Improvement of the economic mechanism of distance learning of specialists in tourism in higher educational institutions as the prerequisite of territorial development ensuring

Abstract

The economic mechanism of distance learning of specialists in tourism in higher educational institutions in the context of ensuring territorial development is improved in the article. This mechanism is based on economic assessment of risks of distance learning of specialists in tourism.The generalassessment of positive and negative characteristics of distance learning in the whole showed that the positive ones are the following: lowering of expenses of education; transformation of the advanced techniques of training on the periphery; development of skills of independent work among students; an opportunity to involve results of the most professional teachers in interactive educational process and improvement of quality of monitoring of knowledge due to detail study of test jobs and problems setting. But distance learning is connected with the following negative trends: lack of direct perception of material; lack of an opportunity for a discussion and lack of direct control over the implementation of tasks