Governmental regulation of tourism development in Turkey: experience for Ukraine

Abstract

Turkey has a high level of competitiveness and prerequisites for reaching the leading positions on the world stage of tourist services. It is a result of the effective state tourism policy, which ensures the stable functioning of the organized national market of the tourism industry. Therefore, the analysis of the state regulation of the tourism sphere based on the experience of Turkey is relevant and can contribute to the overcoming of the disadvantages and to the development of strong and unique aspects of tourism national market.The subject of research of the article is the state regulation of tourism in Turkey, which can become an example for the development of tourism in Ukraine. The goal is the analysis of the state regulation of the tourism sphere in Turkey and the development of proposals for improving the state tourism management policy in Ukraine. The objectives are to research the tourism development and the state regulation in Turkey and Ukraine, to determine the possibilities of adaptation of the Turkish Republic experience in practice of the domestic tourism. General scientific methods are used, such as system analysis – to determine the peculiarities of the state regulation of tourism in the Republic of Turkey and in Ukraine, comparative analysis– to characterize the recreational resources, tourism infrastructure, statistical analysis– to review the dynamics and patterns of the tourism development in Turkey and Ukraine.The following results were obtained: on the basis of the analysis the problem aspects and the priority orientations for the reorganization of mechanism of the state tourism regulation in Ukraine based on the experience of Turkey were identified. Conclusions: the experience of the state regulation of the tourism sphere in Turkey should be used as recommendations for determination of the modernized strategy of Ukraine in the world tourist market.