TOURISM REVOLUTION IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURY: HUMAN RESOURCE SUPPLY ISSUES
The article examines the main trends and results of the revolutionary changes in human resource training in the tourism industry. It is demonstrated how complicated and controversial was the process of reinstating the tourism industry and its professional staff training after the Great Patriotic War. The article shows that all the efforts aimed at supplying enough staff for the industry (short-term courses and seminars, training sessions and trips, specialized educational institutions, teacher-training and sports institutions of higher education, university geography departments and the Higher school of the trade union movement) could not keep up with the growth of the tourism movement. The basis for the modern system of higher education in tourism was laid only at the last stage of the USSR existence.