The Prospects of Montenegro Training Programs for Tourism Industry and PR Students Discussed in RosNOU

On December 2, Elena Medvedeva, head of the Cultural Centre “Vozroshdenye” in Budva, Montenegro, visited RosNOU. (The word“Vozroshdenye” means “revival” in English). Miss Medvedeva met RosNOU senior officials including Vladimir Minaev, vice-rector for education and innovative work, Anna Biryukova, head of the International Education Centre, Lidya Androsova and Nelly Mavrina, vice-deans of the Business Technologies in Tourist and Travel Industry Department, Marina Antropova, head of RosNOU Russian Language and General Linguistics Chair, and Elena Chilingir, vice-dean of the Humanities and Foreign Languages Department.

The parties discussed issues of training public relations specialists and skilled personnel for Tourist and Travel Industry. They also agreed to arrange an official visit of RosNOU delegation headed by its rector and deans of the respective departments to the Cultural Centre “Vozroshdenye”. The visit is to take place in April 2010.

The RosNOU officials plan to arrange practical training courses for RosNOU students in cooperation with the Cultural Centre “Vozroshdenye”. They are also to develop a joint education program. Tourist guides for Montenegro will be trained within the framework of the program.

A promo-tour to Montenegro is to be arranged for RosNOU students. As a result the students participating in the tour will get references depending on their results to go for training with Montenegro tour operators.