Department of Tourism
1239Department of Tourism of Turkmen State Institute of Culture was established in 2019. To date, a number of education books and guides have been prepared for department.
Tourism – preparatory field
Basic requirements for Students who are educated in the preparatory field include following features:
- Determining the goals, content and quality of educational work in higher education institutions, including development of appropriate education program, curricula;
- Determining issue of employment of graduates in field of training and arranging that work according to level of graduate.
Students who are educated in the preparatory field are prepared to carry out activities in the hotel and tourism complexes of country, to carry out organizational, management and research activities according to preparatory course taken in institute.
They can hold positions for highly educated bachelors in boards-enterprise of Ministry of Culture of Turkmenistan, hotels, museums, health and exhibition centers of, as well as in research institutions, public organizations.
Students who are educated in the preparatory field must be highly educated, cultured and healthy, able to protect interests of the people, loyal to their Motherland, people, esteemed President, who truly understands requirements of prosperous period of our Establishment State, policy of our esteemed President and can implement it without deviation.
Students who are educated in the preparatory field must be able to please the public, to lead it, to train its staff in the spirit of unity, purposefulness, patriotism, to continuously and orderly improve their theoretical knowledge and practical skills, to constantly improve their knowledge, to make appropriate use of scientific data collected in own field and to organize own work on a scientific basis.
They must be individuals who are scientifically and practically trained, who have mastered their profession, who are constantly striving to expand and deepen their knowledge and vision, and who are able to work in harmony with society.
Students who are educated in the preparatory field should be able:
- basics of general and theoretical subjects in sufficient quantities to address production and research issues;
- history of the development of world civilization, ethnography of Turkmenistan, introduce of tourism industry, marketing, tourism resources and recreation of Turkmenistan, management, market research, tourism legislation, archeological and architectural monuments of Turkmenistan, tourism, monuments of tourism, hospitality trade, business and commerce in tourism industry, organization of tourism and excursions, tourism and environment, excursions and museum activities;
- development of economy of industry and enterprise, tourism plan, basics of organization and management of production, issues of labor and environmental protection, legal basis of tourism;
- legal framework of Constitution of Turkmenistan, Law of Turkmenistan “about Tourism”, rights of citizens, freedom of citizens, ways to implement them;
- ethics of business negotiations and management psychology, rules of Turkmen literary language, features of spoken and written conversations, professional vocabulary;
- basic concepts and definitions of standardization and certification, key indicators of effective services offered by tourism complexes;
- basics of information technologies and their use in their professional work, labor safety, machinery safety, industrial sanitation, regulations and rules of hotel food service enterprise and fire safety regulations and rules.
Students who are educated in the preparatory field should be able:
- to determine types of tourism enterprises, to provide list of services provided by tourist complexes, organization of high-quality services for consumers, to create of goods conditions for stay in tourist complexes;
- to coordinate with those interested in issues of provided services;
- to organize for provision of tourism services and monitoring quality of provided services, monitoring location of applicants, resolving disputes and disagreements arising out of professional activities, resolving complaints, handling and resolving complaints, resolving disputes, effective management of labor resources, labor of employees, ensuring cleanliness and order in tourist complexes, monitoring implementation of rules and regulations of labor protection, industrial sanitation and hygiene requirements;
- to use modern means of communication and organizational equipment;
- to use information technology in tourism, to use mandatory regulatory legal documents, to analyze speech in terms of regularity, appropriateness and expediency, correction of errors in their memorized and written submissions;
- to use dictionaries in foreign languages (English, Russian);
- to conduct foreign language interview and questionnaire in field of profession; (English, Russian) to find best forms of management, to make effective decisions, to organize marketing research, to conduct statistics in the field of tourism business, to create a positive psychological environment in public place;
- to use accounting and reporting data in practical work, management of disputes and anxieties during professional work;
- to use computer equipment to solve tasks related to preparatory field;
- to make changes to tourism business, critically evaluating the profession;
- technology of tourism activities, technology of formation of tours, technology for arranging services for those interested in tourism complexes, direction development technology, analysis of passport-visa, customs and insurance formalities;
- in-depth study of modern condition and features of development of domestic tourism in Turkmenistan, excursions, advertising, information and communication technologies in tourism;
- Comparison of basics of entrepreneurship and characteristics of entrepreneurship in the tourism sector;
- to study of psychology of selling travel products;
- to create conditions for high-quality service in tourism sector;
- to prepare and registration of documents for obtaining a tourism license (permission), compliance with requirements of standardization and certification in tourism services, effective use of marketing communications in tourism, exhibition of tourism advertising and other exhibitions or other works;
- formation of travel packages, to use knowledge about features of provinces and provincial centers of Turkmenistan in creation of travel packages, sale of tourism products, organization of tours taking into account interests of those interested in tourism services, conducting statistics in the field of tourism business, organizing transport services for tourists.