The given article analyzes the competency approach principles in the system of professional training in tourism. In particular, it highlights the problems which in the modern educational space have an inhibiting effect on the process of its realization in practice. The authors discuss the regional systems of continuous education, the professional training of future specialists with reference to the current situation in tourism development and labor market requirements of this field, the satisfaction of employers’ requests, and the labor market situation of the regional system of continuous education. The paper discusses the social factors that determine a systematic approach to the development of regional tourism, multi-level continuous education, which is represented as a set of social factors that, in the present work, is reflected as a phenomenon that represents a complex of education system characteristics in the social environment, based on the interaction between social partners in the region. The authors present the information about the continuous professional tourist training consistency, specified by the complex of socially educational conditions that affects the content, forms and methods of teaching. The close connection with the stages of the educational process and its logic of further development is built. The multi-level continuous professional training system of tourism which combines the basic education institutions is also considered,. A wide range of tourism services requires the general knowledge of specialists working in this field, and the management skills at various levels: from the animator of the hotel complex to the transportation provider. Thus, with the development of a need in tourism business, at least in the last decade, there is a necessity in training the specialists in the economics and management field of the tourism industry