The research aimed to study dynamics of the physical fitness status in students of the “Tourism” specialized field during a trans-season stage. Totally 100 university students studying “Tourism” as a business service were involved into the physical fitness testing (48 males and 52 females). A half of the participants studied in the Classic University and another half − in the Sport University. Monthly testing was conducted seven times from September to March using a complex test Kontreks–2. The scoring system consists of eleven indicators: five of them are biomedical: age, body weight, blood pressure, heart rate, reducing pulse; a six – motor: flexibility, speed, dynamic power, power, speed and overall endurance. Linear regression was used with a purpose to study trends of the physical fitness during the trans-season stage. Two-ways ANOVA was used to determine differences between samples. One-way ANOVA with repeated measures was used to evaluate test-retest reliability (ICC=0.094). A significant superiority of students from the Sport University vs. Classic University was noticed during the seven months preparation stage (17.6%, p<0.001) that is important in managing of the sport and healthy active tourism. Despite of this absolute difference, dynamics of these results was rather similar in these two universities (61.3%).

The aim of the research − to analyze the results of a sociological research, where the students’ satisfaction with the content of the physical education system is determined, the elements of sports and health tourism are included in the curriculum and work programs of physical education. 230 first-year students from three universities took part in the survey: Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv National University named after Ivan Franko and Lviv State University of Physical Culture named after Ivan Bobersky. In December 2019-2020 of the academic year of the first semester the survey was conducted using the questionnaire and consisted of 11 questions, three of which were of general content (student data: age, gender; higher education institution, faculty, department; training course) and eight of profile content. As a result of the survey, students’ satisfaction with the content of the physical education system in HEI’s varies. The attitude to the sports and health tourism inclusion in the program of physical education is positive that is indicated. The most attractive types of tourism for students of three. HEI’s turned out cultural and cognitive tourism, hiking and as well as their combination that is pointed out. The students have chosen weekend hikes and specialized training sessions in the gym as the most attractive types of tourism for training that is noted by the authors. Other questions of the profile content of the questionnaire reflected the level of students knowledge in hiking tourism. In general, the obtained results will be used to update the curriculum of sports and health tourism as a component of physical education, that will improve the physical activity of young people in the future.