The most common form of vocational training in Carniola during the Austro-Hungarian period was apprenticeship, a combination of working for masters craftsmen and attending a continual vocational school, which was a lower form of vocational education. The article focuses on the problem of apprenticeship for hospitality workers in Carniola during the Austro-Hungarian period (1867–1918), especially in the final years before the collapse of the monarchy. Events in the field of hospitality training were closely monitored by the professional newspapers Gostilničarski vestnik (1911–1913) and Gostilničar (1914–1931), which play a central role in the article as an exhaustive source of information on the innkeepers’ apprenticeship, and Promet and gostilna (1908–1909) also raised the issue of a vocational school for innkeepers. Ljubljana did not have professional continual vocational schools for innkeepers in this period, even though repeated requests were made, and obtained it only in 1924. With respect to apprenticeship, the two newspapers emphasized the need for establishing a relevant professional school, a requirement for compulsory training for the hospitality profession, which would prevent unfair competition, but were not bold enough when mentioning the problem of too young apprentices. © 2025 The Author(s).
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