Training workshop for guides and workers of hotel business completed at Pavlodar state university, which was organized by S. Toraighyrov PSU together with the Department of entrepreneurship, trade and tourism of Pavlodar region.

Leading experts worked in three areas. Issues of tourist guidance, features of hotel business were studied, and also the potential of Pavlodar region in the sphere of tourism was considered.

Among the invited lecturers were: Vice President of the Tourism Federation, President of the Federation for mountaineering and rock climbing of Pavlodar region Marina Karimova, Doctor of Geography, Professor of L.N. Gumilyov ENU. Ordenbek Mazbayev, Director of the Center for Archaeological Research, Candidate of Historical Sciences Viktor Mertz, the director of the Pavlodar house of Geography Alexander Vervekin, as well as specialists of the Department of Geography and Tourism of S. Toraighyrov PSU.

In addition, excursions to the archaeological and ethnographic museums of the university, Pavlodar house of geography, D.Bagayev House Museum and the Irtysh Hotel Complex were organized for the listeners.

At the end of the training workshop, as a final exam, the participants confirmed gained theoretical knowledge in practice during the excursion around Pavlodar.

More than 50 Pavlodar specialists received their certificates, including museum workers and students.