The Division of Hotel and Restaurant Business was founded in 2007 (until 2012- the Division of Hotel, Restaurant and Resort Business) as a result of the reorganization of the Division of Tourism and Hotel Business. The above was a necessary step towards the training of highly-skilled experts for their further work in the hospitality industry of the Carpathian region.
The Division was founded by the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 1719 as of December 13, 2006 due to the fact that “Hotel and Restaurant Business” major belongs to the “service sector”. From its foundation and until 2011, the division was supervised by Professor Y.M. Labiy.
In 2007-2008 academic year 6 full-time teachers (1 professor holding PhD – Y.M. Labiy, 1 associate professor holding Candidate of Sciences Degree – V.V. Gumenyuk, 4 instructors and a senior secretary) and 2 part-time external lecturers worked at the division.
In the 2008-2009 academic year the full-time teaching staff of the division was almost unchanged (one more full-time teacher started to work at the division). During this academic year teachers I. Mendela and V. Orlova defended their candidate`s dissertations. The number of part-time external lecturers increased to 6 people (including 1 professor holding PhD and 1 associate professor holding Candidate of Sciences Degree).
In the 2009-2010 academic year the full-time teaching staff was unchanged. There worked 5 part-time external lecturers (including 1 associate professor holding Candidate of Sciences Degree).
In 2010-2011 academic year there worked 6 full-time teachers (including 1 professor holding PhD and 2 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees) and 6 part-time external lecturers (including 1 associate professor holding Candidate of Sciences Degree).
As of September 1, 2011, 7 full-time teachers including 2 professors holding PhDs (V. Klapchuk and Y. Labiy), 3 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees (V. Gumenyuk, I. Mendela and L. Polyova) and 2 senior teachers (G. Kotenko and L. Loyak) and 2 senior secretaries (N. Kvasnytsya and Y. Andrukhiv) were working at the division.
In order to increase the quality of teaching staff of the division 7 part-time internal lecturers and 2 part-time external lecturers (including 4 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees) were hired. In total 2 professors holding PhDs and 7 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees worked at the division.
During 2007-2014 teachers of the division defended 1 Doctoral dissertation (V. Klapchuk) and 7 Candidate`s dissertations (V. Gumenyuk, I. Mendela, O. Novosyolov, L. Polyova, L. Loyak and R. Zagnybida).
Teachers of the Division are leading experts in different sectors of science, education and production. They are members of academic and specialized councils, field academies of sciences, editorial boards of scientific publications, etc. Professor V. Klapchuk is member of Scientific Council of Precarpathian National University, member of scientific and technical councils of the Carpathian National Park and Natural Reserve “Gorgany”. Professor V. Klapchuk, senior lecturer L. Polyova and teacher G. Kotenko are members of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Tourism.
Professor V. Klapchuk is a member of Specialized Scientific Council for Defense of PhD dissertations. Also Professor V. Klapchuk is the chief editor of the scientific journal “Recreational Potential of Precarpathian”. Professor V. Klapchukalso supervises the editorial board of the Journal “The Carpathian Region”.
Since 2012-2013 academic year the division has received a license to teach 10 full-time students acquiring Master of Resort Business Degree. In 2012-2013 academic year 4 professors holding PhDs, 9 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees (6 full-time teachers including 2 professors holding PhDs and 4 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees) worked at the division.
In 2012-2013 academic year 9 full-time teachers including 2 professors holding PhDs (V. Klapchuk and Y. Labiy), 4 associate professors holding Candidate of Science Degree (V. Gumenyuk, I. Mendela, O. Novosyolov and L. Polyova), 2 senior teachers (G. Kotenko and L. Loyak), 2 teachers (I. Bogoslavets and O. Novosyolov) and 2 senior secretaries (N. Kvasnytsya and Y. Andrukhiv) worked at the division.
2 part-time internal professors holding PhDs (I. Kalutskyy, P. Karpenko) and 6 associate professors holding Candidate of Science Degree (I. Dundyak, L. Kovalska, V. Orlova, N. Ostap’yuk, S. Filyuk , V. Shykerynets) worked at the division.
In 2012-2013 academic year 21 teachers and 2 assistants worked at the division in total.
In 2013-2014 academic year 10 full-time teachers including 2 professors holding PhDs (V. Klapchuk and Y. Labiy), 6 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees (V. Gumenyuk, I. Mendela, O. Novosyolov, L. Polyova, R. Kotenko and L. Loyak ), 1 senior teacher (G. Kotenko), 1 instructor (I. Bogoslavets), 2 senior secretaries (N. Kvasnytsya and Y. Andrukhiv) worked at the division. Also during this academic year 2 part-time internal professors holding PhDs (I. Kalutskyy, P. Karpenko), 2 part-time internal associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degree (L. Kovalska and V. Shykerynets) and 2 part-time internal instructors (R. Zagnybida and Y. Andrukhiv) were working at the division.
In 2013-2014 academic year 16 teachers and 2 assistants worked at the division.
During the 2013-2014 academic year the division was able to get accreditation for educational qualification level “Master” of Resort Business and applied for a license enabling 25 people full-time and 10 part-time students to receive Master`s Degrees.
In 2014-2015 academic year 9 full-time teachers including 1 professor holding PhD (V. Klapchuk), 6 associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees (V. Gumenyuk, I. Mendela, O. Novosyolov, L. Polyova, R. Kotenko and L. Loyak ), 1 senior teacher (G. Kotenko), 1 instructor (I. Bogoslavets), 1 supervisor of educational and production compex “Gastroatelie”( Y. Andrukhiv), 1 seniorsecretary (N. Kvasnytsya) worked at the division.
Also during this academic year 1 part-time internal professor holding PhD (I. Kalutskyy), 3 part-time internal associate professors holding Candidate of Sciences Degrees (L. Kovalska, V. Shykerynets, V. Gumenyuk) and 1 part-time internal senior teacher (Y. Andrukhiv) were working at the division.
In 2014-2015 academic year 14 teachers and 2 assistants worked at the division.
The division regularly works on improving professional skills of the teachers. Part-time associate professors Shykerynets V.V., Kovalska L.V. and Humenyuk V.V. are working on the final stages of their doctoral dissertations.
Main ways of training lecturers and improving their professional skills are postgraduate study; defense of dissertations; training in leading Ukrainian universities; training in advanced domestic enterprises of hotel and restaurant business; participation in conferences, symposiums and seminars.
All lecturers of the division have improved their qualification according to the training plan in different ways. The above trainings resulted in the publications of texts of lectures, tasks for practical and laboratory classes and individual work of students; introduction of the electronic version of teaching aids, which one can find in the local network of the University. Regular training of lecturers is an important part for improving working plans of courses. It also provides the educational procedures with advanced educational and methodological developments, and generally improves the efficiency of organizing courses.