MODEL OF PREPAREDNESS FORMATION FOR MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION OF INTERNATIONAL TOURISM SPECIALISTS

Nowadays an intercultural approach acquires special significance in specialists’ professional training. It is aimed at “training future and current specialists to live in a multicultural society”. Multicultural approach helps students to see what is common and different between cultures, look at their own culture through the eyes of other nations, to form an individual picture" [13; p.330]. Multicultural approach is also aimed at learning and understanding of another culture. As students often consider cultural phenomena of another nation in terms of their internal perspective, in the light of their own culture, sometimes making big mistakes, it may disrupt the process of communication or make it just impossible.

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