In the Altai region began to work the Academy of hospitality

In accordance with the resolution of the head of the region, Alexander Karlin, the Altai Academy of Hospitality was established and began work in the region. Its activities are organized on the basis of the Barnaul College of Trade and Economics, where now specialists are trained in the field of trade, catering, hotel services and tourism.

The new educational institution carries out training both in the specialties: “Tourism”, “Hotel service”, “Organization of service in catering”, “Technology of catering products”, “Hairdressing”, “Technique and art of photography”, “Design”, “Advertising”, “Commerce”, “Commodity studies and examination of the quality of consumer goods”, “Economics and accounting”, and in professions: maid, porter, agent for receiving orders for excursions, office administrator, assistant for forming excursion groups (tractors), bartender, bartender, bartender.

Now that the tourism industry of the region has reached a new stage, there is a need for professional personnel. One of the directions of the long-term target program “Development of tourism in the Altai Territory” for 2011-2016 is the training of qualified specialists, said Valentina Kosinova, Director of the Academy.

On October 22, the first basic enterprise of the Altai Academy of Hospitality was opened in Barnaul: in the restaurant “Polzunov”, students undergo practical training, develop new dishes, organize organizational events and master classes. In February, the basic enterprise of the Academy will open. They will be one of the largest hotels in the city - Barnaul. In the near future, the Belokurikha resort will begin to cooperate with the Academy. In addition, there are plans to open branches in Biysk.

Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia Maya Lomidze noted the uniqueness of the Altai Academy of Hospitality. She is sure that if the implementation of this business in the region is approached as systematically as some other projects, “then success will definitely be”: “We have all tourism education strives to be higher, although world experience shows that for the bulk of those employed in the field of tourism and recreation secondary vocational education is necessary. Of course, the content part is also important. That is, who teaches, what teaches, what with employment. Of course, the opening of such institutions is more relevant in tourist regions. This allows you to train specialists on the spot, train specialists with an adequate understanding of their future place in this industry, and then people remain in this business in this region, says Maya Lomidze.

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Altai Academy of Hospitality is an educational and methodical center in which educational, material and technical, personnel, methodological resources are concentrated with open access to them by specialized professional educational organizations of the region, united in the Association. Formation of the basis of practical training of specialists is carried out jointly with employers, which will allow training in the workplace.

Employees of the field of hotel service and tourism will be able to undergo retraining and advanced training in the structural unit of the Altai Academy of Hospitality - the Multifunctional Center for Applied Qualifications. In order to create additional conditions for the formation of professional qualifications of specialists and workers, it is planned to open schools in the structure of the Academy: business foreign language, bar, international culinary art, folk art crafts and crafts.

Thus, the structure of the Altai Academy of Hospitality will create a flexible system of continuing professional education that meets the requirements of trade, catering, hotel service and tourism of the Altai Territory.

Full information about the tourist opportunities of the Altai Territory on the website Visitor. rust