of professional training to take a systematic, purposeful and progressive perspective on developing the on-mid-and-long-term-demand training programmes: from professional induction at the initial stages of learning to advanced training at graduate and postgraduate levels.