Manager environmental tourism

Profession will appear after 2025
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Tourism

The duties of the ecotourism manager include organization of all kinds of works on creation and promotion of this tourism direction: interaction with local government bodies, attraction of investors, control over fulfillment of all contractual obligations of stakeholders. He is engaged in development of ecotourism concept, strategic development of tourist destinations within the framework of sustainable development concept, development and monitoring of key indicators of sustainable development and is responsible for careful use of all resources.

Professional novelty: selection of ecological tourism as an independent direction in view of the increased demand for this type of tourist services.

His responsibilities include:

  • development, implementation and improvement of the system for monitoring activities of tourist destinations within the concept of sustainable development;
  • monitoring of key indicators of sustainable development;
  • study and implementation of international standards and best practices in the sphere of sustainable development, control and monitoring of their implementation.

Key competencies:

  • knowledge of ecology, environmental protection and rules of conduct in protected areas
  • knowledge of the basics of tourist product development

Over-professional skills

They understand customer focus as the ability to work with customer requests, the ability of the company and employees to timely determine the desires of customers in order to satisfy them with their products or services with maximum benefit. This competency has become critical to the success of companies, competition for consumers is growing all the time, and all employers want to see customer-oriented employees. In the second half of the 20th century, the concept of an internal client appeared, i.e. an intermediate consumer located further along the production chain within the same company. Possession of this competency allows you to accurately understand the client’s request and offer the most suitable solution for him, as well as to build the production and service process more rationally, eliminating the stages that are not important for the client.

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Customer focus

Multiculturalism is the preservation and development in a particular community (state or enterprise) of the cultural characteristics of the people there. Multiculturalism and multilingualism at the enterprise involves not only the consideration of national or religious cultures, but also cultures of thinking, psychotypes, communications and individual characteristics.


The modern world is becoming global at a rapid pace. Already now is no exception a company in which specialists who are born or reside in different parts of the earth work. The policy of multiculturalism and multilingualism sets the vector for the interaction of dissimilar people: not to conflict, but to recognize each other.


The changes taking place today pose new, unprecedented hitherto challenges. It is generally recognized that the most effective solutions are born at the intersection of different areas of knowledge, approaches, and cultures. The most effective teams include people with different characteristics of thinking, psychology, distribution of roles in the team. Multicultural teams will be able to find effective unusual solutions and even solve problems that still cannot be solved.

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Multilingualism and multiculturalism

Intersectoral communication consists in understanding technologies, processes and the market situation in various related and non-adjacent industries, cross-functional and cross-disciplinary interaction. More and more advanced products are created at the junction of different industries and specialists need the ability to understand several areas of knowledge at the same time. This competency allows you to learn faster, take the best from different fields, and through this mutual enrichment, ensure development within your field. Those with such competence can create unexpected, unique, breakthrough solutions.

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Intersectoral communication

The ability of a specialist to combine (summarize) particular facts into a big picture, build hierarchical levels for understanding various situations (economic, political, business) and making long-term decisions. An important quality is the understanding of how a change in one element will subsequently affect other elements.

The importance of systemic thinking is increasing due to the acceleration of changes in life, the need to learn new professions, as well as the growing interpenetration of various areas in each other (social networks, economics, politics, production, etc.).

Specialists with systemic thinking skills will be able to solve such problems, make strong long-term decisions in the context of rapid changes in the economy, diagnose large technical and social systems, make decisions on eliminating the root causes that hinder development, and this skill will allow for the integration of various project teams into a single working organism.

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Systemic thinking

Project and process management includes the ability to focus on the project goals, the ability to competently plan and organize team actions for the effective implementation of tasks, the ability to assess existing risks and opportunities for all parties to the interaction. A specialist who has this skill knows how to properly organize the work on the project within the specified funding framework, and is able to correctly distribute the work in order to meet the deadlines set by the project. such a specialist is constantly learning something new, is not afraid to make mistakes, is able to generate new effective ways to solve problems and tasks. the demand for specialists with knowledge and tools in the field of project management will increase, as project activities are considered by companies as the most important factor in their effective development
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Project and process management

Environmental thinking is focused on achieving harmony between business and the environment. A business cycle is already developing from creation to disposal of a product, and not just its sale and consumption. Environmental thinking puts health and sustainable development at the top of the list.

The importance of environmental thinking is increasing due to the fact that industrial development has reached the limit and all further models of sustainable growth of society, the economy and business should be built on the basis of mutual interests with nature, the ecosystem, its maintenance and development.

Specialists with environmental thinking skills will be able to solve such problems as: respect for resources, achieving zero emission of harmful substances into the environment, waste management and use of secondary resources

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Environmental thinking

Educational institutions

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Kazakh National University. Al-Farabi

https://www.kaznu.kz/ru

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Almaty Technological University

https://atu.kz/

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Eurasian National University. L.N. Gumilyov

https://www.enu.kz/ru/o-enu/istoriya-universiteta/

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Pavlodar State University named after S. Toraigyrova

https://tou.edu.kz/ru/

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Ш.Есенов атындағы Каспий мемлекеттік технологиялар және инжиниринг университеті

https://kguti.kz

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South Kazakhstan State University. M. Auezova

https://www.ukgu.kz/ru/fakultety

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Kazakh State Women's Pedagogical University

https://kazmkpu.kz/ru/istoriya

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Taraz State University named after M.Kh. Dulati

https://www.tarsu.kz/ru/

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Zhetysu State University named after I. Zhansugurov

http://zhgu.edu.kz/

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Aktobe Regional State University named K. Zhubanova

https://arsu.kz/ru/

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Kazakh Academy of sport & tourism

https://kazast.edu.kz

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Companies in which this profession may be in demand

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LLP "International travel company" Complete Service "

http://complete.kz/

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LLP Tourist Center "Golden Caravan"

http://goldcaravan.kz/

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LLP "Turkestan Elite Tour"

http://www.elittour.kz/

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Kan Tengri Expeditions LLP

https://kantengri.kz/ru/

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LLP "International Travel plus"

https://www.itplus.kz/

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Time Fly Travel LLP

https://tft.kz/

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