Using technology to prepare graduates for careers in hospitality and tourism

The relevance of the problem at issue in the article is due to the need to develop multifunctional competence of future managers of hotel and touristic system: these managers face tough competition for jobs, have to know modern information and communication tools, hotel and tourism business, that is, have multifunctional competences. However, universities still do not have a single integrative (interdisciplinary) basis for training such specialists, there is no package of training information and technical means, strategies and technologies of training, sound organizational and pedagogical conditions. The purpose of the study: basing on the analysis of organizational and pedagogical conditions for training specialists for professional activities in the sphere of hotel service and tourism to determine the content, structure, features for developing multifunctional competence of future specialists. The research methodology is based on the concept of key competence. This methodology involves systematization, classification of significant (key, resultant, autonomous, etc.) problems; developing on this basis the matrix of significant problems and defining the overall strategy, technology management process of professional development. The novelty of the research is that the matrix of significant problems of master's training of future specialists for working in the sphere of hotel service and tourism has been developed; strategies and technologies for developing their multifunctional competence have been defined. The results of the study are implemented in the form of content, structure and organizational and pedagogical conditions for the preparation of future specialists to work in the sphere of hotel and tourism services.