Students’ Training toward Nostalgic Tourism Organization (the Study Project Implementation Experience)

Abstract

Nostalgic tourism is a promising trend of tourism industry, which has significant social-economic, cultural, international importance for the development of Ukraine. However, its potential is not completely used particularly because of poor training of tourism managers. Thus, it creates the need to develop special teaching programs for managers ready to work with this category of tourists. While conducting the research, we relied on experimental methods (surveys, modeling, contextual approach) and the methods of educational process (design technology, role-playing, trainings, summaries of multilingual text excursions etc.). The article represents the experience of study project implementation "Ivano-Frankivsk: Polish nostalgia" with graduate students of tourism department of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine). It consisted of two parts: predictive (84 students and 25 managers of travel companies were interviewed to identify nostalgic understanding of tourism and willingness to work on its development) and educational- organizational. The technological content of programs along with the nostalgic trips for tourists from Poland were described, which consisted of theoretical- scientific, educational-technological and practical -approbational blocks showing cognitive, educational, ideological importance of nostalgic tourism both for the training of future tourism managers and for various categories of foreign and domestic tourists. According to the results of the research experiment, a number of provisions of theoretical, practical and organizational character, which may become the subject of scientific discourse, are formulated.