Concept of sentimental tourism and its classification

Abstract

Upon learning available foreign and domestic scientific publications in the field of sentimental tourism, the authors noted the lack of unity in judgments international researchers. Taking into account the whole of present experience to the problem research nostalgic travels was formed its own concept of the concept of “sentimental tourism”, and similar to the classifications of tourism published by P. Putsenteylo and internal classification of the sentimental tourism Dale Russell; developed the internal classification of sentimental tourism by applying it in a diversity of views of Western scholars on sentimental tours and added to several new own terms. The article are characterized the features of sentimental tourism as a separate type of tourism, propose classification sentimental tourism, international cooperation and strengthening of interstate relations. For the territory of Ukraine most significant resource for the successful introduction and implementation of sentimental tourist tours is the high number of Ukrainian diaspora, which, according to various estimates, is the fourth number in the world. This fact indicates the presence of an extremely broad segment of the consumer market, which is and will be interested in the implementation of sentimental journeys to their own homeland or country of origin of their ancestors in the long run. Among other types of tourism, which attracting European tourists in our country, sentimental tourism at the level of the rural green tourism, requires the least investment for proper customer interest due to the nature of their motivational processes. In this regard, it is appropriate to initiate the review of priority development of this type of tourism, as it is able, at relatively low costs, to increased tourism revenues of the international character and to strengthen of relations with the European Community. Key words: sentimental (nostalgic) tourism; sentimental and territorial tourism, sentimental event tourism, visiting relatives and friends, sentimental domestic tourism, sentimental international tourism, sentimental ethnic tourism, sentimental and cognitive tourism.