SELF-IMPROVEMENT AND ACQUISITION TO A CIVILIZATIONAL HERITAGE IN TOURISM
Modern education of psychologists-educators and other specialists of the group of man-man, man-art (according to the classification of professions by E.A. Klimova) can and should be enriched by an appeal to practices that have multiple purposes, representing one or another way of organizing the life of an individual or groups of individuals, including tourism. The training of psychologists-teachers in the field of organization, implementation and psychological and pedagogical support of tourist activity acts not only as a channel for expanding their non-professional competencies and capabilities, providing another demanded and interesting profession, but also strengthens their own professional competencies. The purpose of the work is to study the specifics, state and prospects of tourism development for the implementation of the goals of self-improvement and familiarization with the riches of the civilizational heritage, analysis of the problems of organizing and implementing psychological and pedagogical support of tourism activities using the example of spiritual and esoteric tourism. Despite the obviousness for many tourist trips of the motives of self-improvement and familiarizing a person with the civilizational heritage, these motives do not always become central. The exception is educational, psychotherapeutic and esoteric tourism. These types of tourism imply the availability of knowledge and skills that are transferred only to those people and when people are looking for them. The condition for obtaining this knowledge and skills is self-improvement and self-realization, inextricably linked with the introduction of a person to the civilizational heritage. This type of tourism has great development prospects precisely as tourism of special interests, since it presupposes a conscious work of a person with himself, deployed in space and time, coordinated with other people and involving the study of the civilizational heritage of mankind. The organization of such work requires significant efforts on his part and on the part of the organizers of the tourist trip. We need not only highly qualified specialists and special tourist destinations, but also flexible, multicomponent routes that allow us to implement special customer requests so that this type of business remains not only in demand, but also competitive. In the process of training specialists of the "person-to-person" group, including teachers and psychologists, acquaintance with tourism activities, its competencies, serves as an important channel for the development of the future professional, rethinking narrow professional practices, technologies and models, their saturation, enrichment with tourism technologies. An important role in this process has been played and is being played by competencies related to the comprehension of life and professional values, spiritual and moral aspects of life that structure the civilizational heritage of mankind. It is they and the educational opportunities of tourism that are the main focus of attention in the main, additional and ongoing (re) training of specialists.The main problem of the formation and development of man is his non-transparency, inequality to himself, disharmony and inconsistency, inequality to the wealth of the civilizational heritage, to which mankind has now come. The motives for self-improvement and familiarizing a person with the civilizational heritage within the framework of educational, psychotherapeutic and spiritual-esoteric tourism acquire central importance. Such tourism is the practice of organizing the life of a person striving to expand his / her abilities and capabilities, his / her life world, to self-improvement and familiarization with all the wealth of civilizational heritage. Tourism provides an opportunity to explore modern and traditional searches for spirituality, improve your understanding of yourself and the world, your progress in the everyday, social world (self-realization) and the inner, spiritual (self-actualization), having joined the civilizational heritage of mankind. In addition to the patchwork of ideas about the spiritual and philosophical foundations of human existence, there is an opposite movement - towards a holistic understanding of the experience of peoples and mankind through the prism of ideas about the "civilizational heritage". In the center of the traveler's attention is the self-transforming, forming spiritual experience of a person and its inclusion in the civilizational heritage of a particular nation or humanity as a whole, a journey that includes both a “special” experience of altered states and the acquisition / improvement of special competencies, and the experience of introducing spiritual and worldview the wealth of this or that nation or humanity as a whole (civilizational heritage). Tourists seeking self-actualization and comprehension of the civilizational heritage are a special group of people in need of a special type of tourist travel and special guides - combining the features of a “guide”, a teacher-mentor and a psychologist-facilitator. The training of such specialists is an urgent need, which can be realized within the framework of general (at the level of specializations), additional and other types (“continuous”) education for specialists of the “person-to-person” group. Self-improvement of a modern specialist in the professional field can and should be combined with improvement in the spheres of personal and partner life, with familiarization with the achievements of civilization. In the process of training specialists of "person-to-person" groups, including psychologists and teachers, familiarity with tourism activities, its competencies, serves as an important channel for the development of the future professional, rethinking narrow professional practices, technologies and models, their saturation, enrichment with tourism technologies. Keywords: self-improvement, civilizational heritage, educational tourism, spiritual and esoteric tourism, psychological and pedagogical