Abstract. Reforming of the modern educational system requires a fundamentally new approach to training managers of tourism for their professional career. Active search of ways to improve the educational technologies of training tourism managers focused on the formation of professional competence, development of creative and potential abilities, security of effective conditions for student’s self-improvement in extracurricular activities are made today. The purpose of the article is the grounding of pedagogical conditions of  would-be  tourism  managers’  self-improvement  in  extracurricular  activities.  The  article  analyzes  the  features  of  professional training  of  would-be  tourism  managers.  Pedagogical  conditions  of  would-be  tourism  managers’  self-improvement  have  been grounded. It has been argued that the successful effectiveness of the formation process of the need for professional self-improvement of  future  tourism  managers  depends  on  the  compliance  of  the  following  pedagogical  conditions:  would-be  tourism  managers’ preparedness  formation  for  professional  self-improvement;  phasing  the  process  of  would-be  tourism  managers’  professional  self- improvement; motivation to participate in various forms of extracurricular activities. It has been proved that the basic rules which should be followed in the process of organizing students’ extracurricular activities in the university must be: diversifying forms of extracurricular activities; compliance with the clear content of tasks for students in extracurricular activities; formation of interest in future  professional  career;  stimulation  of  the  need  for  self-development,  self-training  and  self-education.  Prospects  for  further research  are  in  the  development  of  appropriate  scientific  and  methodological  complex  materials,  in  particular  –  guidelines  for teachers concerning the organization of extracurricular activities, improvement of students’ individual work.