The relevance of the problem at issue in the article is due to the need to develop multifunctional
competence of future managers of hotel and touristic system: these managers face tough competition
for jobs, have to know modern information and communication tools, hotel and tourism business,
that is, have multifunctional competences. However, universities still do not have a single integrative
(interdisciplinary) basis for training such specialists, there is no package of training information
and technical means, strategies and technologies of training, sound organizational and pedagogical
conditions.
The purpose of the study: basing on the analysis of organizational and pedagogical conditions for
training specialists for professional activities in the sphere of hotel service and tourism to determine
the content, structure, features for developing multifunctional competence of future specialists.
The research methodology is based on the concept of key competence. This methodology involves
systematization, classification of significant (key, resultant, autonomous, etc.) problems; developing
on this basis the matrix of significant problems and defining the overall strategy, technology
management process of professional development.
The novelty of the research is that the matrix of significant problems of master's training of future
specialists for working in the sphere of hotel service and tourism has been developed; strategies and
technologies for developing their multifunctional competence have been defined.
The results of the study are implemented in the form of content, structure and organizational and
pedagogical conditions for the preparation of future specialists to work in the sphere of hotel and
tourism services.