From the point of view of the professional formation, a great part of the specialists consider that tourism needs personnel with a high level of qualification, with a large horizon of knowledge, well trained, knowing a foreign language of international circulation, capable of recommending and promoting the tourist product; also an important segment of the experts in the field appreciate that the activities which do not require a specialty also have large representation in tourism, this becoming an outlet/market for the unqualified and poorly qualified labour (Edgel, 2008).