Use of active learning methods in the training of specialists in the tourism industry for excursion activities (in an urban environment)

The study aims to theoretically substantiate the opportunities to use active learning methods in training future specialists in the tourism industry for leading excursions. The authors conclude that the forms and methods of active learning that can be utilized in the training of future tourism industry specialists for leading excursions include: practical lessons in the form of excursions and research lessons in the urban environment, individual types of lectures (dialogue lecture-conversation, lecture-discussion, problem-based lecture, lecture with an analysis of specific professional cases) and seminars-discussion, as well as independent work in the form of individual research assignments. The priority form of active learning is considered to be practical lessons in the form of excursions and research lessons organized immediately in the urban environment.