Professional training of future hospitality industry specialists in the context of modern approaches to education

the article is devoted to the problem of training competitive hospitality specialists as one of the priority and dynamically developing areas of Russian industrial segments. Russian socio-economic policy is still busy with its transition from a raw material development model to an innovative, socially oriented type of economy. The professional training of future hospitality industry specialists is considered in the context of modern approaches as methodological grounds for the professional development of graduates, capable of designing and implementing their own professional careers, possessing the necessary competencies, personal qualities and professional mobility. The analysis of a number of surveys to identify the professional positions of undergraduate students majoring in the areas of «Hotel business» and «Tourism» at Petrozavodsk State University, as well as the results on the identification of their values, motivation for sociocultural and intercultural interaction, value-semantic, is presented attitude to the future profession. The professional competencies of future hotel service specialists were singled out and the ways to train them in various types of practice-oriented activities close to professional ones were shown.