Formation of modern domestic excursion business

The appeal to the historical study of this issue is due to the need to build a new development stage of the excursion business with a unified system of training guides and guides-interpreters according to a new professional standard, improving the quality and control of excursion services. The traditions laid down by our predecessors have not disappeared, but have become especially relevant for the national excursion school these days. The article examines the Soviet experience of forming a system of professional training of excursion personnel since 1918, when the Bureau of School Excursions was organized at the People's Commissariat of Education of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). Further, the work of the Joint Excursion Bureau (1926), JSC "Soviet Tourist" (1928), the Society of Proletarian Tourism and Excursions of the RSFSR (1930), which began training tourist personnel (including guides and interpreters), is considered in stages. The issues of planned training of personnel for the tourism industry on the basis of the first tourist and excursion college (1932) and courses of the Tourist and Excursion Department of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions since 1937 (since August 1969 - the Central Council for Tourism and Excursions of the All-Union Central Council of Trade Unions) are considered. Special attention is paid to the formation of the tourist personnel training system in the Republic of Karelia. The article is focused on the tourism personnel training system in the USSR and the Russian Federation, and particularly - on the Soviet experience of training tourist personnel, which must be used in modern vocational education. The materials of the article can be used in the educational process of professional training of guides, in scientific research, in the practical work of federal and municipal authorities for the development of tourism.