FORMATION OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCY IN PERSONNEL TRAINING FOR INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

Abstract

The study is devoted to the formation of intercultural competency in personnel training for international tourism. Intercultural competency must be constantly verified, maintained, and updated, since the identities of the communicants, the cultural contexts, and the communication strategies themselves are constantly developing and changing in international tourism. The level of success in the formation of the intercultural competency of a specialist in tourism activities depends on the type of their native culture and the cultural-specific features of their cultural archetype, as well as how developed the tourism sector in their culture is, what are the traditions of receiving guests in their cultural community, and, accordingly, how difficult in this sense can be the intercultural transformation of the communicant’s personality in the process of learning, practice, and various types of obtaining and accumulating experience of intercultural communication.