Designing the Eurasian tourism educational space in the face of modern geopolitical challenges

The article is devoted to the new vectors of education and staff training in tourism industry. It is based on analysis of long-lasting vectors of international and domesticbased tourism education. The author considers some new geopolitical circumstances of Russia in the global world. The aim of the study is to identify the needs of Eurasian dimension in education for deepening the EAEU integration on rapidly growing sectors of the economy, to specify the tools of Eurasian dimension of education development in the tourism industry. The global lifelong learning concept is considered for the country members of the ЕАЕU positioning themselves as international destinations: nowadays they need high-qualified personnel to supply incoming tourist flow including cross-border mobility. The authors analyze the initial conditions and prospects for the synchronization of educational programs of the EAEU countries in terms of tourism; organizational frames for training personnel for the tourism industry, uniting universities of several countries, are presented. The overall methodological framework, used for the purpose of the article include systemic and synergetic approaches; methods of comparative research, collection of empiric data; semantic analysis, interpretation, inductive generalization and problem method. The proposed conclusions can be used to modernization of the training system for the tourism sector of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, for enhancing the development of Eurasian dimension in education within the framework of the EAEU integration.