Experience of implementing business-oriented model of staff training for tourism industry

The article presents the experience of Pushkin Leningrad State University in establishing and organizing Training Tourist Center “Tsarskoye Selo Campus”, as well as describes main stages of the project, the center’s status, func- tions and specific features of integration into the educational process. The 4th year students who studied speciality “Social and cultural service and tourism” prepared, organized, and implemented, with University teachers con- sulting. Representatives of tourism business provided support to the project as experts. The structure of the Training Tourist Center includes such components as Training Travel Agency and Training Hotel and Hostel. The Training Tourist Centre is a structural unit of the University, and a training-production site for students of Natural Sciences, Geography and Tourism Faculty and of other faculties, where students can master their knowledge and skills in fundamental subjects of the curriculum, requirements of Federal State Educational Standards to be taken into account. The Centre implements in-service training, and different kinds of practices. It creates tourist products for promoting it at the market by participating in professional travel fairs, direct advertising, etc. The mechanisms of integrating the Centre into the educational process for a number of areas of training have been defined. They are based on practice-oriented and project technologies. Strategy and tactics of training at the University in the area of the enlarged group of specialties of 43.00.00 Service and Tourism are of anticipating nature. In the current reali- ties of the industry, the University students prepare to work at the domestic tourism market.