EDUCATIONAL TOURISM IN THE TRAINING OF FUTURE TOURISM PROFESSIONALS

Iveta Dembovska; Inese Silicka; Velta Ļubkina

doi:10.17770/sie2016vol4.1561

Authors

Iveta Dembovska Rezekne Academy of Technologies (LV)
Inese Silicka Rezekne Academy of Technologies (LV)
Velta Ļubkina Rezekne Academy of Technologies (LV)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17770/sie2016vol4.1561

Keywords:

educational tourism, professional competence, field trips

Abstract

The concept of educational tour (field trip) and the importance and role of educational tours in the training of future tourism professionals are explored and analysed in the paper. The concept of educational tourism is formulated and the types of field trips are identified in the result of the research. A sociological survey with the aim to find out opinions of tourism students on the necessity, preferable types, and duration of field trips was conducted as well.

Research methods: the logical construction method, scientific induction, synthesis, the monographic method, methods of quantitative and qualitative analysis for processing the survey results.

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